Discover how credit card validation codes work and protect against fraud. Learn about their placement, security role, and examples to secure online transactions.

The holiday season is fraught with scams, with officials warning shoppers to keep an extra wary eye out for shady deals and potential fraudsters. This is especially so in Pennsylvania, a state that, ...

Identity thieves have in recent years narrowed in on a particularly lucrative target: athletes on the verge of going pro. A report from the fraud detection company SentiLink found that NBA and NFL ...

Dan Kluver’s life was upended, and he’s not alone. As a matter of unlovely habit, apologists for illegal immigrants are wont to dismissively declare that, by entering the United States without ...

Thousands of undocumented workers rely on fraudulent Social Security numbers. One of them belonged to Dan Kluver. Dan Kluver discovered that another man in another state was moving through the world ...

Since decoding the “waggle dance” in the 1940s, bees have been at the forefront of research into insect intellect. A new study shows that bees can be trained to understand the dot-dash behavior of ...

It is well known that pictographic languages that use Hanzi, like Mandarin, are difficult to work with for computer input and output devices. After all, each character is a tiny picture that ...

DEGREES COMING UP HERE SHORTLY. THANK YOU. JASON. AN IOWA WOMAN WITH MULTIPLE THEFT AND FORGERY CHARGES ACROSS CENTRAL IOWA AND OUT OF STATE IS NOW IN CUSTODY. CLIVE POLICE SAY 24 YEAR OLD EMMA ...

In a first-of-its-kind study, scientists found that bumblebees can tell the difference between short and long light flashes, much like recognizing Morse code. The insects learned which signal led to a ...

Paula Wethington is a digital producer at CBS Detroit. She previously held digital content roles at NEWSnet, Gannett/USA Today network and The Monroe News in Michigan. She is a graduate of the ...

Researchers at Queen Mary University of London have shown for the first time that an insect—the bumblebee Bombus terrestris—can decide where to forage for food based on different durations of visual ...

Two people are facing dozens of charges in a multi-county fraud scheme, according to arrest warrants in Wake, Harnett, Cumberland and Moore counties. Victoria Tudor and Ethan Smith are accused of ...