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What Is Cybersecurity

What Is Cybersecurity? A Practitioner's Real-World Guide

In 2023, MGM Resorts lost an estimated $100 million after a threat actor called Scattered Spider social-engineered a help desk employee with a ten-minute phone call. That single conversation gave attackers the keys to one of the largest hospitality companies on the planet. So when someone asks me what is

Carl B. Johnson Apr 15, 2026 5 min read
Dark Web Monitoring

Dark Web Monitoring for Businesses: A Practical Guide

In April 2021, a collection of 533 million Facebook user records surfaced on a dark web forum — names, phone numbers, email addresses, all posted for anyone to grab. Three months before that, a compilation of 3.2 billion email and password pairs called COMB (Compilation of Many Breaches) appeared on

Carl B. Johnson Sep 23, 2021 7 min read