KrebsOnSecurity celebrates its 14th yr of existence right now! I promised myself this put up wouldn’t devolve into yet one more Cybersecurity Yr in Evaluate. Nor do I want to maintain forth about no matter cyber horrors might await us in 2024. However I do need to thanks all on your continued readership, encouragement and help, 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 Put up (1995-2009). After all, not if you happen to rely the numerous years I labored as a paperboy schlepping The Washington Put up 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 Put up, 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 gobbling 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 previous, 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 instructed me that was the perfect factor he’d heard all day. Which after all made my week, and made me really feel extra comfortable among the many fits.
I stay grateful to WaPo for instilling many abilities, corresponding to learn how to distill technobabble into plain English for a common viewers. And learn how to make folks the main target 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 attempting to explain how grateful I’m that this entire 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 in some way a great deal of folks preserve coming again to the location. As I wish to say, I hope they let me preserve doing this, as a result of I’m actually unqualified to do a lot else!
One other milestone of types: We’ve now amassed greater than 52,000 subscribers to our electronic mail e-newsletter, which is a elaborate time period for a plain textual content electronic mail that goes out instantly each time a brand new story is revealed right here. Subscribing is free, we by no means share anybody’s electronic mail tackle, 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 revealed by KrebsOnSecurity in 2023. Blissful 2024 everybody!
Ten Years Later, New Clues in the Target Breach
It’s Still Easy for Anyone to Become You at Experian
Experts Fear Crooks are Cracking Keys Stolen in LastPass Breach
Why is .US Being Used to Phish So Many of US?
Few Fortune 100 Firms List Security Pros in Their Executive Ranks
Who’s Behind the Domain Networks Snail Mail Scam?
Phishing Domains Tanked After Meta Sued Freenom
Many Public Salesforce Sites are Leaking Private Data
Hackers Claim They Breached T-Mobile More Than 100 Times in 2022
Identity Thieves Bypassed Experian Security to View Credit Reports