Real threats explained in plain language. Not paranoia — preparation. Cybersecurity for people who have better things to do than become security experts, but still need to stay safe.
Change your password every 90 days. Mix in a capital letter, a number, a symbol. Never write it down anywhere, ever, under any circumstances. That advice shaped decades of corporate IT policy and personal habit, and the agency responsible for originally recommending it has now formally reversed most of it. This isn’t a fringe opinion…
For decades, phishing awareness training boiled down to a handful of tells: bad grammar, generic greetings, a sender address that almost matched but not quite. That advice was never perfect, but it caught a real share of attempts. It’s now actively counterproductive, because the emails without any of those tells “Look for Typos” are precisely…
For years, the tell was obvious. A scam call had a strange accent, a robotic script, or a background noise that didn’t quite match the story being told. That reliable tell is largely gone now, and the reason isn’t a more sophisticated con artist — it’s that criminals no longer need to impersonate a voice…
Most people, when they picture AI privacy risk at all, picture something dramatic — a breach, a leak, a bad actor gaining access to something they shouldn’t. The far more common risk is quieter and entirely legal: a default setting, opted into automatically the moment an account was created, that lets a company use your…
