Actionable cybersecurity tips for individuals and organizations looking to strengthen their digital defenses. Topics range from password management and multi-factor authentication to device security, safe browsing habits, and incident response planning.
posts
In March 2024, a finance director at a mid-size manufacturer in Ohio wired $2.3 million to a threat actor who impersonated the company's CEO — all because of a single phishing email. The message looked perfect: right logo, right tone, right email signature. It even referenced an actual
In July 2021, a single phishing email gave attackers access to an employee's credentials at a Florida managed service provider, which cascaded into the massive Kaseya VSA ransomware attack affecting up to 1,500 businesses worldwide. One click. One employee who didn't know how to spot
A Single Fake Email Cost Facebook and Google $120 Million Between 2013 and 2015, a Lithuanian man named Evaldas Rimasauskas sent a series of fake email messages to employees at Facebook and Google. He impersonated a legitimate hardware vendor, complete with forged invoices and contracts. By the time both companies
91% of Cyberattacks Start With Fake Mail That's not a guess. The Verizon 2021 Data Breach Investigations Report confirmed that phishing was present in 36% of breaches — up from 25% the year before. And when you broaden the lens to include all forms of social engineering delivered through
In March 2021, the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center reported that Business Email Compromise — the sophisticated cousin of fake emails — caused over $1.8 billion in losses during 2020 alone. That made it the costliest category of cybercrime they tracked. Not ransomware. Not credit card fraud. Fake emails
Colonial Pipeline. SolarWinds. The Microsoft Exchange Server hack. We're barely halfway through 2021, and the breach headlines already read like a disaster film. Each one of these incidents started with something preventable — a compromised password, an unpatched system, a single employee who clicked the wrong link. The cybersecurity
Your Home Computer Is Now a High-Value Target In May 2021, the Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack shut down fuel delivery across the U.S. East Coast. The entry point? A single compromised password on a VPN account — likely tied to a home setup. If you're wondering how can
One Employee Missed the Red Flags — It Cost $2.3 Million In December 2020, a mid-sized manufacturing company in Ohio wired $2.3 million to what they believed was a long-standing supplier. The invoice looked perfect. The email address was off by a single character. Nobody caught it until the
In July 2020, a teenager convinced Twitter employees to hand over internal credentials through a phone-based social engineering attack. The result: hijacked accounts belonging to Barack Obama, Elon Musk, Joe Biden, and Apple — broadcasting a Bitcoin scam to hundreds of millions of followers. The attacker didn't exploit a
In 2023, the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center reported that business email compromise — a sophisticated category of fake email — caused adjusted losses exceeding $2.9 billion in a single year. That wasn't from exotic zero-day exploits. It was from emails that looked real but weren'
