A retired lawyer lost the money in a tech support scam, a type of online fraud that is surging. Citibank said it couldn’t recover the funds, which criminals wired from inside his account. David Welles ...

Palash has been writing about technology (and entertainment) for over a decade. His focus has been on the evolution of computing, ranging from smartphones to PC builds and everything in between. You ...

A home phone could be the only thing keeping you connected to the world when there's a massive mobile outage. Ian Sherr Contributor and Former Editor at Large / News Ian Sherr (he/him/his) grew up in ...

The San Joaquin County District Attorney’s Office is warning residents that scammers are posing as the FBI, other government agencies or tech support representatives to scare victims into ...

In short, when you see SOS on your phone, it means you're not connected to a cellular network. "If you see SOS or 'SOS only' ...

BigBear.ai has purchased technology from customs software company CargoSeer for an undisclosed amount. The McLean, Va.-based national security artificial intelligence company on Wednesday said ...

With AI fueling new schemes, scams have become a booming business—and 2026 could be the most lucrative year yet. I show you how to spot them and stay safe.

SMS blasters are portable devices which impersonate a mobile phone network tower and are used by cybercriminals.

A phone’s screen and battery are the most-likely components to go kaput, but each time you fix either you’re keeping a kilogram of e-waste from hitting the landfill. A new app from iFixit—a resource ...

That's the ethos behind Vaonis's Hestia. It's not a smart telescope, or even a normal telescope. Think of it as a lens to ...

The ShinyHunters extortion gang claims it is behind a wave of ongoing voice phishing attacks targeting single sign-on (SSO) ...

Text-to-speech (TTS) tools convert written text into spoken word using AI, which can increase accessibility and offer a shortcut to natural-sounding voice-overs for creative and p ...