rory cellan—jones, bbc news.me is elizabeth linder, a former executive at facebook, and founder of the firm conservational century, which advises world leaders on how to understand societies changing expectations of them. thanks forjoining us. how long were you with facebook for? eight years. 2000 2016. that was at the time of the 0bama presidency. was fake unease as much of a problem then as it seems to be now? now. to be honest, the first time i really saw fa ke honest, the first time i really saw fake news in full fitting a political environment was when i was doing some civil society training for civil society leaders in north africa after the arab spring,... 2011? then the 2013. a lot of civil societies at the time were worried about the potential impact for fake stories to influence otherwise well—meaning individuals in their countries. but of course, in an u nsta ble countries. but of course, in an unstable environment, especially at a time where the company did not necessarily have staff or understand nec

our technology correspondent, rory cellan—jones, reports.er attack was unprecedented. it was able to affect vulnerable computer systems, and in how it spread across the globe, hitting major public bodies like the nhs, but also individual users and several large multinational companies. the attack was thwarted with what has been described as a master kill switch before it could spread further, but companies that specialise in cyber security say further incidents are almost inevitable. i would say phase one is over, but i would wager there are more phases to come, both in terms of this attack, making sure companies are not vulnerable to this kind of malware, but also secondary attacks. people need to be aware of that possibility. with hundreds of thousands of victims in more than 150 countries, microsoft, which makes the operating systems that we re makes the operating systems that were targeted, says government should treat the attack as a wake—up call. it criticised bodies such as the cia for developing and stockpiling stuck where that could

here's our technology correspondent rory cellan—jones. of his life and were once an escape when he was getting a hard time at school. he enjoys pitting his skills against other players online, but what he doesn't like is the abuse he sometimes gets while playing. he first experienced bullying in games when he was ten and it's not getting any better. if i'm playing a game and i score a goal, i've literally been told to kill myself. if you're being bullied at school, you come home and play your computer and you are just getting more abuse thrown at you. it's just going to put you off doing anything social. the charity ditch the label surveyed 2,500 young gamers. 57% said they had been subjected to hate speech in an online game. 47% had received threats and 40% had had unwanted sexual contact. what's changed over the last decade is that more and more games are played online and that means young gamers are encountering anonymous people from around the world and chatting with them. that can, of course, be very positive, but it also lays them o

rory cellan—jones, bbc news. years. the halifax mortgage lender says prices fell by 0.2% — the first quarterly fall since november 2012. it's blamed a squeeze on household finances, caused by rising inflation. 0ur personal finance correspondent simon gompertz is here. how significant is this? there are reasons for thinking there isa there are reasons for thinking there is a bit ofa there are reasons for thinking there is a bit of a turn here because prices have just got so high, is a bit of a turn here because prices havejust got so high, so many people couldn't afford them, also prices in the shops as you say, energy bills are squeezing families, who can't afford so much. but it sort of depends who you are and where you are, how you are affected and how this turn will affect you. for instance, new—build properties, flats, the source properties first—time buyers want to buy, they will be much stronger, and then there are other parts of the country, there is northern ireland that has been very weak, yorkshire, the

our technology correspondent rory cellan jones has more.ke an attack just on hospitals in the uk but it is now becoming clear this malicious softwa re is now becoming clear this malicious software has run right around the world. many can choose all been hit by what is now a common form of crime. it is a very easy to make money very quickly. you can buy ra nsomwa re money very quickly. you can buy ransomware online, money very quickly. you can buy ra nsomwa re online, it money very quickly. you can buy ransomware online, it is quite cheap. payment systems help you get your money. how does it work? in a rise in an innocuous looking e—mail. when you click on the link, the malicious software is downloaded and locks up all your files. then a message flashes up warning that if you want your data are locked you have to pay a ransom, often in bitcoins. security the hacking tool used in the american security agency may have been used by the attackers. microsoft warned about the threat this vulnerability cause. the worry is that many health service c

