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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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
In 2023, Verizon's Data Breach Investigations Report found that 74% of all breaches involved the human element — and a growing percentage of those started on a mobile device. I've reviewed mobile device security policies for organizations of every size, and here's the uncomfortable truth:
$4.88 Million Was Last Year's Average. This Year Will Be Worse. IBM's 2024 Cost of a Data Breach Report put the global average at $4.88 million — a 10% jump from the year before and the highest figure ever recorded at that point. If you
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
