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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
Ransomware leak sites listed 7,366 victims over the past year. That is 3% fewer than the year before. But… The data taken from those victims tells a different story. Among the 10 groups that leaked the most, combined exfiltration volume rose 275.8% to 896.2 terabytes. Several groups averaged more than a terabyte per victim. Those … Read more
CISOs, beware of deepfake social engineering! Four in ten chief information security officers have now sat through a deepfake on a work audio call. More than a third have seen one on video. Security awareness training taught people to spot a bad link and a wrong domain. It never taught them to doubt a familiar … 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
Half of American finance professionals have let an unusual payment request through, or nearly did, because it appeared to come from someone they trusted. That figure sits at the center of the Yooz 2026 Payment Fraud Readiness Report, published this month. It matters because trust was never a control. It was a shortcut that worked … Read more