How the Tools Used for Celebrity Deepfakes Can Steal Your Identity, Too
There’s a longstanding piece of advice that says: “You can’t believe anything you hear, and only half of what you see.” There’s always been an element of truth to that,…
There’s a longstanding piece of advice that says: “You can’t believe anything you hear, and only half of what you see.” There’s always been an element of truth to that,…
Criminals, like legitimate businesses, target different market niches. Consider the difference between a luxury car dealership’s showroom, with its jewel-like vehicles and perfect lighting, and that used car lot with…
It’s a nearly universal childhood experience: standing in front of an authority figure — your principal at school, a famously stern grandparent, your own parents at the end of their…
When your phone rings, what’s your initial response: to answer it or to check first and see who’s calling? For many of us — probably most of us — it’s…
Not so very long ago, there were a lot of headlines about a type of data theft called “skimming.” Criminals added their own illicit data-capture devices to legitimate ATM or…
Your Social Security number was never originally intended to serve as a piece of general-purpose identification — in fact, it was explicitly meant not to fill that niche — but,…