Image: Maria Diaz/ZDNet iPhone and Mac owners could soon bid farewell to online CAPTCHA challenges that aim to test whether you’re a human.  Instead, they’ll get ‘Private Access Tokens’.  It looks like Apple will be the first to roll out the new technology, which is included in the first betas ...

Pros Wi-Fi 6 and 5G mobile broadband Easy-to-use iOS/Android app Fast, far-reaching wi-fi performance Cons Expensive Security features and parental controls require additional subscriptions Lacks advanced features for IT managers Netgear has an extensive range of premium priced Orbi mesh networking systems that are well designed, easy to use and ...

A Yodel delivery van making a delivery. Image: Getty Delivery company Yodel is experiencing service delays because of what it describes as a “cyber incident” affecting customer services and parcel tracking.  “Yodel has experienced a cyber incident that has caused some disruption. We are servicing customers but tracking is currently ...

Backing up your phone is essential to keep your photos, videos, and even your text messages safe. Our phones go everywhere with us, but just like our keys, they can get lost. Luckily losing your data along with your phone is avoidable.  There are two easy ways to back up ...

Image: Apple My ageing iMac and MacBook Air are both approaching their sunset years, and while the Mac range has been given a shot in the arm with Apple’s home-grown Apple Silicon processors, the 27-inch iMac has now been discontinued, leaving me in something of a quandary as I ponder ...

Image: Getty The US Department of Justice (DoJ) has dismantled the infrastructure of what it described as a Russian botnet consisting of millions of hacked Internet of Things (IoT) devices.  According to the DoJ, RSOCKS was operating as a proxy service, but instead of offering customers IP addresses legitimately leased ...

Nano Calvo/Corbis The memory of “Batterygate” continues to be a thorn in Apple’s side. In case you need a reminder, “Batterygate” refers to a 2016/17 scandal where Apple added an undocumented battery throttling capabilities to iOS 10.2.1 designed to slow the performance of the iPhone if the battery was deemed ...

Image: Getty/Virojt Changyencham Linux users need to be watch out of a new peer-to-peer (P2P) botnet that spreads between networks using stolen SSH keys and runs its crypto-mining malware in a device’s memory.  The Panchan P2P botnet was discovered by researchers at Akamai in March and the company is now ...

Jason Cipriani/ZDNet WhatsApp announced its messaging app was recently updated with the ability to transfer your WhatsApp account and almost all of its history from an Android phone to an Apple iPhone. Apple and WhatsApp worked together to bring the feature to Apple’s Move to iOS app. Technically, it’s still ...

Image: Getty The international police organization Interpol has arrested 2,000 people in a crackdown on social-engineering rackets and intercepted $50 million in illicit funds.  Interpol announced it had conducted raids at 1,700 locations over two months, seizing $50 million in fraudulently gained proceeds and arresting 2,000 people, which it described ...