rory cellan—jones reports from the innorobo exhibition in paris where the world's leading robotics firmseir creations. from around the world the robots have come to paris to show off their new skills. this one responds to the colour green. it seems to be distracted by the cameraman. and they are leaving the factories and trying to find roles in our everyday lives. basically he has three functions. the first is to monitor people's health. they are after carer. this robot is designed to be a companion, monitoring the health ofan a companion, monitoring the health of an elderly person and alerting relatives if necessary. it will show the mood of the person, where the activity is, if there is no activity you will be alerted. it is like a nurse at home. more and more robots are now appearing in customer service roles. this is essentially the kind of automated ticket machine you see in cinemas already but with a robot interface. i can interact with it. i can pay for my tickets as you would normally and i can also leave a video review and it will react to me in certain ways. they claim it is 30

here's our technology correspondent, rory cellan—jones.t year's american presidential election. fake news stories made up to make money or act as political propaganda. and its facebook which has taken much of the blame for spreading stories such as these. now the social network says it's doing everything it can to tackle the problem in the uk. with these newspaper adverts part of that effort. facebook says it is to bring up the battle against fake news. it is giving its users a guide to spotting what it calls false news, it is closing tens of thousands of fake uk accounts which might spread misinformation, and it is working with fact checking organisations during the election campaign.

from paris, our technology correspondent rory cellan—jones reports.ill go on sale in the autumn. wherever you wiring your home you can summon wherever you wiring your home you can summon it to project television on the wall, play music or make any video call. it is the kind of ambitious project you would expect to come out to look in valley. but this is paris. our start-up is central... this man worked for google before starting kika. he said france's already always had great engineering skills and now this translating into great businesses. the leading engineers come from the great schools we have here in france, one of their goals is to work ina france, one of their goals is to work in a start—up, trade and a start—up or working for a start—up is something that is really seen as exciting. when it comes to building world —class exciting. when it comes to building world—class tech firms, france has an image problem. recipes to be a lot of red tape and a cautious attitude towards investment. but thatis attitude towards investment. but that is changing.

rory cellan—jones, bbc news.ion blind dates, a lunch between two people with very different views. today georgia toffolo, better known as toff from the channel four tv series made in chelsea, met up with anti—austerity campaigner and cookjack monroe. let's see how they got on. ship my name is jack munro and i ship my name isjack munro and i am a food commentator. my name is georgia toffolo and i am known for being ona georgia toffolo and i am known for being on a television show called made in chelsea. you watch television programmes and you see people that i sat there that are clever and can go and work and they choose not to. they choose to go and sign on. it angers me. i don't think there are many. every system is open to abuse but until i was actually in that situation myself, physically freezing, starving, heating turned off, not eating for three days in a row, trying to kill myself and my bottom because i did not want to carry on. i think flat rates of tax are better because it lets you work in the city and

rory cellan—jones, bbc news.n manchester on sunday when ariana grande will appear. the black eyed peas will join ariana grande will appear. the black eyed peas willjoin the line—up which includes an amazing line—up, kerry, justin bieber, take that and coldplay. tickets will go on sale tomorrow at 10am, the proceeds donated to victims and families of those injured. for those who don't get tickets it will be shown on bbc 0ne get tickets it will be shown on bbc one from six until nine on sunday evening and those people who went to the concert or had tickets, they will get free tickets. some say it's too soon to go and that's fine, but if you want to go, picture number into the system. you would imagine they'll have to have quite a robust computer system because you might quite a number of people will be applying. 10am tomorrow, they go on sale, i think you have to preregister today if you are interested. we will clear that up. stargazers in australia and new zealand have been treated to a spectacular show as the sou

more details from our technology correspondent, rory cellan—jones.ig part of his life. and were once an escape when he was getting a hard time at school. he enjoys pitting his skills against other players online. but what he doesn't like is the abuse he sometimes gets while playing. he first experienced bullying in games when he was ten. and it is not getting any better. if i'm playing a game and i score a goal, i have literally been told to kill myself. if you are being bullied at school, you come home and you play computer and you're just getting more abuse thrown at you. it is just going to put you off doing anything social. the charity ditch the label surveyed 2500 young gamers. 57% said they had been subjected to hate speech in an online game. 47% had received threats and 40% had had unwanted sexual contact. what has changed over the last decade is that more and more games are played online. and that means young gamers are encountering anonymous people from around the world. and chatting with them. that can of course be very positive, but it als

