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SALT LAKE CITY — As Utahns prepare for the holidays, cybersecurity experts warn criminals are now in their busy season.

"It started in October," said Eric O'Neill, a former FBI special agent and author of "Spies, Lies and Cybercrime."

"At the end of October, in Halloween, the run-up to Halloween. And it continues all the way through New Year's," he said.

The reason is simply: that we're busy. We shop more. We travel more. We donate more. All things that suck up the time where, the rest of the year, we might think to ourselves, "Huh — that seems fishy."

Nationally, nearly 1 in 3 people surveyed by cybersecurity firm Norton said they've been targeted by holiday scams.

"This is when cybercriminals swarm the internet in order to steal as much money as t

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