Phishing awareness articles teach readers to identify and avoid phishing attacks across email, SMS, voice calls, and social media. Content includes real-world phishing examples, red flags to watch for, reporting procedures, and tips for running phishing simulation campaigns.
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A Six-Figure Salary With No Degree — and a $80K Debt With One I recently spoke with two cybersecurity analysts at the same company. One had an online computer security degree and $78,000 in student loans. The other had no degree, a handful of certifications, and a home lab built
The Hiring Manager Who Ignored Every Applicant's Diploma A few years ago, I sat in on a hiring panel for a mid-level SOC analyst position. The hiring manager tossed a stack of resumes on the table and said, "I don't care what school any of
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 gap in employee policy — specifically, the identity verification process for password resets. A strong cybersecurity
A consultant nearly lost his entire Google account — not to a sloppy spam email, but to an AI-generated voice call that sounded exactly like Google support, complete with a follow-up email from what appeared to be an official Google domain. That's the new reality. Gmail users warned about
The $55 Million Email That Fooled a CFO In 2024, the automotive parts manufacturer Scoular lost $17.2 million to a business email compromise scheme. But that wasn't even close to the record. Ubiquiti Networks lost $46.7 million. Austrian aerospace firm FACC lost $55.8 million — and
A Single Stolen Password Cost One Company $60 Million In 2023, MGM Resorts got hit by a social engineering attack that started with a single phone call to the help desk. The threat actors impersonated an employee, reset credentials, and within hours had enough access to deploy ransomware across the
Last year, a mid-size accounting firm in Ohio lost $1.2 million after a single employee clicked one link in a spoofed Microsoft 365 email. The link looked like a routine password-reset page. It wasn't. Within 90 minutes, a threat actor had harvested credentials, bypassed weak authentication, and
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
In January 2024, a threat actor used stolen credentials to compromise a Microsoft executive's email account — no malware, no zero-day exploit, just a password spray attack against a legacy test tenant that lacked multi-factor authentication. Microsoft disclosed the breach publicly, and it became one of the most talked-about
The Phishing Email That Came From PayPal's Own Servers In late 2024, security researchers at Avanan documented a campaign where threat actors sent phishing invoices through PayPal's actual invoicing system — meaning the emails passed SPF, DKIM, and DMARC checks flawlessly. The same tactic has since merged
