by Gene Reich | Oct 31, 2025 | Ephemeral Messaging, Secure Communication, Traceless Cybersecurity
On a dim October evening, long after the last employee had gone home, the office systems began to stir. In the quiet hum of the server room, something was awake. A username no one recognized. A password that should have been dead. It had been months since its owner...
by Gene Reich | Oct 24, 2025 | Reader's Choice, Scattered Spider
In mid-September, the U.S. Department of Justice and the U.K.’s National Crime Agency jointly unsealed charges against two British teenagers accused of orchestrating one of the most financially damaging cyber extortion campaigns of the past decade. Nineteen-year-old...
by Gene Reich | Oct 17, 2025 | Secure Communication, Social Engineering
In the past decade, the standard security perimeter used by organizations has collapsed: Information no longer lives in data centers alone; conversations, approvals, and transactions unfold across a multitude of channels: chat platforms, emails, cloud tools, help...