rory cellan—jones reports.looked at first like an attack just on hospitals in the uk, but it is now becoming clear that this malicious software has run riot around the world. russia, the united states and many points in between have been hit by what is now a common form of cybercrime. ransomware is becoming the tool of choice for an awful lot of criminals, simply because it is very easy to make money very quickly. you can buy ransomware online for as little as $39. it's quite cheap. at the top end of the market it comes with support and payment systems to help you get your money. so how does ransomware work? it often arrives in the form of an innocuous—looking e—mail. when you click on that link the malicious software is downloaded and spreads rapidly through your network, locking up all the files on it. then a message flashes up on screen is warning that if you want your data and locked that if you want your data unlocked you will have to pay a ransom, often in bitcoin, the virtual currency. the irony is that

well let's get more on this with rory cellan—jones. we should start with what improbable dolls.founded to maggie years ago by two cambridge university computer science graduates. —— founded by two cambridge university computer science graduates two years ago. the gaming businesses don't make much money. this is an early—stage company. it hasn't got a lot of revenue. it has a huge vision. i've been speaking to one of the co—founders, and i was asking why gaming was quite important. where they are going somewhere very exciting. it is when people stop seeing games as a distraction and start seeing them as a source of meaningful experience. the generation coming up, when they go into the experience, which we are hopefully able to power, the relationship with that medium will be different. especially when it comes to time spent and engagement with it. seeing the technology, the powers, that enables us to build a massive scale in the real world. those problems tend to converge with the technological path we are on. from softbank's perspective, that whole spectrum of problems... how si

more details from our technology correspondent, rory cellan—jones.is life. and were once an escape when he was getting a hard time at school. he enjoys pitting his skills against other players online. but what he doesn't like is the abuse he sometimes gets while playing. he first experienced bullying in games when he was ten. and it is not getting any better. if i'm playing a game and i score a goal, i have literally been told to kill myself. if you are being bullied at school, you come home and you play computer and you're just getting more abuse thrown at you. it is just going to put you off doing anything social. the charity ditch the label surveyed 2500 young gamers. 57% said they had been subjected to hate speech in an online game. 47% had received threats and 40% had had unwanted sexual contact. what has changed over the last decade is that more and more games are played online. and that means young gamers are encountering anonymous people from around the world. and chatting with them. that can of course be very positive but it also lays them o

our technology correspondent rory cellan—jones joins me. rules. this is basically a training manual give tonne the thousands of people working as moderators dealing with all the complaints about content. it goesin all the complaints about content. it goes in some detail, that we have not seen before, into how they should make individual decisions. there are some interesting cases. you are not allowed to make a threat of violence against a public figure, you can't say i'm going to kill a world leader, you can probably say i'm going to kill my boyfriend because that is seen as not a credible threat. some violent videos that people might be surprised to see are allowed are permitted to stay up. the idea being that they may actually highlight some issues. all of these incredibly complex and difficult issues for the moderators to deal with. facebook‘s basically accepting the document as genuine saying we work hard to make facebook as safe as possible while enabling free speech, which requires a lot of thought into detail and often difficult ques

the bbc‘s technology correspondent rory cellan—jones has been given access to one course.crime gang, is preparing a cyber attack. his hacker‘s lair has all the tools of his trade but the police are on their way. this is not a traditional forensic operation where you are looking for fingerprints, blood spatters, dna... these police officers are being trained to catch cyber criminals and the hacker in the hotel is today's exercise based on a real case. they're being given the skills to tackle the fastest growing area of crime. some estimates say up to half of all offences are now cyber—related. locate the router, find the router. well, the hacker in room 523 has popped out for a while and the trainee cyber police officers with a search warrant are about to arrive. let's see what evidence they can find. police, stay where you are! anyone here?! they're certainly taking it very seriously. room clear. hang on, i have a usb in the tv. internet enabled, it's not that smarttv so you should be all right unplugging it. the first priority is to make sure all the computers stay powere

our technology correspondent, rory cellan—jones is here. it really depends from city to city.he country. it found variations, they looked at the top 20 cities and at the top game middlesbrough with 83% productivity and right at the bottom came bournemouth where 60% was the figure. and london came pretty far down the list conveyed with middlesbrough, at 74%. overall putting in all the cities and the countryside the average amount of time people were connected to 4g was 65%. so around two thirds, one third of the time people could not get a connection. it is annoying but why does it matter? we're trying to become an advanced, connected nation. 0fcom has set a target of 90% coverage in peoples homes by the of 2017. oft, 90% coverage in peoples homes by the of 2017. 0ft, has a slightly different method of measuring this, from that used by which but it said there are currently about 71% on the way to that target. a long way to go and businesses will say that 4g connectivity is vital if we are to have a prosperous economy in the next decade. one of the uk's few killer whales — which

