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In 2024, MGM Resorts lost roughly $100 million after a social engineering attack that started with a single phone call to their help desk. The attacker didn't exploit a zero-day vulnerability. They didn't brute-force a password. They manipulated a human being. And that's the
The Hiring Manager Doesn't Care Where You Studied I've reviewed hundreds of resumes for security analyst and incident response roles over the years. Here's what surprises most people: an online computer security degree carries the same weight as one earned on a physical campus
The Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack this week shut down fuel distribution across the Eastern United States. One attack. One compromised password. Millions of people affected. If you needed a reason to pursue an online computer security degree in 2021, you're watching it play out on live television right
89% of Employees Think They'd Spot a Phish. The Data Says Otherwise. I ran a phishing simulation for a mid-size law firm last year. Before the test, we surveyed staff — 89% said they were confident they could identify a phishing email. Then we sent three simulated phishes over
A $4.88 Million Problem That Slides Right Past Your Firewall IBM's 2024 Cost of a Data Breach Report pegged the global average breach cost at $4.88 million. The leading initial attack vector? Phishing and stolen credentials — both of which target people, not servers. Yet most organizations
In 2023, MGM Resorts lost an estimated $100 million after a threat actor called Scattered Spider social-engineered the company's IT help desk with a ten-minute phone call. The attacker didn't exploit a zero-day vulnerability. They didn't brute-force a password. They just talked their way
The Hiring Manager Doesn't Care Where You Sat in Class I've reviewed over a thousand resumes for security analyst and incident response roles. Not once — not a single time — have I rejected a candidate because their online computer security degree wasn't earned in a
