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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

Madonna Paul's husband took his own life after a career in the Army. In dealing with the "cruel and "inhumane" Department of Veterans' Affairs, she was forced to retell the story, again and again, the royal commission into defence suicide hears.