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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The Breach That Started With "Spring2024!" In 2023, a Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report finding shook the industry: roughly 49% of breaches involved stolen credentials. Not sophisticated zero-day exploits. Not nation-state malware. Passwords. Reused, predictable, phishable passwords. I've responded to incidents where the root cause was
In 2023, MGM Resorts lost an estimated $100 million after a threat actor socially engineered an IT help desk employee 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 ever
In 2023, the FBI's IC3 received over 21,000 complaints related to malware infections that led directly to credential theft — and a significant number of those involved keyloggers silently recording every password, credit card number, and private message typed on a compromised machine. A keylogger attack doesn'
A Single Phone Call Cost One Company $25 Million In early 2024, a finance worker at engineering firm Arup was tricked into wiring $25 million after a video call with what appeared to be the company's CFO — deepfake technology made the voice and face indistinguishable from the real
In 2023, the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center received over 880,000 complaints with potential losses exceeding $12.5 billion — a 22% increase from the previous year. A staggering number of those incidents involved some form of malicious software. Understanding the types of malware your organization faces isn&
The Breach That Took 277 Days to Find According to IBM's Cost of a Data Breach Report, the average time to identify and contain a breach was 258 days in recent years — nearly nine months of a threat actor living inside your network. I've worked incidents
The Textbook Got It Wrong In 2023, MGM Resorts lost roughly $100 million after a threat actor social-engineered their IT help desk with a single phone call. The attackers didn't exploit a zero-day vulnerability. They didn't write custom malware. They just talked their way in. If
The IRS Never Calls Like That — But the Number Said Otherwise In 2019, the Department of Justice announced the takedown of a massive India-based call center scam that defrauded U.S. victims out of hundreds of millions of dollars. The callers impersonated IRS agents, and their secret weapon was simple:
The Breach That Started With "Summer2024!" In 2024, the Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report found that stolen credentials were involved in roughly 31% of all breaches over the prior decade — and that number hasn't meaningfully dropped. I've personally investigated incidents where an entire corporate
In 2023, the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center received over 298,000 phishing complaints — making it the most reported cybercrime for the fifth consecutive year. Despite billions spent on security technology, a single deceptive email still remains the most reliable way for a threat actor to breach an
