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For Cybersecurity Awareness Month, a career communicator on the words the cyber industry uses, specifically the word cyber. Mark Twain had a line for this. “The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter,” he wrote to George Bainton in 1888. “‘Tis the difference between the lightning-bug and … Read more
This essay originally appeared on “With Respect — Mostly,” Executive Editor Martin Hinton’s Substack, where he writes about a wide range of subjects, including cyber insurance and security. It has been adapted for Cyber Insurance News with additional reporting that ties it more directly to coverage we’ve done. Oh man. This was going to be … Read more
A Token For The Pause Button: Social Engineering Losses And The Click Habit It’s 2003. Stage. Steve Jobs. Black turtleneck. Mock turtleneck? And words of digital gospel: buying should be easy. No pause. No friction. Steve didn’t invent impulse. He just helped us lean further into it. Maybe it was even a leap. In 2003, … Read more