The easiest way into a system is usually a person, not a firewall. These articles cover social engineering: how attackers manipulate people into opening the door, from a practitioner who was technical editor on Cyberheist for KnowBe4.
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…
Online Safety for WritersEvery like, share, and photo you post is data, collected, stored, analyzed, and frequently sold. Most people know that in the abstract and almost no one grasps it in practice. Drawing on 20 years running enterprise computer operations, here is…
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…
Scams & FraudMost social media audits are about looking professional: clean up the photos, polish the profile. That misses the real risk. Your posts, check-ins, and images are a map for anyone who wants to find you. Here is how to audit…
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.…
BackupsAttackers rarely come through the firewall; if they do, you were sloppy, because the firewall is the easy part. The real vectors are social engineering and the insider, and the insider is the most common and most overlooked. Two decades…
CybersecurityA ninety-minute BlogTalk Radio conversation where the host brought her real scam encounters and Richard Lowe explained each con from the inside, plus password strategy, the deleted-file myth, and a second hour on respect.
BackupsRichard Lowe joined 3 Ps in a Podcast as the featured guest for a full episode on security habits, social engineering, ransomware, and the CISA bill, closing with the best practices from Safe Computing Is Like Safe Sex.
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