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Backbytes: Digital goods - here today, expunged tomorrow
Backbytes: Digital goods - here today, expunged tomorrow

Games company Electronic Arts demonstrates how digital goods work - and how easily they are taken away

  • Cloud and Infrastructure
  • 31 October 2016
Backbytes: Kremlin gets into a GPS jam in Moscow
Backbytes: Kremlin gets into a GPS jam in Moscow

Muscovites have to resort to roadmaps to get around the Russian capital

  • Security
  • 24 October 2016
How Dan Wagner Powa'd through £144m of other people's money
How Dan Wagner Powa'd through £144m of other people's money

How not to run a company: Administrator's report into Dan Wagner's Powa makes for devastating reading

  • Cloud and Infrastructure
  • 19 April 2016
The entrepreneurial Powa of Dan Wagner
The entrepreneurial Powa of Dan Wagner

How the company that was going to be bigger than Google burned through $225m and crashed in just three years

  • Mobile
  • 08 March 2016
 Amazon Web Service's Ts & Cs upgraded for zombie apocalypse
Amazon Web Service's Ts & Cs upgraded for zombie apocalypse

AWS EULA keeps all bases covered

  • Cloud and Infrastructure
  • 11 February 2016
Backbytes: Samsung scrapes the bottom of the barrel with internet-connected fridge
Backbytes: Samsung scrapes the bottom of the barrel with internet-connected fridge

Samsung will 'cement the refrigerator's position as the centre of the kitchen'... Oh dear

  • Gadgets
  • 06 January 2016
Backbytes - Economist anti-adblocking tool infected PCs with malware
Backbytes - Economist anti-adblocking tool infected PCs with malware

Visited the Economist website recently? Updated Adobe? Time to do a full anti-virus scan...

  • Security
  • 06 November 2015
Backbytes: Open-source developers targeted in honeytraps, claims Eric Raymond
Backbytes: Open-source developers targeted in honeytraps, claims Eric Raymond

'Deliberately planned and persistent campaign to frame Linus and feed him to an outrage mob' - Raymond

  • Open Source
  • 04 November 2015
Top-of-the-range Microsoft Surface Book, sir? That'll be $3,199
Top-of-the-range Microsoft Surface Book, sir? That'll be $3,199

Microsoft demands arm, leg, shirt off back AND your first-born for its new Surface Book

  • Hardware
  • 21 October 2015
Backbytes: How software companies are losing friends and alienating customers
Backbytes: How software companies are losing friends and alienating customers

Far from trying to hold on to their customers, big software companies seem to be trying to wring them even harder

  • Software
  • 06 October 2015
Backbytes: How Sanmay Ved became the new owner of Google.com
Backbytes: How Sanmay Ved became the new owner of Google.com

And at the bargain price of just $12!

  • Internet
  • 05 October 2015
Backbytes: VW covering things up? It wouldn't be the first time...
Backbytes: VW covering things up? It wouldn't be the first time...

VW didn't want anyone to know how easy their cars are to steal

  • Software
  • 05 October 2015
Backbytes: Carly Fiorina. Hobson's choice for president?
Backbytes: Carly Fiorina. Hobson's choice for president?

Fiorina's business record doesn't really stand up to close scrutiny

  • Public Sector
  • 02 October 2015
Backbytes: Fraudster's attempt to use 'right to be forgotten' backfires with £30k legal bill
Backbytes: Fraudster's attempt to use 'right to be forgotten' backfires with £30k legal bill

Jailed in 2007 over a £51m VAT scam, convicted fraudster Malcolm Edwards fails in bid to have news reports of his crimes erased

  • Internet
  • 06 August 2015
Backbytes: You say "Anunak", I say "Carbanak"...
Backbytes: You say "Anunak", I say "Carbanak"...

Kaspersky out-PRs Fox-IT over Russian cyber bank-robbers

  • Security
  • 16 February 2015
Backbytes: Scotland's government resurrects national ID card scheme
Backbytes: Scotland's government resurrects national ID card scheme

One identity database to rule them all under SNP plan encompassing child informants

  • Public Sector
  • 10 February 2015
Backbytes: Guess who's looking for security specialists? Why, Moonpig...
Backbytes: Guess who's looking for security specialists? Why, Moonpig...

