Facebook publicly acknowledged on Thursday that it’s engaged in a massive struggle with online crime gangs who abuse the service and steal from consumers worldwide. In a blog post, the firm said it had removed two million accounts just this year that had been linked to crime gangs, and was [Keep reading]
ARCHIVE, JULY 17, 2013 — Drive down many highways, boulevards or small side streets in America, and your movements are being noted by electronic cameras. Eyes in the sky controlled by local police departments snap photos of every passing license plate and store the data, sometimes forever. Even the smallest of [Keep reading]
It’s my birthday today, and while that might sound like a desperate plea for attention…it is. This week, we interviewed an adult daughter and son whose father took his own life after becoming embroiled in a crypto/romance scam. “When he had to accept that this is a world where this [Keep reading]
Everyone should be concerned about deepfakes and voice cloning; what’s difficult is deciding how concerned to be. When it comes to the use of AI in crime, I think we have a 5-alarm fire on our hands. I just came back from a week of talks at the University of [Keep reading]
Imagine owning a piece of land — your childhood backyard, in fact — and finding out that a construction company had built a brand new home on it without permission? Then, imagine moving your family across the country into a new rental home, moving in, living there for a while, [Keep reading]
HOBOKEN, N.J. — They say you can die from a broken heart — I’m sure that’s true — and you can really feel that in a place like Hoboken, N.J. on Sept. 11. A quick ferry or train ride from Wall Street, Hoboken is believed to have lost the most [Keep reading]
To paraphrase a long-ago election campaign slogan, “It’s the housing, stupid.” America’s housing market is desperately out of whack. How out of whack? Nearly one in 10 homes in America are now — on paper, anyway — worth $1 million. Congrats, all you millionaires! To rob from rock band Barenaked [Keep reading]
TikTok cannot use federal law “to permit casual indifference to the death of a ten-year-old girl,” a federal judge wrote this week. And with that, an appeals court has opened a Pandora’s box that might clear the way for Big Tech accountability. Silicon Valley companies have become rich and powerful [Keep reading]
Your Social Security number was almost certainly stolen by a hacker. And offered for sale in the Internet’s underground. Again. Don’t be alarmed; just be careful. Thanks to a class-action lawsuit made public earlier this week, we know that a company you’ve never heard of with the cryptic (and now [Keep reading]
You might think your humble social media account would be of no use to multinational crime gangs, but you’d be wrong. Computer criminals have dozens of ways to turn hijacked Facebook, Instagram, TikTok or Twitter accounts into cash…or worse. You’d be stunned how quickly friend-of-friend attacks escalate into massive crime [Keep reading]
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