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 2019, Microsoft published a study that changed how I talk to every client about security: enabling multi-factor authentication blocks 99.9% of automated account compromise attacks. That single stat should end every debate about whether two-factor authentication benefits are worth the minor inconvenience. Yet here we are in 2026,
When the Colonial Pipeline attack shut down fuel distribution across the U.S. East Coast in 2021, news anchors fumbled through terms like "ransomware," "threat actor," and "zero trust" as if reading a foreign language. Millions of viewers had no idea what any of
During a breach investigation last year, I watched a CFO stare blankly at an incident responder who kept saying "the threat actor used credential stuffing to pivot laterally after compromising an MFA-gapped endpoint." The CFO's response: "Can someone please speak English?" That moment cost
In 2023, a barcode scanner app on the Google Play Store — used by over 10 million people — pushed a malicious update that turned a legitimate tool into an aggressive adware delivery mechanism overnight. Users were flooded with pop-ups and redirected to shady websites. Within weeks, researchers discovered the same app
In 2023, the FBI dismantled a cybercrime ring that used a commercial keylogger called Snake Keylogger to steal credentials from over 10,000 victims across 50 countries. The malware recorded every keystroke — banking passwords, email logins, private messages — and quietly exfiltrated the data to attacker-controlled servers. The victims had no
Your Employees Think They're on Your Bank's Website. They're Not. In April 2022, researchers at Avast documented a campaign where threat actors compromised home routers to execute a DNS spoofing attack that redirected users trying to visit legitimate banking sites to near-perfect credential theft
In 2023, the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center received over 298,000 complaints about phishing — making it the most reported cybercrime for the fifth consecutive year. That number only accounts for what gets reported. The actual volume is staggering. So what is a phishing attack, and why does
The Question Everyone Asks After the Breach In 2023, MGM Resorts lost an estimated $100 million after a threat actor called Scattered Spider social-engineered its way past the help desk with a single phone call. The attackers didn't exploit some exotic zero-day vulnerability. They called IT, pretended to
In 2023, MGM Resorts lost roughly $100 million after a threat actor social-engineered their way past a help desk with a single phone call. That one incident tells you more about what cybersecurity actually is — and isn't — than any textbook ever could. If you've searched for
The Breach That Rewrote the Cybersecurity Definition for Everyone In 2023, MGM Resorts lost an estimated $100 million after a social engineering attack that started with a single phone call to their help desk. The threat actor didn't exploit a zero-day vulnerability. They didn't brute-force a
