After Jeff Bezos’s phone was compromised by a malicious video sent via WhatsApp, it hopefully got all of you thinking about your own phone security and thinking how easily you could be hacked. There are lots of tools, tips and tricks to put in place to best protect WhatsApp’s two billion users from cybercriminals, but the truth … More Hey there! Are you using WhatsApp? Your account may be hackable

On Monday, this was my office for the day. I loved it. No one around, peaceful and I was excited at the prospect of working remotely from wherever I could find a spot in the coming weeks. I live near the beach so if the government ask me to social distance myself, who am I … More An Englishman’s Home Is His Office

We have all heard that our phones could be listening to our everyday conversations in order to then bombard us with targeted adverts. Is there any truth to the matter, though? Have you ever tested this theory and talked about an obscure product with friends and then waited patiently to see whether an advert for … More Is your phone listening to you?

Many people ask me about what it was like working for law enforcement. More often than not, however, they are actually enquiring about how computer crime is truly investigated. Whether it’s questions about how accurately it is portrayed on TV, the constraints felt by the police, the associated myths, or about how to find closely … More How To Catch A Cybercriminal: Tales From The Digital Forensics Lab

Deepfakes are rapidly becoming easier and quicker to create and they’re opening a door into a new form of cybercrime. Although the fake videos are still mostly seen as relatively harmful or even humorous, this craze could take a more sinister turn in the future and be at the heart of political scandals, cybercrime, or … More Deepfakes – Seeing Isn’t Believing