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A school district in Arizona lost $3.5 million in January 2024 after a single employee followed spoofed wire transfer instructions. The attacker didn't exploit a software vulnerability. They exploited trust. That incident captures why most computer security advice fails — it focuses on tools while ignoring the human
The Breach That Started With "Spring2024!" In 2023, a Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report finding shook the industry: roughly 49% of breaches involved stolen credentials. Not sophisticated zero-day exploits. Not nation-state malware. Passwords. Reused, predictable, phishable passwords. I've responded to incidents where the root cause was
A Single Click Cost One Hospital Chain $100 Million In 2024, Change Healthcare — one of the largest health payment processors in the U.S. — got hit with a ransomware attack that disrupted pharmacy operations across the entire country. UnitedHealth Group, its parent company, reported costs exceeding $870 million related to
A Single Click Cost One Hospital System $67 Million In 2024, Change Healthcare — one of the largest health payment processors in the U.S. — was hit by the ALPHV/BlackCat ransomware group. The attack disrupted claims processing for thousands of providers nationwide. UnitedHealth Group, its parent company, reported costs exceeding
Capital One Lost 100 Million Records — The Cloud Wasn't the Problem In 2019, a former AWS employee exploited a misconfigured web application firewall and exfiltrated over 100 million Capital One customer records. The cloud infrastructure worked exactly as designed. The humans configuring it didn't. That breach
Most Organizations Read CISA's Advice — Then Ignore the Hard Parts In 2023, the City of Dallas got hit with Royal ransomware. Services went down. Police dispatch systems broke. Recovery took weeks and cost millions. The attack vector? The kind of basic intrusion that CISA cybersecurity guidelines have warned
A school district in Arizona lost $3.5 million in January 2024 after a single employee followed a spoofed email's wire transfer instructions. No malware. No sophisticated zero-day exploit. Just one person who didn't recognize a social engineering attack. That's why most computer security
In 2024, the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center received over 859,000 complaints with losses exceeding $16.6 billion — a 33% increase from the year before. That number isn't slowing down in 2026. I've spent years watching organizations and individuals make the same preventable
In 2023, MGM Resorts lost an estimated $100 million after a threat actor called the help desk, pretended to be an employee, and talked their way into a password reset. No malware. No zero-day exploit. Just a phone call and a convincing story. That single incident shut down slot machines,
A single employee at MGM Resorts answered a social engineering call in September 2023, and within hours a threat actor had enough access to trigger a shutdown that cost the company over $100 million. The attacker didn't exploit a zero-day vulnerability. They exploited a person. That's
