Develop a strong security mindset with articles focused on security awareness principles, social engineering defense, safe browsing habits, password hygiene, and recognizing manipulation tactics used by attackers targeting human vulnerabilities.
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In March 2022, the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center reported that Americans lost over $6.9 billion to cybercrime in 2021 — a 64% jump from the year before. That number makes the standard cybersecurity definition you'll find in a textbook feel almost dangerously quaint. If you&
In May 2021, a single compromised password shut down Colonial Pipeline — the largest fuel pipeline in the United States — for six days. The company paid a $4.4 million ransom. Flights were disrupted. Gas stations ran dry across the Southeast. All because one set of credentials was exposed on the
In March 2022, the Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report team released preliminary findings showing that 82% of breaches involved the human element — phishing, stolen credentials, and social engineering. Meanwhile, most organizations I work with still treat NIST standards like a dusty compliance checkbox rather than what they actually are: a
The 2022 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report landed last month, and one number should keep every business owner awake at night: 82% of breaches involved the human element. Phishing, stolen credentials, pretexting, human error — threat actors aren't picking locks. They're asking your employees to hold the
In March 2022, the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center reported that phishing schemes were the most complained-about cybercrime in 2021, with over 323,000 victims — more than double the number from just two years prior. That stat doesn't surprise me. What surprises me is how many
In March 2022, the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center reported that business email compromise — a form of spear phishing — caused $2.4 billion in adjusted losses in 2021 alone. That dwarfs every other cybercrime category. Meanwhile, broad phishing campaigns still top the list as the most common attack
The 82% Problem Nobody Wants to Own The 2022 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report found that 82% of breaches involved a human element — phishing, stolen credentials, misuse, or simple error. That number has barely budged in years. And yet most organizations still treat cybersecurity awareness training as a checkbox exercise:
In March 2022, Lapsus$ — a threat actor group largely composed of teenagers — breached Microsoft, Nvidia, Samsung, and Okta. They didn't use sophisticated zero-day exploits. They used social engineering. They bought credentials. They tricked employees. And they walked through the front door of some of the most well-resourced security
One Click Cost This Company Everything In March 2022, a single employee at Nvidia clicked something they shouldn't have. The Lapsus$ threat actor group walked away with over a terabyte of proprietary data, including employee credentials and source code. Nvidia isn't a small shop with weak
A $4.24 Million Problem That a Browser Tab Could Fix In 2021, IBM's Cost of a Data Breach Report pegged the global average cost of a breach at $4.24 million — the highest in 17 years. Here's the part that should keep you up at
