Facebook-owner Meta must minimise the amount of people's data it uses for personalised advertising, the EU’s highest court says.The Court of Justice for the European Union (CJEU) ruled in ...

The crisis in the Middle East continues to escalate, with increased missile attacks between Hezbollah in Lebanon, and Israel. BBC Verify’s Richard Irvine-Brown has been looking at what the ...

Getty ImagesViolent crime is one of the key issues in the US election, with research suggesting that many Americans believe it is on the rise.But the latest FBI crime ...

LinkedIn has suspended the use of UK user data to train its artificial intelligence (AI) models after a regulator raised concerns.The career-focused social networking site, owned by Microsoft, quietly ...

Data centres in the UK are to be classified as critical national infrastructure, joining the emergency services, finance and healthcare systems, and energy and water supplies.It means they would ...

The Police Ombudsman for Northern Ireland (PONI) has apologised for a data leak incident involving 160 current and former staff.A document containing some of their personal details was “inadvertently ...

3 hours agoBy Chris Baraniuk, Technology ReportersurfMission accomplished for Edwin Verheul (left) and Joachim OpdenakkerAs IT updates go, this was about as nerve-wracking as things can get.In February, deep inside a ...

NHS England has confirmed its patient data managed by blood test management organisation Synnovis was stolen in a ransomware attack on 3 June.Qilin, a Russian cyber-criminal group, shared almost ...

A gang of cyber criminals causing huge disruption to multiple London hospitals has published sensitive data stolen from an NHS blood testing company.Qilin has been trying to extort money ...

4 hours agoBy Ben Morris, Editor, BBC Technology of BusinessBBCIan Crawford oversees the archiving of Imperial War Museum mediaThe year 2039 might seem like a long way off, but Ian Crawford ...

Ros DoweyMurray Dowey took his own life aged 16The mother of a teenager who ended his life after becoming the victim of a sextortion gang on Instagram says Meta ...

Hackers are attempting to sell what they say is confidential information belonging to millions of Santander staff and customers.They belong to the same gang which this week claimed to ...