KrebsOnSecurity celebrates its 14th yr of existence at this time! I promised myself this submit wouldn’t devolve into one more Cybersecurity 12 months in Evaluate. Nor do I want to maintain forth about no matter cyber horrors could await us in 2024. However I do need to thanks all on your continued readership, encouragement and assist, with out which I couldn’t do what I do.
As of this birthday, I’ve formally been an impartial investigative journalist for longer than I used to be a reporter for The Washington Submit (1995-2009). In fact, not when you depend the numerous years I labored as a paperboy schlepping The Washington Submit to dozens of properties in Springfield, Va. (as a younger teen, I inherited a largish paper route handed down from my elder siblings).
True story: On the time I used to be employed as a lowly copy aide by The Washington Submit, all new hires — everybody from the mailroom and janitors on as much as the executives — had been invited to a proper dinner within the Govt Suite with the writer Don Graham. On the night of my new hires dinner, I used to be feeling underdressed, undershowered and misplaced. After gorging down some meals, I attempted to slink away to the elevator with one other copy aide, however was pulled apart by the man who employed me. “Hey Brian, not so quick! Come over and meet Don!”
I used to be 23 years outdated, and I had no clue what to say besides to inform him that paper route story, and that I’d already been working for him for half my life. Mr. Graham laughed and informed me that was the very best factor he’d heard all day. Which in fact made my week, and made me really feel extra relaxed among the many fits.
I stay grateful to WaPo for instilling many abilities, equivalent to the way to distill technobabble into plain English for a basic viewers. And the way to make folks the main focus of extremely technical tales. As a result of folks — and their everlasting struggles — are imminently relatable, no matter whether or not one has a full grasp of the technical particulars.
Phrases fail me when making an attempt to explain how grateful I’m that this complete impartial reporter factor nonetheless works, financially and in any other case. I principally simply preserve my head down researching stuff and sharing what I discover, and one way or the other a great deal of folks preserve coming again to the positioning. As I wish to say, I hope they let me preserve doing this, as a result of I’m definitely unqualified to do a lot else!
One other milestone of kinds: We’ve now amassed greater than 52,000 subscribers to our e mail publication, which is a elaborate time period for a plain textual content e mail that goes out instantly each time a brand new story is printed right here. Subscribing is free, we by no means share anybody’s e mail handle, and we don’t ship emails aside from new story notifications (2-3 per week).
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And in case you missed any of them, listed below are among the most-read tales printed by KrebsOnSecurity in 2023. Pleased 2024 everybody!
Ten Years Later, New Clues within the Goal Breach
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Why is .US Being Used to Phish So A lot of US?
Few Fortune 100 Companies Record Safety Professionals in Their Govt Ranks
Who’s Behind the Area Networks Snail Mail Rip-off?
Phishing Domains Tanked After Meta Sued Freenom
Many Public Salesforce Websites are Leaking Non-public Knowledge
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Identification Thieves Bypassed Experian Safety to View Credit score Reviews