rory cellan—jones is at one exhibition in paris where the world‘s leading robot firms are showing offrobots are appearing in customer service roles. this is essentially the kind of automatic ticket machine you see in a lot of cinemas already. but with a robot interface. i can interact with it. i can pay for my tickets as you would normally but i can also leave a video review and it reaction in certain ways. they claim it is 30 times more interactive than a standard ordinary ticket machine. do we really want to interact when we are buying a ticket at the cinema? i am not so sure. the big fear is they will take jobs. this autonomous tractor is farmworker of the future. this delivery robot could replace van drivers. the industry claims the robots will improve our working lives. it only takes the part that is really repetitive, tedious or dangerous or not interesting. where we have no humanity value, the humans have more time. these autonomous fish shouldn‘t take anybody‘s jobs and they don‘t need feeding. we are going to have to get used to robots in all sorts of unexpected places. time

rory cellan—jones, bbc news.acron during this campaign, including an allegation a week ago that he had an offshore account in the bahamas. all offshore account in the bahamas. all of that proven to be untrue. the french media were very disciplined in not reporting those e—mails and documents that were hacked from the en marche party that were circulated on the web. you are watching 1oo days plus from bbc news. still to come for viewers on the bbc news channel and bbc world news: we visit the chicago church where half the congregation is undocumented immigrants — it's giving sanctuary to families who could be deported. i'm here in paris, where we are looking at emmanuel macron's first 2a hours as president—elect in france. that's still to come on 100 days plus, from bbc news. the weather has been very dry lately and there is more dry weather on the way for most of this week. there is a change on the way. at the time we get to friday that qb thunderstorms around, but in the short term the weather is looking good. t

here's our technology correspondent rory cellan—jones.n presidential election. fake news stories made up to make money or to act as political propaganda and it is facebook which has taken much of the blame for spreading stories such as these. now, the social network says it is doing everything it can to tackle the problem in the uk but these newspaper adverts are part of these newspaper adverts are part of these assets. facebook says it stepping up the battle against fake news and giving its users a guide to spotting for stories. it's closing tens of thousands of fake uk accou nts tens of thousands of fake uk accounts which might spread misinformation. and it's working with fact checking organisations during the election campaign. there has already been a determined effort in germany to use. the spread of fa ke in germany to use. the spread of fake stories in the run—up to get elections later this year. —— to stop the spread. the main political parties in the uk will be directing much of its advertising budgets at the social network of mo

with me is our technology correspondent rory cellan—jones.tion and considerable backing of this japanese bank? it is an investment organisation rather than a bang, but it is going round the world looking for the brightest technology ideas. it has a lot of money to spend. last year it bought the jewel in the crown of british technology, and this year spitting this huge sum into improbable. it's an extraordinary gamble they are making. you have to stress that. this is at a very early stage. it's an amazing vision you saw outlined there, but they have a lot of work to do before realising it and before proving that people want to live in these virtual worlds use them, and that companies are willing to pay good money to do this kind of thing. what they are basically saying is that virtual reality games we are seeing at the moment are just the beginning of a whole new way of seeing the world and operating in the world. so we're notjust talking about virtual worlds for games here, we're talking about simulations of the real world on a very large sca

here's our technology correspondent, rory cellan—jones.idential election. fake news stories made up to make money or to act as political propaganda and it is facebook which has taken much of the blame for spreading stories such as these. now, the social network says it's doing everything it can to tackle the problem in the uk with these newspaper adverts part of this effort. facebook says it's stepping up the battle against fake news and giving its users a guide to spotting for stories. it's closing tens of thousands of fake uk accounts which might spread misinformation. and it's working with fact—checking organisations during the election campaign. there has already been a determined effort in germany to stop the spread of fake stories in the run—up to its elections later this year. but facebook stands to profit from the general election in the uk. the main political parties will be directing much of their advertising budgets at the social network's audience of more than 30 million people. let's have a look at the weather. very good morni

