Tag: Fraud
You know how to identify phishing emails – a cybersecurity researcher...
Rick Wash, Michigan State University
An employee at MacEwan University got an email in 2017 from someone claiming to...
Why Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg may be in hot water with the...
Jena Martin, West Virginia University
The Wall Street Journal recently revealed that Facebook treats users’ posts differently depending on...
Trillions in infrastructure spending could mean hundreds of billions in fraud
Jetson Leder-Luis, Boston University
The U.S. government may be on the verge of spending as much as US$4.5 trillion...
Here’s how much your personal information is worth to cybercriminals –...
Ravi Sen, Texas A&M University
Data breaches have become common, and billions of records are stolen worldwide every year....
Sketchy darknet websites are taking advantage of the COVID-19 pandemic –...
David Maimon, Georgia State University
Underground markets that sell illegal commodities like drugs, counterfeit currency and fake documentation tend to flourish in times of crisis,...
Does ignoring robocalls make them stop? Here’s what we learned from...
Sathvik Prasad, North Carolina State University and Bradley Reaves, North Carolina State University
The Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work.
The big...
Why Steve Bannon faces fraud charges: 4 questions answered
Lloyd Hitoshi Mayer, University of Notre Dame
Editor’s note: Federal prosecutors in New York have arrested former senior Trump adviser Steve Bannon and three other...
Why New York is suing the NRA: 4 questions answered
Brian Mittendorf, The Ohio State University
Editor’s note: New York state Attorney General Letitia James is suing the National Rifle Association and four of its...
EXPLORING NATURE
The battle over a global energy transition is on between petro-states...
Jennifer Morgan, Tufts University
Two years ago, countries around the world set a goal of “transitioning away from fossil...
