For many years, the primary method of two factor authentication for online accounts has been via text message. You provide your mobile number, then you get a code sent to your phone that you input so that even if someone knows your password, they still can't access your account. Google is the latest company to begin to actively move people away from that approach for security reasons.

We're all used to cookie banners on websites at this point, although anyone that doesn't just ignore them or hit accept regardless may have noticed they can be very devious in trying to get you to accept cookies you didn't mean to. The UK's Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) is now going to be more hardline on what is allowable here.

Google have now added themselves to the growing list of companies that support passkeys - a new way of logging in to your account that requires no password whatsoever. In this article, we look at how you can switch to this method and whether you should.

A spokeperson for Meta's hugely popular WhatsApp messaging service has indicated that the UK is at risk of losing access to the service if it does not shelve changes proposed in the long-gestating Online Safety bill. For those of us that have been watching closely, this is not a surprise...

Another month, another thing to add to the list of threats to be aware of when browsing around online. This time, researchers have found a greatly increased prevalence of what is being called "MalVirts" when searching for popular software downloads using Google. So, what is a MalVert?

There's been a low-level murmur that passwords will be a thing of the past for some time now. Yet still, we dutifully create (and forget) increasingly complex strings with the looming threat of our entire online identities being stolen if someone guesses it. At last, those days may be numbered.

Google have announced changes coming to all Google Drive users in a recent blog. This may or may not be big news for you depending on what you use Google Drive for. In certain circumstances you may find files that you're trying to share or trying to download have been locked.

If you haven't done it already, you may have noticed prompts to enable two factor authentication for your Google account when signing into their services. Anyone still holding out on doing this will find that it will be enabled whether they like it or not in the next few weeks.

In "barely noticable but quite important" news, users of Google's Chrome brower will be familar with the padlock icon that displays next to a website address when it's using a secure connection. This will not be the case soon. We explain what will be changing and why in this blog.

As anyone that has tried to use their WhatsApp account on a device other than the actual mobile phone it is registered to will already know, trying to use that account on other devices can be fiddly and requires the phone to always be on and in range. This won't be the case for much longer...