How scam calls and messages took over our everyday lives

To own a computer or smartphone — indeed, to engage with the digital world to any degree — is to be a mark. You can try to block, encrypt and unsubscribe your way out of it, but you may not succeed. Read More

Phone scams in the age of AI: More targeted, dangerous

New AI technology has led to voice cloning, which allows scammers to impersonate celebrities, elected officials and even your close friends. Those re-creations have been used to extort family members ... Read More

Hiya Reveals Escalating Threat of Phone Fraud and Spam Calls Despite Preference for Voice Communication

Consumers prefer voice calls over email or text, especially for sensitive matters such as healthcare, banking, and credit card communications. Read More

Generative AI meets scams and spam: Deciding what’s real on social media gets trickier

AI-generated images draw in users—and Facebook’s recommendation algorithm may be organically promoting these posts. Read More

The world's leading AI companies pledge to protect the safety of children online

Leading artificial intelligence companies including OpenAI, Microsoft, Google, Meta and others have jointly pledged to prevent their AI tools from being used to exploit children and generate child ... Read More

FBI Issues New Warning If You Pay Highway Tolls Online Or By Phone

That’s the latest warning from the FBI, whose Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) has received several thousand reports from users complaining about “smishing texts representing road toll collection ... Read More

California wants Big Tech to pay for news. Google is fighting back.

Google blocked news links for some California web users as it protests a bill that would force it to make payments to news publishers ... Read More