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Russia has reportedly blocked access to Western media outlets including the BBC to netizens within its borders, as suspicions rise that the country has begun implementing a "Splinternet" plan to seal itself off from the wider internet. These frequencies can be received clearly in Kyiv and parts of Russia.

BBC R&D discovered it too didn't much like the way personal data was in the hands of the wrong people. You keep your personal data stored on an edge device you control.

A California university which is dedicated solely to public health research has paid a $1.14m ransom to a criminal gang in the hopes of regaining access to its data. The University of California San Francisco paid out in the apparently successful hope that the Netwalker group would send it a decryption utility for its illicitly encrypted files, which it referred to as "Data ... important to some of the academic work we pursue as a university serving the public good".

An email scam from earlier this year has resurfaced on Facebook - don't fall for it!

A mirror copy of the BBC’s international news website is now available to users on the so-called dark web.

Censor-dodging news for those sat in ban-happy countries The BBC has launched a .onion version of its news website on the Tor anonymising network aimed at readers based in countries that ban its services.…

Censor-dodging news for those sat in ban-happy countries The BBC has launched a .onion version of its news website on the Tor anonymising network aimed at readers based in countries that ban its services.…

We're one of 7,000 victims here, firm insists Educational electronics outlet Kitronik has suffered a data breach which its data controller suspects was caused by the same strain of malware that...


In the last couple of days, visitors of a number of highly popular websites have been targeted with malicious adverts that attempted to install malware (mostly ransomware, but also various...