By Heather Sheppard. It’s 3 AM. The server logs flicker. Your firewall hisses. All is not well. Somewhere in the digital shadows, a hacker is creeping, sniffing around, preparing to strike. Welcome to cybersecurity’s cybersecurity horror stories – a haunted house, where the monsters gouge out your data with vicious keystrokes. This Halloween, to chill … Read more
For our Halloween blog this year we’re taking the focus off the spooks themselves and spinning the camera round to look at the people who seek them. For as long as there have been humans, there have been spook-seekers. People have always had a fascination with all things spiritual. Some of the very earliest human … Read more
Our last ‘spooky tech’ blog was silly. A delightful haunted MacBook from the USA which ultimately ended up helping the family with rap battles and the hoovering. Honestly, we thought it was a bit too silly. So we asked our writer to find something creepier. Evidently peeved by our request, Heather (another Heather. We know, … Read more
It’s that time of year when we ask our writer to dig out spooky stuff with a techie twist. Last year, she found some properly creepy stuff lurking in the dusty corners of the internet. This year, she’s gone a bit…dare we say it?…sillier? Maybe we’re wrong. Maybe we should issue a warning here. If … Read more
It’s spooky season. And what could be spookier than the internet? Don’t believe us? You should. There are plenty of creepy things lurking in the internet’s dusty corners. And we don’t just mean your ex’s OnlyFans account. We bet you think you’re nice and safe, sat behind your screen in your own home. But these … Read more