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Scammers often direct victims to convert cash to untraceable cryptocurrency and send it to them. Joe Raedle/Getty Images

September 18, 2025

Scams and frauds: Here are the tactics criminals use on you in the age of AI and cryptocurrencies

Rahul Telang, Carnegie Mellon University

Technology has supercharged fraud. The ruses are ancient, but the tools scammers use are cutting edge.

Apple is refusing to back down in its fight with the FBI. Reuters

February 25, 2016

In FBI versus Apple, government strengthened tech’s hand on privacy

Rahul Telang, Carnegie Mellon University

Apple’s refusal to back down in its fight with the FBI is a sharp reversal from just a few years ago when it was the government urging tech companies to do more to protect consumer privacy.

“Unit 61398,” a secretive Chinese military unit believed to be behind many hacking attacks, sits on the outskirts of Shanghai. Reuters

June 8, 2015

China data thefts expose murky world of hidden motives, tricky responses when nations hack

Rahul Telang, Carnegie Mellon University

Recent data thefts that appear to be carried out by nations are unsettling for many reasons and raise profound questions about how we should handle them.

With a few lines of code, cyber criminals and governments have able to infiltrate the security of banks and retailers and steal hundreds of millions in customer records. Shutterstock

October 31, 2014

JPMorgan hack signals banks and retailers can do more to keep our data safe

Rahul Telang, Carnegie Mellon University

JPMorgan Chase early last month disclosed that cyber thieves pilfered account data on 76 million households and seven million small businesses over the summer, one of the biggest breaches ever and only…

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