Today, anyone can find a picture of absolutely anybody and it is also not difficult to find a sample of their voice. By combining these it is shockingly easy to create a realistic AI ...
A friend of mine, John D., received this outreach on Threads (see below). At first, he thought it was the standard fake employer scam, but it is more than that. It is very likely part of ...
Using the right tool for the job is always better. Anyone who does DIY projects around the home knows how using the right tool can dramatically make the job you are doing far easier. Use ...
I received this email the other day to my personal email account. It is a “Security Alert” from “Microsoft Helpdesk.” Oh, my!
AI maturation is leading to more malicious hacking attacks.
One of the biggest reasons why cybercrime is so bad — and is increasing each year —is that so much of it is committed by foreign nationals who are not physically located in the country ...
These days it can be hard to tell if something is or isn’t a scam.
It can happen to the best of us. This story happened a decade ago, when I was working at a Fortune 10 company. “Smartest” is subjective, but most of my former coworkers and external ...
I have been writing about the need to better train our programmers in secure coding practices for decades, most recently here and here.
Fighting voice-based phishing needs to be a big part of your human risk management (HRM) plan.
