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 Didn't Start With You In early 2024, a massive data breach at Change Healthcare — a subsidiary of UnitedHealth Group — disrupted the entire U.S. healthcare payment system for weeks. The root cause? A threat actor exploited compromised credentials on a remote access portal that lacked
October Comes and Goes — Breaches Don't Every October, organizations dust off the same tired PowerPoint decks, send a few reminder emails about password hygiene, and pat themselves on the back for "participating" in Cybersecurity Awareness Month. Then November arrives, an employee clicks a credential-harvesting link, and
A $9.5 Billion Problem That Keeps Getting Worse The FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) reported $12.5 billion in cybercrime losses in 2023 — a figure that's only climbed since. If you're searching for answers about cyber security, you're asking the
The Breach That Didn't Start With You In 2023, the MOVEit Transfer vulnerability gave threat actors a master key to thousands of organizations — not through their own systems, but through a single third-party file transfer tool. Over 2,600 organizations and 77 million individuals were impacted, according to
A Poster on the Breakroom Wall Never Stopped a Breach In 2023, MGM Resorts lost an estimated $100 million after a threat actor called the help desk, impersonated an employee found on LinkedIn, and talked their way into the network. No zero-day exploit. No nation-state malware. Just a phone call.
In 2023, MGM Resorts lost an estimated $100 million after a threat actor called Scattered Spider social-engineered their way past the help desk with a ten-minute phone call. That single conversation gave attackers the keys to slot machines, hotel room systems, and customer data across an entire casino empire. If
The Breach That Started With "Company2024!" In January 2024, a mid-size healthcare company lost 2.3 million patient records. The root cause wasn't a sophisticated zero-day exploit. It wasn't a nation-state threat actor. It was an employee who reused the same password across their
The Redundancy in "Computer Security Security" Is the Whole Point When the Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack shut down fuel distribution across the U.S. Southeast in 2021, the root cause wasn't exotic. It was a single compromised VPN credential without multi-factor authentication. One layer failed, and
Last March, a finance director at a mid-size logistics company wired $2.1 million to a threat actor who had spoofed the CEO's email address. The message looked perfect — right tone, right signature, right sense of urgency. The only thing wrong was the reply-to domain, off by a
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
