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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In January 2025, a finance employee at a multinational firm joined a video call with what appeared to be their CFO and several colleagues. Every face on the screen was a deepfake. The employee transferred $25 million before anyone realized what happened. That incident — reported by CNN and confirmed by
Last October Cost Companies $4.88 Million on Average That's the average cost of a data breach in 2024, according to IBM's Cost of a Data Breach Report. And most of those breaches started the same way — a human clicked something they shouldn't have.
The Breach That Cost a 12-Person Company $1.2 Million In early 2024, a small accounting firm in the Midwest lost $1.2 million after an employee clicked a phishing link disguised as a DocuSign notification. The attacker harvested credentials, bypassed the firm's basic email filters, and initiated
In 2024, 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 a network reset. No zero-day exploit. No nation-state malware. Just a phone call. That single incident proved what I've been
In February 2024, Change Healthcare — a company that processes roughly one-third of all U.S. medical claims — was hit by the ALPHV/BlackCat ransomware group. The fallout was staggering: $872 million in direct costs reported by UnitedHealth Group in a single quarter, pharmacies unable to process prescriptions, and the personal
In February 2024, Change Healthcare — one of the largest health payment processors in the United States — was hit by the ALPHV/BlackCat ransomware group. The attack disrupted pharmacies, hospitals, and insurance claims across the entire country for weeks. UnitedHealth Group, the parent company, eventually disclosed that the breach affected roughly
In May 2024, Ticketmaster disclosed a breach that exposed personal data on over 560 million customers. The attack vector? Compromised credentials at a third-party cloud provider. No zero-day exploit. No nation-state wizardry. Just stolen login details and a lack of proper access controls. Data breach prevention doesn't start
The Cost of a Data Breach 2026 Is Already Taking Shape In 2024, IBM's 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. That wasn't an outlier. It
In May 2023, T-Mobile agreed to a $350 million settlement after a data breach exposed the personal information of roughly 76 million people. A significant chunk of that cost wasn't the breach itself — it was the fallout from notification failures, regulatory scrutiny, and class-action lawsuits that followed. If
The Breach That Started With "Company2024!" In January 2024, the password "admin" was still the most common credential found in data breaches according to NordPass research. That same year, the Verizon 2024 Data Breach Investigations Report confirmed that stolen credentials were involved in over 77% of