with me is our technology correspondent rory cellan—jones.hy, will it? as we use our phones more and more for everything this becomes a key issue. notjust for us as individuals but for lots of businesses that are really putting the pressure on to mmp really putting the pressure on to ramp up 4g collectivity. this data that which is using is coming from an unusual method, it is coming from an unusual method, it is coming from an app that lots of people use on the smartphones that tells the company behind it and they pass on to which if you are connected. it measures your uses through the day and tells you if connected and produces this overall picture of two thirds of the time being connected across the uk. big variations. they produced a list of top 20 cities. middlesbrough comes top. and bournemouth comes bottom. middlesbrough comes top. and bournemouth comes bottomm middlesbrough comes top. and bournemouth comes bottom. it is interesting because you assume if you are in a city you will get good coverage but it is not the case. what are the

earlier our technology correspondent rory cellan—jones explained how significant the leak was.r sharing all kinds of material. the company is struggling to keep up with the volume of material and the volume of complaints. they say they get 6 million complaints about fake accou nts million complaints about fake accounts per week. that is one tiny aspect of what it does. this is basically a training manual which has been leaked, given to the moderators in charge of this. it lays out some of the principles. some of them will strike people as strange will stop some will strike people as obvious. videos of violent death to be marked as disturbing. they don't always have to be deleted because they can create awareness. photos of animal abuse can be shared as long as they are marked, disturbing, again for that you can say certain things about ordinary people. you can say, i want to kill my boyfriend and they will decide thatis my boyfriend and they will decide that is not a credible threat. if you say it about a world leader like donald trump, that would be deleted. i think facebook h

a short time ago i spoke to our technology correspondent, rory cellan—jones, and asked him why peoplegot to one billion and everybody wondered at it, what an extraordinary business it is. almost frighteningly strong. it is a third of the world's population. most of these new users are outside north america and europe in developing nations. as more people come online often it seems the first thing they do isjoin facebook. in some parts of the developing world they say the word facebook is almost synonymous with the internet, it is how people associate the internet. the other side of that is it gives this one company extraordinary wealth and power and not everybody is happy. a lot of criticism of the content and they seem to be taking some steps towards policing that. it has been an extraordinary year. facebook has had to face up to the fact of that power. it has wielded that power quite comfortably up until now and ignored criticism, particularly that it is notjust a technology company, that it is a giant media empire and should take more responsibility for what people post on it. it u

rory cellan—jones, bbc news. this programme when victoria will speak to some young gamers who have been at the receiving end of bullying online. olivia newton—john has revealed she has breast cancer again, 25 years after recovering from her original diagnosis. the grease star has postponed her upcoming tour dates after discovering that the disease has spread to her spine. the singer and actress is undergoing treatment, and expects to return to the stage later this year. that's a summary of the latest bbc news — more at 9:30. thank you for your messages already about bullying while gaming. this e—mail says "i've been an avid gamer for years, bullying and harassment is ever present. where young children are playing 18 rated games, ultimately resulting in them being exposed to the behaviour when competition causes friction. however, the simple solution is to joina however, the simple solution is to join a different game session where it may be friendly, or to block horrible people". "my16—year—old brother is autisti

let's talk to our technology correspondent, rory cellan—jones, in central london.o people at the national cyber security centre, what have they said about what happened ? security centre, what have they said about what happened?” security centre, what have they said about what happened? i think we have now moved onto the inquest stage of this, and what i wanted to know was what warnings had been given to nhs trusts, and whether they had acted on them. it seems clear that some did not act on the warning they needed to update their security in march, a warning that was repeated by microsoft in april. the head of the national cyber security centre said in general terms that had been warnings. i don't think there was a specific warning that highlighted this particular thread, but the other interesting thing is what we have heard from microsoft today, that they have played that —— blamed the national security agency for cooking up this exploit, this vulnerability in the laboratories, then having it hacked, leaking out and being used in this attack. don't forget the nsa

