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One Unapproved App Cost a Hospital Network $3 Million In 2023, a regional hospital system discovered that a department had been using an unapproved file-sharing tool to exchange patient records for over a year. The tool had no encryption, no access controls, and no audit trail. When an attacker exploited
Your Employees Already Built a Second IT Department In 2023, a Gartner survey found that 41% of employees acquired, modified, or created technology outside of IT's visibility. By now, that number has only grown. If you're asking what is shadow IT, the short answer is this:
The $4.88 Million Risk Sitting in Your Employees' Pockets In 2024, IBM's Cost of a Data Breach Report pegged the global average breach cost at $4.88 million. What most executives don't realize is how often the attack chain starts with a compromised mobile
In 2024, a single compromised employee smartphone gave a threat actor full access to a healthcare company's patient records — 1.4 million individuals affected, an OCR investigation opened, and a brand reputation shattered. The initial vector? A phishing link sent via SMS that bypassed every email filter the
The Text Message That Cost a Company $15 Million In 2022, Twilio disclosed a breach that started with a simple SMS message. Employees received text messages impersonating the IT department, directing them to a fake login page. Several entered their credentials. That single vector — mobile phishing attacks delivered via text
A $1 USB Stick Took Down a Defense Contractor In 2008, a USB flash drive infected with the Agent.BTZ worm was plugged into a U.S. military laptop at a base in the Middle East. That single device triggered what the Pentagon called the most significant breach of U.
In 2019, a penetration tester hired by the state of Iowa walked into a locked courthouse after hours by simply following an employee through a secure door. He was arrested — even though the state had authorized the test. The incident made national headlines and exposed a painful truth: your firewalls,
A few years ago, a journalist filmed himself reading credit card numbers, PINs, and passwords off the screens of commuters on a London train. No malware. No exploit kit. Just a pair of eyes and a decent camera phone. That's a shoulder surfing attack in its simplest form
The Unlocked Filing Cabinet That Cost a Hospital $3 Million In 2019, the Office for Civil Rights fined Bayfront Health St. Petersburg $85,000 for a breach involving paper records left in an unsecured location. That was a small settlement. I've seen organizations lose far more when a
The Breach That Started With a Single Slack Message In September 2022, a threat actor sent a social engineering message to an Uber employee, pretending to be IT support. The employee handed over credentials. Within hours, the attacker had access to internal systems, the company's HackerOne vulnerability reports,
