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 small business owner stare blankly at the incident report. "What's lateral movement? What's a C2 server? What does exfiltration even mean?" He wasn't unintelligent — he just didn't speak the language. And
In 2023, MGM Resorts lost an estimated $100 million after a social engineering attack that started with a single phone call to a help desk. The attackers didn't exploit some exotic zero-day vulnerability. They used techniques that anyone familiar with basic cybersecurity terminology would recognize — vishing, credential theft,
A Fake Invoice Cost One Company $121 Million In 2019, a Lithuanian national named Evaldas Rimasauskas pleaded guilty to orchestrating a phishing scheme that stole over $121 million from Google and Facebook. His weapon wasn't malware. It wasn't a zero-day exploit. It was email — and an
In 2024, the average cost of a data breach hit $4.88 million according to IBM's Cost of a Data Breach Report. That number keeps climbing. And after two decades in this field, I can tell you that most of those breaches didn't involve some sophisticated
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 impersonated an employee, gained access to internal systems, and deployed ransomware across the enterprise. The entire operation took roughly 10 minutes to
700,000 Openings and Counting — Why Jobs in Computer Security Are Exploding The U.S. had roughly 700,000 unfilled cybersecurity positions in 2024, according to CyberSeek, a project supported by NIST and CompTIA. That number hasn't shrunk. If anything, the demand for jobs in computer security has
The Breach That Made "Trust" a Dirty Word In 2020, the SolarWinds breach gave threat actors access to the internal networks of at least nine U.S. federal agencies and over 100 private companies. The attackers moved laterally for months — undetected — because once they were inside the network
The Federal Agency Most Hackers Wish You'd Never Heard Of In January 2024, CISA — the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency — issued an emergency directive after threat actors exploited vulnerabilities in Ivanti VPN products to infiltrate multiple federal agencies. The directive gave agencies 48 hours to disconnect affected devices.
The Breach That Proved Firewalls Aren't Enough In 2023, MGM Resorts lost an estimated $100 million after a threat actor used social engineering — a single phone call to the help desk — to bypass perimeter defenses and move laterally through internal systems. The attackers didn't need to
In 2023, the FBI dismantled a cybercriminal operation that used the Snake malware — a sophisticated keylogger that had quietly exfiltrated credentials from government networks across 50 countries for nearly two decades. Every password. Every internal message. Every classified document typed into a keyboard. That's the reality of a
