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What Price Overconfidence? The timeless tale of the Tortoise and the Hare offers a clear lesson: overconfidence can lead to defeat. In healthcare IT, this overconfidence may cost organizations millions of dollars. A new report from Paubox exposes a confidence crisis among healthcare IT leaders who vastly overestimate their ability to safeguard email communication, one … Read more
If You See It, Hear It, Believe It… You May Be Wrong We’ve become the opposite of the three wise monkeys: seeing, hearing, and speaking evil—all thanks to deepfakes. You can no longer believe what you see, hear, or say. According to Pindrop’s 2025 Voice Intelligence & Security Report, deepfakes are now a daily risk. … Read more
Personal Data: The New Gold in the Criminal Underground Cybercriminals are no longer just stealing data—they’re running a data-driven black market. Europol’s latest Internet Organised Crime Threat Assessment (IOCTA) for 2025, titled “Steal, Deal, Repeat,” pulls back the curtain on a booming digital economy where your stolen identity fuels scams, extortion, and organized crime. Cyber … Read more
Major UK retailers, including Marks & Spencer and Harrods, have suffered severe cyber attacks in recent weeks. The cliché gloom of “rainy old London town” has rarely felt more literal—or more symbolic—or maybe it’s more digital—than in the wake of recent cyberattacks on UK retailers. As shoppers braved the drizzle outside Harrods and M&S, attackers … Read more
New Dogs, New Tricks: Fighting Digital Mammoths with Click-Smart Training “To err is human,” in the digital age, it’s just as true as when cavemen mistook mammoths for pets. But while our ancestors battled saber-toothed cats, today’s prey are cyber attackers, and phishing emails are their spears. In this modern hunt, we don’t need to … Read more