let's get more on this now with our technology correspondent, rory cellan—jones.seen a you have seen a screen you have seen a screen grab of the message coming up when health service workers try to get into their computers? it is too early to say what is behind this attack. but it appears to be run somewhere, when malicious software is sent to computers, taking computers in perhaps old software. what it does, it locks their files and then up p°p5 it locks their files and then up pops a message on your screen saying we have all your files locked and this is incredibly valuable data, we can unlock them, but you have to send money. several people have contacted us, including a london gp to say when they have tried to log onto the system, this kind of message has up. saying your files are encrypted, locked and you will have to pay a certain amount of money to get them unlocked. it is the most common tactic of cyber criminals. it has caused huge concern across the world. hospitals have been hit with it before. there are reports that this is a widescale attack hitting a

detectives specialist training to help them catch cybercriminals — the bbc‘s technology correspondent rory cellan—jonesman, who may be part of an international crime gang, is preparing a cyber attack. his hacker‘s lair has all the tools of his trade but the police are on their way. this is not a traditional forensic operation where you are looking for fingerprints, blood spatters, dna... these police officers are being trained to catch cyber criminals and the hacker in the hotel is today's exercise based on a real case. they're being given the skills to tackle the fastest growing area of crime. some estimates say up to half of all offences are now cyber—related. locate the router, find the router. well, the hacker in room 523 has popped out for a while and the trainee cyber police officers with a search warrant are about to arrive. let's see what evidence they can find. police, stay where you are! anyone here?! they're certainly taking it very seriously. room clear. hang on, i have a usb in the tv. internet enabled, it's not that smarttv so you should be all right unplugging it. the first priority is t

this report from our technology correspondent rory cellan—jones.ries made up to make money or to act as political propaganda and it is facebook which has taken much of the blame for spreading stories such as these. now, the social network says it's doing everything it can to tackle the problem in the uk with these newspaper adverts part of this effort. facebook says it's stepping up the battle against fake news and giving its users a guide to spotting for stories. it's closing tens of thousands of fake uk accounts which might spread misinformation. and it's working with fact—checking organisations during the election campaign. what happens if a friend share is what you think is a fake news story with you? it's not blindingly obvious but goya, you go down to report post, i think it shouldn't be on facebook is the choice here. you continue and then you get the option at the bottom that it's a fake news story and once you've done that it should end up with an independent fa ct should end up with an independent fact checking organisation. 0ne should en

a short time ago i spoke to our technology correspondent, rory cellan—jones, and asked him why people to a billion people, and people wondered what an extraordinary business it is, almost frighteningly strong, bigger than some nations, but now is a third of the world's population, getting on for. most of the new users outside north america and europe, in developing nations. as more people come online, often it seems the first thing they do is join facebook. in some parts of the developing world they say facebook is the word that is synonymous with the internet, that is how they associate the internet. the other side, a gives this one company extraordinary wealth and extraordinary wealth and extraordinary power and not everyone is happy with how it uses it. a lot of criticism of the content and they seem to be taking some steps towards policing that content. it has been an amazing year for facebook. they have had to face up to the fact of that power. it has wielded that power quite easily until now, ann conlon ignored criticism, especially ignored the criticism that is not just a techn

our technology correspondent, rory cellan—jones told us more about the findings.nd right at the top came middlesbrough with 83% connectivity. right at the bottom of those 20 came bournemouth, where 68% was the figure. and london came pretty far down the list compared with middlesbrough, it was at 74%. overall, if you put in all the cities in all the countryside, the average amount of time people were connected to 4g was 65%, so about two thirds. a third of the time, people can get a connection. annoying if you can't get a connection, but why does it matter other than that? we are trying to become an advanced connectivity nation. ofcom have set a target of 98% coverage in people's homes, that's the key thing, by the end of 2017, by the end of this year. ofcom has a different method of measuring this from the ones used by which?, but says we 71% on the way to that 98%. a long way to go this year. and businesses will tell you that faulty connectivity is vital if we are to have a prosperous economy in the next decade. it is ten years ago today that 3—year—old madelein

this report from our technology correspondent rory cellan—jones.hich has taken much of the blame for spreading stories such as these. now, the social network says it's doing everything it can to tackle the problem in the uk with these newspaper adverts part of this effort. facebook says it's stepping up the battle against fake news and giving its users a guide to spotting for stories. it's closing tens of thousands of fake uk accounts which might spread misinformation. and it's working with fact—checking organisations during the election campaign. what happens if a friend shares a report that you think is fake news. you go down to report, i think it shouldn't be on facebook, then you get the option right at the bottom of fa ke get the option right at the bottom of fake news story. once you have done that, it should end up with an independent fact checking organisation. but one of those organisations thinks the social network needs to do more. there is a responsibility for facebook to look at how do we change facebook itself to make it easierfor peo

