{video} It was after midnight when Oren Falkowitz received the frantic text messages. It was a plea from a client to help a friend who owns shares in a Silicon Valley company set to go public—and who had received a very frightening email. “They said they have videos of him looking at porn through his webcam,” the client wrote, adding the senders had targeted his friend in a crafty blackmail scheme. Falkowitz, who runs an anti-phishing company called Area 1, had some useful advice: “It’s fake. Tell him to delete [the email] and go to sleep.” Crisis resolved. Unfortunately, thousands of others have fallen prey to the ... (full story)