A criminal ring of Nigerian-based romance scammers has been using WhatsApp, Google Hangouts, and online dating sites to help them swindle funds from users. On Wednesday, federal investigators charged 10 US-based suspects for helping Nigerian romance scammers launder funds amassed from their schemes, which pulled in as much as $546,000 from individual victims. The romance […]
Unlucky Trend Micro customers ensnared in the insider hack at the antivirus company are being bombarded with fake tech support calls seeking access to their computers. “The first call seemed very legitimate to me,” one customer named Rona told PCMag. “I almost fell for it.” Rona, who requested her last name be withheld, was among […]
A New York-based company was raided by federal agents on Thursday for allegedly selling insecure, Chinese-made surveillance cameras to the US military. Since 2006, Aventura Technologies has been concealing that its products were made in China while raking in millions through lucrative contracts with the US government and private businesses, the Justice Department alleged in […]
There’s a saying that the biggest security vulnerability is located between the keyboard and the chair, highlighting human fallibility. It’s true, we’re easily tricked, and we’re lazy as a rule. Human failings also bring down perfect systems of security and privacy, which is why clear, moral codes are required to protect those systems. When Apple […]
TikTok’s parent, Chinese company ByteDance, is now facing a national security review over its 2017 acquisition of rival video-sharing app Musical.ly, according to Reuters. The acquisition was significant because TikTok later absorbed Musical.ly’s 60 million US users, propelling its popularity in the US market even further. Now the merger is facing scrutiny from the Committee […]
North Korean malware has reportedly infected a computer at a nuclear power plant in India. The company that runs the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant confirmed on Wednesday that a computer at the site had been hit with malware. “The investigation revealed that the infected PC belonged to a user who was connected in the internet […]
The US government has awarded Microsoft a massive $10 billion contract to run the Pentagon’s cloud network. On Friday, the Department of Defense selected Microsoft for the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure contract, also known as JEDI. As part of the deal, Redmond will supply cloud computing for the Pentagon over the next decade. The JEDI […]
(Brendan Smialowski / Getty Contributor) On August 6, 1945, the US dropped the first atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima, wiping out the city and killing over 80,000 people. Many more died of radiation exposure soon after. Three days later, a second bomb destroyed Nagasaki. World War II ended with the Japanese surrender […]
Ransomware is a rapidly growing and insidious form of digital extortion. Like other malware, it can invade your computer in what looks like a legitimate email or document. You won’t know it’s encrypting your files until it’s done and the demand for payment for decryption arrives. And ransomware, like all things internet, is certainly not […]
A Pew survey found that most US respondents could answer fewer than half the questions when quizzed on technology issues. Most challenging were questions on privacy and cybersecurity. October 18, 2019 9:21AM EST October 18, 2019 When it comes to digital knowledge, most Americans need to do more homework. (Or maybe we’re just bad at […]
