Ransomware was involved in 48% of all the data breaches Verizon analyzed for its 2026 report, up from 44% the year before. That makes it the most common way an attack ends, and for many organizations the most disruptive thing…
In 2020, attackers took over the most high-profile accounts on Twitter — Obama, Musk, Apple, dozens more. There was no zero-day exploit, no clever malware. They picked up the phone, called employees, pretended to be internal IT, and simply talked…
In mid-2025, an attacker sent an email to a company using Microsoft 365 Copilot. The employee never opened it, never clicked anything, never even knew it arrived. Copilot processed the mailbox during a routine summarization, and about forty seconds later,…
In early 2024, a finance employee at the engineering firm Arup joined a routine video call with the company’s CFO and several colleagues. He’d been suspicious of an earlier email requesting an urgent transfer — so the live call, with…
In the movies, a security breach is a wall of red screens, a countdown timer, and someone shouting “we’ve been hacked!” as code cascades down a monitor. The reality is quieter, slower, and far more procedural — and understanding what…
There is a good chance one of your passwords is already sitting in a database on a criminal forum right now — not because you did anything careless, but because of how passwords actually get stolen at scale. A single…
Every browser in the world shows you a padlock when a site is encrypted. Millions of people were taught that padlock means safe. But more than 90% of phishing sites now display that same padlock — fully encrypted, fully verified,…
The word “firewall” has quietly misled millions of people for thirty years. It sounds like a wall — a solid barrier that keeps bad things out and safe things in. That mental image is the single most common reason organizations…
