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A Single Home Router Opened the Door to a $4.88M Breach In 2024, IBM's Cost of a Data Breach Report pegged the global average breach cost at $4.88 million — the highest ever recorded. A significant chunk of those breaches involved remote workers. That number isn'
The Breach That Cost a Children's Charity Everything In 2023, Save the Children Federation disclosed it had been hit by the BianLian ransomware gang, which claimed to have stolen nearly 7 GB of sensitive data including financial records, medical information, and personal data. A global nonprofit with significant
A Single Click Cost One Hospital Chain $100 Million In 2024, Change Healthcare — the payment processing backbone of the U.S. healthcare system — was crippled by a ransomware attack attributed to the ALPHV/BlackCat group. UnitedHealth Group, its parent company, disclosed the incident would cost over $870 million in direct
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
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 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
A Single Click Cost One Hospital Chain $100 Million In 2024, Change Healthcare — the largest health payment processing company in the U.S. — was hit by the ALPHV/BlackCat ransomware gang. The attack disrupted claims processing for thousands of providers nationwide. UnitedHealth Group, Change Healthcare's parent company, disclosed
43% of Cyberattacks Target Small Businesses — Most Aren't Ready That number comes straight from the Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report, and it's been climbing for years. In my experience working with organizations of every size, small businesses consistently overestimate their security posture and underestimate their exposure.
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
The Breach That Changed How I Think About Cyber Security In February 2024, Change Healthcare — one of the largest health payment processors in the United States — was hit by a ransomware attack that disrupted pharmacies, hospitals, and insurance claims across the country for weeks. UnitedHealth Group, its parent company, later
