Geoff White
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Love Bug's creator tracked down to repair shop in Manila
Two decades after the world's first major computer virus, an author finds the perpetrator in Manila. → Read More
Meadowhall facial recognition scheme troubles watchdog
Regulator calls for inspections after details of police tie-up with Meadowhall scheme emerge. → Read More
Meadowhall facial recognition scheme troubles watchdog
Regulator calls for inspections after details of police tie-up with Meadowhall scheme emerge. → Read More
Facial recognition tech 'should be dropped over race issues'
Black and minority ethic groups could suffer because of poor police facial recognition tech, say campaigners. → Read More
Child advice chatbots fail to spot sexual abuse
Two leading chat apps also struggled with questions about drugs and bulimia. → Read More
Child advice chatbots fail to spot sexual abuse
Two leading chat apps also struggled with questions about drugs and bulimia. → Read More
UK company linked to laundered Bitcoin billions
BBC investigation discovers shadowy UK company is linked to multi-billion-pound Bitcoin theft. → Read More
Inside the TalkTalk 'Indian scam call centre'
Three whistleblowers reveal details of an industrial-scale fraud operation based in India. → Read More
Inside the TalkTalk 'Indian scam call centre'
Three whistleblowers reveal details of an industrial-scale fraud operation based in India. → Read More
Fancy Bear: who’s behind the group implicated in so many political hacks? –
What do we know about the group known as Fancy Bear? Geoff White of Channel 4 News sifts through the evidence about the hacking group behind some high-profile cyber-attacks → Read More
TalkTalk hack
It was one of the biggest hacks in recent history - more than a million people's sensitive data stolen and tonight - we've got inside information about how it could have been carried out. → Read More
Ashley Madison fallout: blackmail risk
Doctors, secondary school teachers and charity workers are among the paying customers of infidelity dating website Ashley Madison now at serious risk of blackmail after the site was hacked. → Read More
The hackers using government websites to sell dodgy pills
A Channel 4 News investigation exposes the scam artists using .gov.uk web pages to sell unlicensed drugs and counterfeit Rolex watches. → Read More
When did Adult FriendFinder know it had been hacked?
The owners of online dating site Adult FriendFinder were warned that it had been hacked more than two months before Channel 4 News exposed the leak of almost four million peoples sensitive data. → Read More
Adult dating site hack exposes millions of users
Hackers have struck one of the world's largest internet dating websites, leaking the highly sensitive sexual information of almost four million users onto the web. → Read More
One in every thousand tweets is porn
Twitter publishes hundreds of thousands of pornographic images every day, potentially allowing children open access to one of the world's largest stores of explicit photos. → Read More
GCHQ broke the law by spying on UK citizens
GCHQ broke the law in its access to billions of emails and online address books gathered by American spies, the UK's surveillance watchdog has ruled. → Read More
City of London police get power to tap into CCTV
City of London police are to trial a new technology that allows officers to receive CCTV film in real time - an innovation used ahead of French police storming the besieged kosher store in Paris. → Read More
How smartphone adverts can access kids' photos - video
Adverts within smartphone apps downloaded by kids are sometimes able to access huge amounts of their personal data - we found out how. → Read More
Spy cable revealed: how telecoms firm worked with GCHQ
One of the UK's largest communications firms had a leading role in creating the surveillance system exposed by Edward Snowden, it can be revealed. → Read More