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 ...

The five main types are network security, application security, information security, endpoint security, and cloud security.

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 ...

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 ...

There has been an alarming increase in cyber crime in Latin America in recent years, as technology has advanced. From data theft to digital fraud, cyber crime is a threat that knows no borders. The ...

The government is launching a crackdown on devastating and costly cyber attacks in the UK with a new system that is being launched today. Hackers launched over 7,000,000 cyber attacks in the UK in ...

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 ...

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 ...