At 81, Laura McFarling is looking for a job 15 years after retirement because she needs the money.

“Message scam losses are on the rise,” is the headline in a recent edition of the AARP Bulletin. To be sure, in every single AARP publication as well as in Consumer Reports and other magazines, there ...

WILLIAMSPORT — The confirmed loss in a computer hacking scam now exceeds more than $10 million, with some victims losing their life savings or homes, a federal prosecutor says. Assistant U.S. Attorney ...

WILLIAMSPORT — A Chinese national with degrees from Penn State and Cornell is likely to be deported after pleading guilty in a nationwide computer hacking scam that cost victims some $10 million.

Q: What should I do if I fell for a phishing scam? Phishing scams are a low-effort, low-risk, high-payoff process for cybercriminals that focuses on exploiting human behaviors. Instead of trying to ...

Lawrence police said a “Robin Hood” hacker stepped in to help stop a scam in action. The victim is a widow, living in ...

A man in a black hoodie wearing a Guy Fawkes mask sits in a dark room, face lit up forebodingly by his laptop screen. He ...

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Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Hackers are a busy bunch, with more than 300 million computers hacked every year — and there's a dizzying range of ways in which a ...

He’s not a pop star, but Jeffrey Bowie is alleged to have toured staff areas of a hospital in Oklahoma, hunting for computers he could install spyware on. We dive into the bizarre case of the man ...

Scam, 200 block of CR 282, Garrison. A woman said that she provided her debit-card information after someone told her that “her computer was being hacked and he needed $50 to help her get it stopped.” ...