Embarrassingly hacked gift card site pulls advert seeking security staff

  • Security
  • 06 January 2015
If you've been hacked, and nothing else is secure, you need an, err, old BlackBerry
If you've been hacked, and nothing else is secure, you need an, err, old BlackBerry

Sony Pictures unlocks a stash of old BlackBerrys for secure communications after Guardians of Peace hack

  • Security
  • 05 January 2015
Backbytes: Big Brother is watching what you eat
Backbytes: Big Brother is watching what you eat

Apple iBeacons to be used by US Department of Health to harass staff into healthier eating.

  • Public Sector
  • 01 November 2014
Backbytes: Strict liability offences - they're grrrrrreat!
Backbytes: Strict liability offences - they're grrrrrreat!

Charges against bus driver accused of receiving 'extreme pornography' dropped when Crown Prosecution Service admitted the video was a fake

  • Internet
  • 27 October 2014
Backbytes: America - a nation of online trolls
Backbytes: America - a nation of online trolls

One-quarter of Americans admit to being online trolls - terrific work, America!

  • Internet
  • 27 October 2014
Backbytes: David Davis MP has a Twitter account of a different kind
Backbytes: David Davis MP has a Twitter account of a different kind

Are you on Twitter? Sort of...

  • Internet
  • 24 October 2014
Backbytes: Apple and Facebook with frozen egg on faces
Backbytes: Apple and Facebook with frozen egg on faces

Silicon Valley companies pay for female staff to freeze their ova

  • Internet
  • 15 October 2014
Backbytes: Apple offers one-click U2 removal after Bono backlash
Backbytes: Apple offers one-click U2 removal after Bono backlash

Apple CEO Tim Cook is clearly the last U2 fan on Earth

  • Gadgets
  • 16 September 2014
Backbytes: Doom for Canon printers!
Backbytes: Doom for Canon printers!

Internet-connected Canon Pixma printers cracked by security company - and modified to play Doom

  • Security
  • 12 September 2014
Backbytes: A year too late, MPs realise that the UK's smart meters are a waste of money
Backbytes: A year too late, MPs realise that the UK's smart meters are a waste of money

MPs finally work out that the UK's Smart Metering Implementation Programme is an expensive waste of time that will be obsolete before its rolled out

  • Public Sector
  • 10 September 2014
Backbytes: Use a VPN? You're probably a filthy pirate, BBC tells Australian government
Backbytes: Use a VPN? You're probably a filthy pirate, BBC tells Australian government

BBC tells Australia to police internet users more closely - and make the ISPs pay for it

  • Internet
  • 09 September 2014
Backbytes: Google tests drones, start digging your bunker
Backbytes: Google tests drones, start digging your bunker

'Project Wing' gets its first public flight, but how much of our lives does Google want to control?

  • Mobile
  • 29 August 2014
Backbytes: Two per cent of electorate register to vote online, government congratulates itself
Backbytes: Two per cent of electorate register to vote online, government congratulates itself

Digital reform still sees government sending out letters confirming online registration

  • Government
  • 27 August 2014
Backbytes: Top Gear and porn - what North Korean internet users are downloading
Backbytes: Top Gear and porn - what North Korean internet users are downloading

Anything that launches Guardian readers into fits of splenetic, spittle-flecked rage is good with us

  • Internet
  • 15 August 2014
Backbytes: iPads not welcome here. Good
Backbytes: iPads not welcome here. Good

Manchester United bans iPads from the "theatre of dreams". About time, too

  • Gadgets
  • 12 August 2014
Backbytes: Braintree GP surgery's zero-tolerance of social-media whiners
Backbytes: Braintree GP surgery's zero-tolerance of social-media whiners

"Rude" people complaining online given warning by Braintree practice manager

  • Internet
  • 12 August 2014
Backbytes: Unhackable Blackphone, err, hacked
Backbytes: Unhackable Blackphone, err, hacked

$829 'secure' smartphone rooted in five-minutes flat at DefCon security conference

  • Security
  • 12 August 2014
Backbytes: Is Uber trying to drive its rivals out of business?
Backbytes: Is Uber trying to drive its rivals out of business?

