When I called the FBI field offices, the agents were also mindful to tell me that it's not the technology that is illegal but the acts. President Obama signed the Caller ID Act of 2009 into public law ...

How does someone become a victim of "spoofing" caller ID? By exploiting technology, a person can make the caller ID appear to be from whatever number he wants. Because spoofing runs the gamut from ...

BOISE, Idaho — Idaho State Police (ISP) is warning the public of a phone scam hitting the Gem State. The spoofing scam involves using a fake caller ID to impersonate ISP Captains or other personnel.

A growing wave of caller ID spoofing attacks, in which criminals falsify the number displayed on a phone to appear legitimate, has prompted Europol to call for urgent, coordinated action across Europe ...

He spoofed the HR director’s work phone number, then the number of that guy’s boss, before moving up to a vice president, and finally, the CEO. Says he had no choice. He also says, “This thing that I ...

COMMENTARY Three seconds of audio is all it takes to clone a voice. Vishing, or voice fraud, has rapidly become a problem many of us know only too well, impacting 15% of the population. Over ...