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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During a breach investigation last year, I watched a CFO stare blankly at an incident response report and ask, "What's lateral movement? What does 'exfiltration' mean? Can someone just speak English?" That moment crystallized something I've known for two decades: the cybersecurity
Computer security and cybersecurity are often used interchangeably — but they are not the same thing. Understanding the distinction, and the history behind both terms, helps organizations build stronger defenses.
In December 2025, the FBI issued a stark public warning: delete suspicious text messages immediately. The advisory specifically called out a wave of smishing texts — SMS-based phishing attacks — targeting Americans with fake toll road notices, package delivery scams, and fraudulent financial alerts. The bureau's Internet Crime Complaint Center
The MGM Breach Started With a Single Phone Call In September 2023, a threat actor called the MGM Resorts help desk, pretended to be an employee, and talked their way into a credential reset. Within hours, the Scattered Spider group had deep access to MGM's systems. The result:
In May 2025, the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center reported that business email compromise — a sophisticated form of fake mail — accounted for over $2.9 billion in adjusted losses in 2023 alone. That number has only grown. I've personally worked cases where a single convincing email
In May 2024, the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center reported that business email compromise — a category built almost entirely on fake emails — accounted for over $2.9 billion in adjusted losses in a single year. That figure dwarfed ransomware losses by a factor of nearly 50. And those
In March 2024, a finance employee at a multinational firm in Hong Kong wired $25.6 million to threat actors after joining a video call that appeared to feature the company's CFO. The deepfake was convincing, but the attack started with something far simpler — a phishing link embedded
In 2023, a finance employee at a Hong Kong multinational wired $25 million to threat actors after a spear phishing email led to a deepfake video call impersonating the company's CFO. That's not a plot from a thriller — it's a real incident reported by
A $4.88 Million Question Nobody Asks Until It's Too Late In May 2023, the city of Dallas, Texas got hit with Royal ransomware. Emergency services disrupted. Court systems offline. Weeks of recovery. The estimated cost ran into tens of millions. And the entry point? A service account
A $4.88 Million Problem You Can't Solve With a Dictionary In 2024, the average cost of a data breach hit $4.88 million globally, according to IBM's Cost of a Data Breach Report. That number didn't come from sophisticated nation-state hackers exploiting exotic
