by Gene Reich | Sep 22, 2025 | Deception As A Service, Identity Verification, Secure Communication, Social Engineering
From Phishing Kits to Full-Service Fraud Two decades ago, the most a criminal could hope to sell online was a basic phishing kit. These were crude templates, often copied from bank websites, that allowed even unsophisticated actors to send convincing looking emails....
by Gene Reich | Sep 19, 2025 | Ephemeral Messaging, Secure Communication, Social Engineering, Traceless Cybersecurity
In every modern organization, information flows constantly. Password resets, access requests, API keys, and sensitive files all move between people and systems as part of everyday work. Most of the time, these exchanges happen without a second thought. A technician...
by Gene Reich | Sep 15, 2025 | Ephemeral Messaging, Reader's Choice, Social Engineering, Traceless Cybersecurity, Trends
How Compliance Frameworks Took Center Stage Modern cybersecurity is framed not only around technology but also regulation. Beginning in the 1990s, governments and industries began codifying the rules of data protection. HIPAA was introduced in 1996, setting out...
by Gene Reich | Sep 8, 2025 | Cybersecurity Threats, Secure Communication, Trends
The Long Shadow of a 1970s Convenience In 1971, a computer engineer named Ray Tomlinson was working on ARPANET, the experimental network that would later evolve into the internet. As part of a small side project, he typed out a test message and sent it from one...
