In this blog, we look at a recently released report from leading security business Kaspersky that details their malware findings from the past year. They found that Microsoft Office is by far the most attacked bit of software. We look at this report in more detail and ask if there's anything you can do about this.

Google have launched a quick quiz to test your abilitiy to identify a dodgy phishing email. Test your ability to weed out emails with nefarious intent from the genuine ones. It's harder than you might think! We also explain some other things you should consider whenever you get an email.

Over the past few months, we have seen an increase in reports from users about a certain type of spam that we haven't covered in our blogs before. Rather than trying to get you to click something so they can install something nasty on your machine, this variant tries to embarrass you into handing over your details. We provide an example of this and also explain what's going on here and what you should do about it.

In "It was only a matter of time" news this month, it has transpired that an Amazon Echo recorded a conversation a couple were having and sent it on to a 3rd party. The couple in question were entirely unaware that this had happened. What went wrong?

It has recently been discovered that the installer for CCleaner, a very popular program for automatically tidying and freeing up space on a PC, was hijacked for nearly a month in such a way that everyone that installed it was infected with a trojan.

Reports have come flooding in from companies hit by a new strain of ransomware over the past few days. While the attack was concentrated in the Ukraine, it affected machines all over the world, including British advertising agency WPP.

Researchers at Keeper Security have analysed millions of passwords (mostly from the various data breaches of Yahoo and the like that we blogged about last year) to discover which of these are the most common (and therefore the worst).

On the 21st of October, hackers launched an attack that removed several of the most visited websites in the world from the internet. This included sites like Twitter, Paypal, Netflix, Spotify and many many others.