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Bing, the perennial web search bridesmaid is finally going to encrypt your search data by default.

Not a single industry representative would agree on the most basic premise: that targets of facial recognition should opt in before companies identify them.

Rageaholics, beware: the country's passed laws against swearing, be it online or in person, and that includes F-you emojis.

Unlike Facebook's "Photo Sync" feature, Moments is a separate photo app that doesn't upload anything until you tell it to. Paul Ducklin wonders how much safer you'll be from over-sharing your pics...

UK firm Intelligent Environments has developed an emoji alternative to numerical passcodes used in online banking.

Here's a candidate for the Facebook Hall of Stupid Posts fame: a robber who, though he took the time to wear a mask to cover his face, then posted a thinly veiled confession online.

How to teach 5-year-olds that people online aren't always who they say they are, that older kids don't have to suffer bullying in silence, and much more.

LastPass, a company that makes a popular password manager, just found out that crooks got into its network. But if you picked a proper password, you should be OK...

An online petition by taxi firm Uber had to be pulled after a hacker redirected visitors to rival Lyft's website.

What does the wording about updates being "available automatically" in the Windows 10 Specifications really mean?

An online seller of counterfeit drugs in the UK has been given a 1-year prison term that was suspended for 2 years.

We do not care if a URL's got a .fr, a .uk or a .com glued to the end, France told Google - if a European makes a legitimate request to be forgotten in search results, make it so on all your search engines in all countries.

The victim had been trying to sell an old PlayStation 2 through Facebook, and was contacted by a potential purchaser who turned out to be the mugger. We offer some advice on making offline transactions with people you meet online.

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Join Sophos security experts Chester Wisniewski and Paul Ducklin for this week's security podcast. Apple, Microsoft, patching, hacking the army (sort of), and 49 arrests in a Europol action against bank fraudsters!

A Canadian member of the gang who hacked into the US Army and Microsoft is believed to be the first foreign hacker to be convicted of stealing trade secrets in the US.

As a result of the IRS breach announced in May 2015, changes are afoot in how US tax returns will be authenticated in 2016. Are they enough? Have your say in our poll...

The FTC just settled its first case involving crowdfunding against a man who pocketed $122,000 in contributions on the crowdfunding site Kickstarter without delivering the project - but he's not going to have to pay them back.

Reddit's newly minted anti-harrassment policy has led to the axing of some subreddits but has left other blatantly racist subreddits untouched.