Phishing is still how most attacks start, because it works. These articles cover how phishing operates, the difference between generic phishing, spear phishing, and whaling, and what genuinely reduces the risk.
Cybersecurity GhostwritingI have to take gamified security tests to consult for companies, and I have rewritten the book on phishing, literally: KnowBe4's Cyberheist, twice, credited alongside Roger A. Grimes. The gap between those two kinds of training is the gap between…
PhishingHe arrived to service the payment terminals, carrying replacements: our exact model, hacked to skim card data. What stopped him was not a firewall or a scanner. It was a policy simple enough to survive contact with a busy front…
Defense in DepthThe fake UPS email arrived five minutes after my real eBay order, pixel-perfect, and I clicked it. Then the screen turned red: infection stopped, infection stopped, infection stopped. That is what layers are for, because the one filter that always…
PhishingI ran a college computer lab and spent two decades as Director of Computer Operations, back when the internet was still finding its shape. Understanding how it works is not about memorizing jargon. Here are ten practical steps to actually…
CybersecurityThe human layer is the biggest security weakness and the one people are least prepared for, because they do not expect the guy in the uniform, or the friendly caller, to be the attacker. You can harden every server and…
Business BooksTony stole $3,000 from me at 26, and twenty-five years later that con probably saved me thousands more when a Facebook scammer came calling. I thought I understood deception, I had worked in early computer security. Tony taught me otherwise.…
BackupsCoffee in hand, you open an email demanding $500 in Bitcoin to unlock your photos, tax records, and three-year novel, and yesterday's urgent delivery notice was the invitation. It happens thousands of times a day, and the habits that stop…
AI WritingYour phone holds your banking apps, your private photos, and the keys to your whole online life, and most writers guard it with nothing. One careless gap, a missing PIN, a reused password, turns a misplaced phone into a genuine…
Authority Through AuthorshipThose black-and-white squares hold up to 4,296 characters and work with any phone camera, making QR codes a wildly underused bridge from your printed book to email lists, bonus content, and sales, and a real security risk if you are…
CISOI ran PCI compliance at a national retailer for twenty years and passed every audit, then started ghostwriting books for the security leaders who live this work. Here is what nobody admits: passing an audit and being secure are not…
Book ROI & Business CaseFirst day of summer 2016 on AM 1380 WBEL: Don Rosen and Richard Lowe cover the DNC hack, spear phishing, CEO wire fraud, layered security for home users, disaster readiness, and why ghostwriting clients buy credibility, not royalties.
BackupsOne week after his debut, Richard Lowe returned to 3 Ps in a Podcast as CISA passed the Senate 74 to 21, covering the ransomware business, offline backups, spear phishing, Stuxnet, and the security questions of the Internet of Things.
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