The Latest Breaking News from Alan Woodward

Cybersecurity expert suggests M&S likely ‘turning over every rock and making sure there’s nobody still in’ its system

A closer look at the app used by top officials to discuss a Yemen bombing mission despite it not being approved for such purposes

Senior figures suggest a foreign state, others believe a political insider is the more likely culprit

Leaked files shows range of services offered and bought, with data harvested from targets worldwide

The most secure RSA encryption can now be cracked using a smartphone or PC, according to a new highly-contested scientific paper.

In this week’s newsletter: The social media network is putting its APIs – the under-praised tool that keeps the internet as we know it going – behind a paywall. And the ramifications are huge

Harvesting data is the norm for social media apps, but the question that many have is where it goes and who has access to it

Cybersecurity specialists raise concern over potential for claims about integrity of leadership ballot

BBC's digital surveillance thriller The Capture, starring Holliday Grainger and Paapa Esseidu shows an increasingly real threat cybersecurity expert Professor Alan Woodward says - adding it will soon be impossible to ­distinguish between real and fake videos, even live ones