Computer Security News and Insights
In 2024, the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center reported over $16 billion in losses from cybercrime — a record. That staggering number is the single biggest reason computer security jobs pay what they do. Organizations are desperate for qualified defenders, and they're backing that desperation with serious
The Breach That Started With a Help Desk Call In September 2023, MGM Resorts lost an estimated $100 million after a threat actor social-engineered their way through a help desk phone call. The attacker didn't need a zero-day exploit. They didn't crack an encryption algorithm. They
In May 2023, Progress Software's MOVEit file transfer tool was exploited by the Cl0p ransomware gang, compromising data from over 2,500 organizations and roughly 67 million individuals. Government agencies, hospitals, universities, Fortune 500 companies — none were spared. If you asked any of those organizations whether they had
In January 2025, the Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report team was already tracking a sharp rise in cloud-specific intrusions — a trend that accelerated throughout the year. By mid-2025, roughly 45% of all breaches involved cloud assets, up significantly from prior years. If your organization moved to the cloud and assumed
In March 2025, the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center reported that Americans lost over $16 billion to cybercrime in 2024 — a 33% increase from the prior year. That number isn't abstract. It represents real people and real businesses that thought their defenses were good enough. I&
In March 2025, the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center reported that Americans lost over $16 billion to cybercrime in 2024 — the highest figure ever recorded. Every single one of those victims had some form of computer security software installed. Antivirus was running. Firewalls were configured. And yet, the
A Three-Letter Prefix That Now Governs Trillions of Dollars When the White House released its updated National Cybersecurity Strategy implementation plan in 2024, the word "cyber" appeared over 400 times in a single document. The Pentagon has an entire command built around it — U.S. Cyber Command. The
The Cybersecurity Talent Gap Is Real — But So Is the Debt In April 2025, CyberSeek reported roughly 470,000 unfilled cybersecurity positions across the United States. That number has barely budged in three years. Meanwhile, the average cost of a data breach hit $4.88 million in 2024 according to
The Breach That Started With a Single Misconfigured S3 Bucket In 2023, Toyota disclosed that the vehicle data of 2.15 million customers had been publicly accessible for over a decade — because a cloud database was set to public instead of private. No sophisticated threat actor. No zero-day exploit. Just
In March 2025, a finance director at a mid-sized manufacturing company wired $2.3 million to a bank account in Southeast Asia. The request came from what looked like the CEO's email — same signature, same tone, same thread about an acquisition they'd been discussing for weeks.
