UK police have issued a warning to educational establishments to be vigilant, following an alert by Action Fraud that fraudsters are targeting UK schools with ransomware in order to demand big payments.

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Amazon Echo gadgets in homes across the city of San Diego on the West Coast of the US were activated by a comment make by a TV presenter.

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The outgoing US President Obama has commenced the public aspects of retaliation for the alleged Russian hacking of (and interference with) the US presidential election by expelling 35 Russian diplomats from the country.

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News has surfaced of a patent that’s reported to have been filed by Amazon back in December 2014 for a flying warehouse, or airborne fulfilment centre (AFC), that can use unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) to deliver items to users.

The patent has been recently unearthed and reported via Twitter by analyst Zoe Leavitt from CB Insights, who described the idea as ‘the Death Star of ecommerce”.

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A report by IDC has revealed that the fact that water damage is common and yet it is not covered by insurance policies is the reason why sales of water resistant mobile devices have increased so significantly in 2016.

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The growing optimism for the future of the web-based crypto-currency ‘Bitcoin’ received another boost this week as the value of 1 Bitcoin jumped above $1,000 (£815) for the first time in three years.

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Dubai’s commitment to putting all its documents on Blockchain’s shared open database system by 2020 could help to cut through Middle Eastern bureaucracy, speed up civic transactions and processes, and could help bring a positive transformation to the whole region.

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BT Broadband has the dubious honour of making it to the Christmas No.1 spot… for customer complaints. Figures from Ofcom from the third quarter of 2016 make grim reading for BT and for other Broadband companies that it owns.

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As if the data breach of 500 million users’ accounts in 2014 wasn’t bad enough, Yahoo has just discovered that it was the subject of the biggest data breach in history when, back in 2013, more than one billion user accounts were compromised.

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With the massive amounts of household, leisure items and toys that have a ‘smart’ element to them, could any of the IoT presents that you receive or give this Christmas be taken over and used by hackers in 2017?

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