Hundreds of people in the Faroe Islands may have given away unauthorised information in an extensive wave of SMS scams over the past six months, Kringvarp Føroya reported. Turið F. Arge, chairwoman of the Association of Financial Institutions, said the attacks are more widespread than in previous…

The internet is noisy this week. We are seeing some wild new tactics, like people using fake cell towers to send scam texts, while some developers are accidentally downloading tools that peek into their private files during a simple install. It is definitely a busy time to be online. Security is always a moving target. Millions of servers are currently sitting online without any passwords, and

Fraudsters are posing as vulnerable children to trick parents out of thousands of pounds — but the police and phone companies are playing catch-up

CHRIS MCGONIGAL/HUFFPOST; PHOTOS: GETTY IMAGES That text message about your package could be a scamOne of the biggest scams you need to watch out for is coming from your phone. In “smishing”  a ter…