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Welcome to the Phish Tour: How a Single Email Becomes a Full-Blown Breach In March 2023, the FBI's IC3 received over 298,000 complaints related to phishing schemes — more than any other cybercrime category by a wide margin. That number has only climbed since. Yet most people still
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 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
In 2023, MGM Resorts lost an estimated $100 million after a threat actor social-engineered a help desk employee with a ten-minute phone call. The attacker didn't exploit a zero-day vulnerability. They exploited a person — someone who hadn't been trained to recognize what was happening. That single
In 2023, there were roughly 3.5 million unfilled cybersecurity jobs worldwide. That number hasn't budged much heading into 2024. Meanwhile, the average cost of a data breach hit $4.45 million according to IBM's latest report. Organizations are desperate for qualified talent, and an online
In 2022, a single employee at Twilio clicked a phishing link embedded in a fake IT notification. That one click gave threat actors access to internal systems and exposed data tied to over 130 organizations. The root cause wasn't a firewall failure or a zero-day exploit — it was
485,000 Unfilled Cybersecurity Jobs — And Counting CyberSeek's latest data shows roughly 714,548 cybersecurity job openings in the United States as of early 2022, with only about 1.1 million people employed in the field. That gap is enormous. If you're researching an online computer
A $4.24 Million Problem That a Browser Tab Could Fix In 2021, IBM's Cost of a Data Breach Report pegged the global average cost of a breach at $4.24 million — the highest in 17 years. Here's the part that should keep you up at
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
