In a recent email fraud incident, employees in the finance department of a clinical trial software firm based in New York City were conned into wiring $4.8 million to an offshore bank account to ...

My folks are at it again - even after getting scammed out of a few Google Play store gift cards. Got an email from <[email protected]> (fine, I embellished that one) with the following ...

Most of us have heard of, or unfortunately had, viruses on our computer at some point in our lives. An email spoof is a little more inconspicuous but still prominent in the world of computing. The ...

There are numerous email scams that land in your inbox every day, from malware-ridden attachments supposedly from a friend to IRS impersonators to fake invoices from Geek Squad. And what makes many of ...

now to discuss how this sort of thing can happen, since it’s National Cybersecurity Awareness Month. The goal is a safer and more secure online experience. Here’s the story. I have a copy of an email ...

Over the years, scammers have become very inventive in their efforts to swindle you out of your money, privacy, security and sanity. They have pretended to be everything from your family, friends, ...

Email spoofing is forging email so it looks like it came from someone it didn’t. I learned to spoof email in the fall of 1993 during my sophomore year at Northwestern. An upperclassman in my dorm ...

Update (Dec. 19, 8:23 am UTC): This article has been updated to include comments from Ledger’s chief technical officer, Charles Guillemet. Ledger users have reported that phishing scammers are ...

Have you ever received an email from yourself, only you didn’t compose or send it? You can probably guess that this is a cybersecurity issue. What better time than now to discuss how this sort of ...