Fake virus alerts are invading mobile games

Sometimes it happens. You’re happily playing a game on your phone or laptop when suddenly alarms pop up out of nowhere: " Your device is infected!" " Your iCloud is full!" " Your account is restricted for watching porn!" Some games can be played for free if you agree to watch ads, and in others y...

JetBlue Bomb Scare Set Off with Apple AirDrop

The feature in Apple mobile devices that allows people to send photos to nearby phones via Bluetooth is at the heart of a terrorism scare on a JetBlue flight over the weekend. According to the New York Daily News, a prankster sent a photo of a suicide vest to everyone who had an Apple device on t...

Jailed cyber criminal hacked into prison computer system from Jail

Old habits seem to die hard for a hacker, a cyber criminal who masterminded a £15 million fraud was allowed to join a prison IT class and hacked into the jail's computer system. Nicholas Webber, serving five years in prison for running an internet crime forum Ghost Market, Which allowed those...