You may use QR codes to look at menus in restaurants. Cyber crooks want to turn that habit into a jackpot. They’re sending out waves of attack emails with QR codes in them, hoping you’ll scan without thinking. Then they’ll try to grab your passwords, data, and money.
Read MoreYou're usually safe to swim in the waters of an official app store. But from time to time, predators find their way in. Here's how to avoid the latest attack apps that can infest your phone with digital sharks.
Read MorePeru gets more than its share of phishing emails. Here are three scam tactics uncovered in fake emails seen in Peru and three ways to protect yourself from these cyber scams.
Read MoreThe future is here. Attackers have begun to use artificial intelligence to write effective and realistic phishing emails, just as security experts predicted. The target here: people at six universities. Now we need to change how we look at suspicious emails to protect ourselves even further.
Read MoreScammers have found an easy way to trick us by sending real PayPal invoices from a real PayPal email address. It's easy for them to do and it can fool you into paying or, even worse, calling to stop the purchase. Here's how it works.
Read MoreThieves are raiding your rewards accounts, looking for air miles and hotel points to steal. They're turning your rewards into their riches, running illegal travel agencies on the underground market. Here's how they get into your accounts and how to stop them.
Read MoreThe attacks come from above, and from the inside, as digital snipers scan Ukraine's energy system for a way in. Here's how Ukraine's energy workers are trying to keep cyber attackers out, all the while dodging missiles and mines.
Read MoreThe attack is coming from inside the printer! A researcher shows how cyber crooks can pose as your printer to attack you and steal your stuff as well as what you can do to stop them. Two small steps can make a big difference and protect your from cyberattacks.
Read MoreWhat is the encabulator? It's a fake machine, a joke that's lived on for nearly 80 years. It became famous as the retro encabulator and the turbo encabulator. Now, there is a new chapter in encabulator history: the hyper encabulator.
Read MoreCyber crooks are trying a clever tactic. They're sending you one email with two different looks, one for your phone and one for your laptop. This phishing strategy might just convince you to click on their scam links. Here's what to look for.
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