Delivers actionable advice on recognizing and preventing phishing attacks, including email phishing, spear phishing, smishing, and vishing. Covers detection techniques, employee training approaches, email security tools, and real-world phishing examples to strengthen your defenses.
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The Breach That Started With "Company123!" In 2024, the credential stuffing attack against Roku compromised over 576,000 accounts. The attackers didn't exploit some exotic zero-day vulnerability. They used passwords stolen from other breaches and tried them against Roku accounts — because people reuse passwords everywhere. That
The FTC Just Fined Another Company Millions — Is Yours Next? I was just reading in 2023 the FTC finalized sweeping updates to its Safeguards Rule, and since then, enforcement has only accelerated. Companies like Chegg, CafePress, and Drizly didn't just face fines — their executives were personally named in
A Single Email Cost This Company $100 Million In 2017, a Lithuanian man tricked Google and Facebook employees into wiring over $100 million to bank accounts he controlled. His weapon wasn't malware. It wasn't a zero-day exploit. It was email. He sent invoices that looked like
The Receptionist Who Stopped a $3 Million Wire Fraud In 2023, a business email compromise attack targeted a mid-size manufacturing company in Ohio. The threat actor had spoofed the CEO's email perfectly. The wire transfer request looked legitimate. But a receptionist — someone with zero technical background — noticed the
A $5.8 Million Wake-Up Call from the FTC In 2023, the FTC finalized a settlement with Drizly and its CEO after a data breach exposed the personal information of roughly 2.5 million consumers. What made this case unusual wasn't just the fine — it was that the
One Reused Password Cost This Company $4.6 Billion In 2017, a single set of reused credentials let threat actors walk into Equifax's systems and expose 147 million records. The total cost exceeded $4.6 billion when you factor in the FTC settlement, lawsuits, and remediation. One password.
The Framework 83% of Organizations Claim to Follow — But Few Actually Implement When the City of Dallas was hit by a devastating ransomware attack in May 2023, investigations revealed systemic gaps in risk management, incident response, and access controls — the exact areas the NIST Cybersecurity Framework was designed to address.
23 Billion Stolen Credentials Are Circulating Right Now In 2020, Digital Shadows found more than 15 billion stolen credentials for sale on dark web markets — and that number has only climbed since. Every single one of those username-password pairs is ammunition for a credential stuffing attack. This isn't
In March 2020, Microsoft engineers published a finding that stunned even seasoned security professionals: accounts protected by multi-factor authentication block over 99.9% of automated attacks. Yet as of mid-2021, adoption remains shockingly low. The FBI's 2020 IC3 report documented $4.2 billion in cybercrime losses, with compromised
In February 2021, T-Mobile disclosed a data breach that exposed customer phone numbers and SIM information. That same month, the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center continued logging a surge in SIM swap complaints — a threat that directly undermines SMS-based two-factor authentication. If your organization still relies on text
