Year: 2021

Con artists use social media to find and target victims for various nefarious ends, including to extort relatives of missing persons The United States’ Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has issued a warning about the threat posed by scam artists who are attempting to extort families using information about missing family members on social media. The…

The attack is a reminder of growing cyberthreats to critical infrastructure while also showing why providers of essential services are ripe targets for cybercriminals While detractors have argued that threats against physical infrastructure are overstated and largely theoretical, the growing list of organizations that have been successfully attacked suggests otherwise. And now the media is…

An all-new privacy dashboard and better location, microphone and camera controls are all aimed at curbing apps’ data-slurping habits With the upcoming official release of Android 12, Google has outlined a range of security and privacy improvements that users can expect to experience once the new version of the mobile operating system is launched. Android’s new…