Heard of Imran Awan? Just another IT consultant serving the U.S. Congress, until recently. Awan is a Pakistani IT specialist that was hired, along with family members, by certain U.S. Congress representatives over a period of several years. Awan, along with his family and team members, earned several millions of dollars – sometimes for their
Have you seen this? You are working on your computer and everything seems fine when all of a sudden – POP! – a pop-up window alerts you that your PC is infected with a virus and you must “click here” or “remove all” to run a scan or install and upgrade antivirus software. Your first
Now in 2016, the Yahoo breach that has occurred 2 years ago, in late 2014 has been confirmed by Yahoo on Thursday: at least 500 million user accounts have been stolen. There has been a rise of conflicting information about the nature of this breach. Yahoo declares it was a job of a “state-sponsored actor”,
When you hear the word “cybercrime”, what comes to mind? Credit card numbers theft? Hacking into your computer? There are several different types of cybercrime, and they are growing at an alarming rate. Hackers are no longer some anti-social loners who crack the code for bragging rights – hacking came of age and is maturing
