Heather Barnhart, a fellow at the SANS Institute and a digital forensic expert discusses how teenagers and their families can protect themselves against the scourge of sextortion

The FBI bulletin confirms what many cybercrime researchers may have already feared: Sextortion scams are prevalent, and profitable.

The threat intelligence company Digital Shadows examined 790,000 "sextortion" attempts sent to 89,000 email recipients to find that digital con artists typically build their bogus stories on…