That old trick of ordering a pizza or a cab for some unsuspected chump is never quite so funny when you're found out...

  • Internet
  • 12 August 2014
Backbytes: One billion passwords cracked! Pay $120 to find out if you're affected...
Backbytes: One billion passwords cracked! Pay $120 to find out if you're affected...

Is there really a Russian gang that has seemingly cracked 1.2 billion user names and passwords? Really???

  • Security
  • 06 August 2014
Backbytes: Someone sent you some unsolicited smut? You may be prosecuted for it
Backbytes: Someone sent you some unsolicited smut? You may be prosecuted for it

How to get someone you don't like into trouble: just send them some filth and call the police

  • Internet
  • 06 August 2014
Backbytes: First, they came for the bloggers...
Backbytes: First, they came for the bloggers...

Inspired by Leveson, Russian law obliging bloggers to register with state regulator comes into force today

  • Internet
  • 01 August 2014
Backbytes: Black Hat to the NSA - 'Your name's not down, you're not coming in'
Backbytes: Black Hat to the NSA - 'Your name's not down, you're not coming in'

For some reason, the NSA has become less welcome at security conferences...

  • Security
  • 01 August 2014
Backbytes: Nostalgic for the 1980s? Good news - the new ZX Spectrum will be launched imminently
Backbytes: Nostalgic for the 1980s? Good news - the new ZX Spectrum will be launched imminently

Are you missing 256×192, eight-colour graphics? Throw away your PC and buy a ZX Spectrum instead

  • Gadgets
  • 01 August 2014
Backbytes: Russia offers FOUR MILLION RUBLES to unravel Tor
Backbytes: Russia offers FOUR MILLION RUBLES to unravel Tor

Russia's interior ministry offers to make ruble millionaires out of anyone who can crack Tor

  • Security
  • 28 July 2014
Backbytes: Paypal-using merchant? Strapped for cash? Just take it - it's a feature, says Paypal
Backbytes: Paypal-using merchant? Strapped for cash? Just take it - it's a feature, says Paypal

Paypal 'bug' that enables merchants to take unlimited amounts from accounts is a feature, not a bug, according to Paypal

  • Internet
  • 23 July 2014
Backbytes: Government plans to license porn on a global scale
Backbytes: Government plans to license porn on a global scale

The mind boggles: Latest criminal justice bill contains ambitious plan for the UK to license every porn site in the whole world.

  • Internet
  • 22 July 2014
Backbytes: Say "hello", wave goodbye
Backbytes: Say "hello", wave goodbye

Stephen Elop touts Microsoft's terrific "severance benefits" in email to staff

  • Software
  • 18 July 2014
 Backbytes: Wall Street's crackdown on, err, software engineers
Backbytes: Wall Street's crackdown on, err, software engineers

Software engineer? Work for a hedge fund? Want to move to another one? It'll be JAIL time for you, Sonny-Jim

  • Developer
  • 18 July 2014
Backbytes: Fight! Fight! Fight!
Backbytes: Fight! Fight! Fight!

Who's more secure, BlackBerry or Blackphone? There's only one way to find out...

  • Mobile
  • 17 July 2014
Backbytes: ICO gets hacked. Investigates itself. Will probably decide to be lenient
Backbytes: ICO gets hacked. Investigates itself. Will probably decide to be lenient

The question is, how much will it fine itself?

  • Security
  • 16 July 2014
Backbytes: I have seen the future - it's a Triumph Adler typewriter
Backbytes: I have seen the future - it's a Triumph Adler typewriter

First the Russians, now the Germans

  • Security
  • 16 July 2014
Backbytes: Google's Ad nonSense?
Backbytes: Google's Ad nonSense?

The advertising-strewn heart of Google, AdSense, is slowing down as more and more users block of ignore ads. Shame...

  • Internet
  • 15 July 2014
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