here's our technology correspondent, rory cellan—jones.t like an attack just on hospitals in the uk. it is now becoming clear this malicious softwa re is now becoming clear this malicious software has run riot around the world. russia, the united states and many points in between have been hit by what is now a common form of cyber crime. ransomware has become the tool of choice for lots of criminals super because it is easy to make money very quickly. you can buy a ransom on life as little as $99. $0 buy a ransom on life as little as $99. so how does it work? it buy a ransom on life as little as s99. so how does it work? it often arise in the form of a link in an innocuous looking email. when you click on that link the malicious softwa re click on that link the malicious software is downloaded and spreads rapidly through your network, locking up the files on it. then a message flashes up on the screen warning that if you want your data unlock, you will have to pay a ransom, often in bitcoin, a virtual currency. the irony is that security e

more details from our technology correspondent, rory cellan—jones. a hard time at school. he enjoys pitting his skills against other players online. but what he doesn't like is the abuse he sometimes gets while playing. he first experienced bullying in games when he was ten. and it is not getting any better. if i'm playing a game and i score a goal, i have literally been told to kill myself. if you are being bullied at school, you come home and you play computer and you're just getting more abuse thrown at you. it is just going to put you off doing anything social. the charity ditch the label surveyed 2500 young gamers. 57% said they had been subjected to hate speech in an online game. 47% had received threats and 40% had had unwanted sexual contact. what has changed over the last decade is that more and more games are played online. and that means young gamers are encountering anonymous people from around the world. and chatting with them. that can of course be very positive but it also lays them open to the kind of dangers we have seen elsewhere in

specialist training to help them catch cybercriminals — and the bbc‘s technology correspondent rory cellan—jonesmay be part ofan in a hotel room, a man who may be part of an international crime gang is preparing a cyber attack. his lair has all the tools of his trade and the police are on their way. but this is not a traditionalforensic operation where you look for fingerprints... these police officers are being trained to catch cyber criminals and the hacker in the hotel is the exercise today, based on a real case. they have been given the skills to tackle the fastest—growing area of crime. some estimates say that up to half of all offences a re estimates say that up to half of all offences are now cyber. the hacker in this room has popped out for a while and the trainee officers are about to arrive. let's see what evidence they can find. stay where you are! we have a warrant! they are taking it seriously. ring clear! it's not a smart tv, so you should be ok to unplug that. the first priority is to make sure that all the computers stay powered up and do not lock after a certain time. that way t

let's speak to rory cellan—jones. and doctor rachel o'connell, an internet safety expert. en freelancers, outsourced to different companies, and they are given this course. what is clear is the line that they have to tread between free speech and content which is going to be incredibly offensive to a lot of people. one interesting thing, if you say that someone should trump, that would be deleted. if it is aimed asa that would be deleted. if it is aimed as a head of state, it is seen as illegal. if you say you want to kill your boyfriend, believed that up kill your boyfriend, believed that up because you do not say that —— because that does not appear credible. a lot of people will find this disturbing, but if you put videos of physical abuse to children, nonsexual physical abuse, even that may be allowed up as long as it is not seen as celebrating sadism. so a lot of difficult winds to tread, and what this says to me is that this is the biggest problem facebook faces, and it is exactly the same kind of problem that a media company faces every day. at the bbc and other big

our technology correspondent rory cellan—jones is here. that has been leaked, given to the moderators in charge of this and laying out some of the principles. some of them will strike people as strange, some of them will strike people as obvious. videos of violent death can be marked as disturbing but they do not a lwa ys marked as disturbing but they do not always have to be deleted because they can create awareness, photos of annable —— animal abuse can be shared as long as they are marked disturbing. you can say certain things about ordinary people, you can say, i want to kill my boyfriend and they will decide that that is not a credible threat, if you say it about a world leader, if you said it about a world leader, if you said it about donald trump, that would be deleted. so we've now got a glimpse as to what is going on inside facebook. people are unhappy, there‘s criticism persistently about there‘s criticism persistently about the decisions taken, is anything likely to change? they are employing another 3000 people in this huge tas