December 23, 2019 Why robocallers and scammers love gift cards Holly Kay bought eight $1,000 Macy’s gift cards at a California mall because a scammer told her to on the Saturday before Thanksgiving. Forty minutes later, she bought $13,000 more in gift cards at that store.
December 23, 2019 ToTok is a spying tool used by the United Arab Emirates: report The popular Chinese-owned video app TikTok is a spying tool used by the United Arab Emirates to track the activities of those who download it, a new report claims.
December 20, 2019 Amazon tracked conference attendees' locations with beacons hidden in badges, report says Amazon, which has its tentacles in everything from e-commerce to cloud computing to streaming video, tracked the location of those who attended one of its recent cloud computing conferences, according to a report.
December 20, 2019 Hidden cameras: Are you being watched? The ubiquity of hidden cameras contributed to a spy cam porn epidemic in South Korea. Now a security expert is revealing “it’s going to be just as bad here.”
December 18, 2019 5 rules for creating and remembering hard to crack passwords Passwords are our first line of defense online, and the sad truth is most of us just aren’t very good at creating strong ones. We use the same weak passwords over and over again, despite knowing better.
December 14, 2019 Concerned mom warns about Ring surveillance cameras after hacker taunted daughter A Mississippi mom is sending a warning to parents everywhere after someone hacked her Ring surveillance cameras in her daughter’s bedroom and talked to her.
December 14, 2019 You’re not paranoid. Your phone really is listening in. The scene plays out like a thriller: you pull out your phone, and you see an ad for AirPods.
December 13, 2019 US video surveillance rivals China's, report says China’s Orwellian video surveillance gets a bad rap but the U.S. isn’t far behind, says a new report.
December 12, 2019 City of Pensacola hit by ransomware attack The city of Pensacola is still grappling with the impact of a ransomware attack over the weekend.
December 9, 2019 RoboKiller: As robocalls grow, the consumer bites back The scariest thing about October 2019 had nothing to do with witches, goblins, or ghouls. Some 5.5. billion robocalls were placed to Americans in October, a 12 percent spike from September, according to data compiled by anti-spam app RoboKiller.
