Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Alex Vakulov is a cybersecurity expert focused on consumer security. Online extortion scams, when scammers make threats and ...

WASHINGTON – Hackers have become almost synonymous with large-scale data breaches like the one at Ashley Madison earlier this year, but Frank Grimmelmann said that doesn’t mean cyber criminals are ...

Cyberattacks could lead to big financial losses and even civil or criminal penalties. Learn how your business can reduce the ...

Disaster strikes. One of your employees was tricked into changing the payment account for your business’s largest vendor, sending a series of payments to a fraudulent account. The vendor has now cut ...

An international team of researchers have compiled the first ever World Cybercrime Index, which identifies the United States as one of the globe's most significant sources of cybercrime. The World ...

The Law Reform Commission publishes Cyber-Dependent Crimes & Jurisdictional Issues, a report that recommends the introduction ...

Government officials have claimed in a Parliamentary panel meeting that incidents of cyber-crime are low although lawmakers were not entirely convinced and sought new measures, stronger laws and more ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Cyber crime costs the British economy some 27 billion pounds a year and appears to be "endemic," according to the first official government estimate of the issue published on ...

By making cyber flashing a priority offence, the government is signalling to the regulator and tech firms that it takes this ...