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The main phone network in the West Bank and Gaza has suffered a sustained attack by computer hackers, the Palestinian Authority (PA) says. It says most of the Palestinian territory has lost internet service. PA spokesman Ghassan Ghattib said the attacks started in the morning and came from multiple sources around the world. He said he did not know if the hacking was linked to the Palestinian leadership's successful bid to get membership of Unesco on Monday. The move by the UN's cultural and scientific organisation was strongly criticised by Israel and the United States. The US immediately announced it was cutting off all of its funding to UN body. Prolonged lack of access to the internet would prove costly to many Palestinian businesses.

Facebook appears to have U-turned on plans to allow external websites to see users' addresses and mobile phone numbers. Security experts pointed out that such a system would be ripe for exploitation from rogue app developers. The feature has been put on "temporary hold", the social networking firm said in its developers blog.

Experts have been promising for decades to put a robot in everyone's home - and finally robots are beginning to make the transition from specialist to everyday use. Spencer Kelly discovers the similarities between robots used for cleaning and those used by soldiers in Afghanistan for a very different purpose.

When Gadgets Betray Us gives us a glimpse into the secret lives of our gadgets and helps us to better understand-and manage-these very real risks. Technology is evolving faster than we are. As our mobile phones, mp3 players, cars, and digital cameras become more and more complex, we understand less and less about how they actually work and what personal details these gadgets might reveal about us. Robert Vamosi, an award-winning journalist and analyst who has been covering digital security issues for more than a decade, shows us the dark side of all that digital capability and convenience. Hotel-room TV remotes can be used to steal our account information and spy on what we've been watching, toll-booth transponders receive unencrypted EZ Pass or FasTrak info that can be stolen and cloned, and our cars monitor and store data about our driving habits that can be used in court against us.