Bruno Revelant 
Your smartphone is the most sensitive device you own. It knows your precise location history going back years. It stores your email, through which an attacker can reset every other account you own. It contains your banking app, your health records, your personal photos, your messages, your contacts, and in many cases the authentication codes … Read more
Most people believe they have a reasonable understanding of their social media privacy. They have set their profiles to “friends only,” they do not post their home address, and they think carefully about what photos to share. These are genuinely good practices — but they address only the surface layer of what social media platforms … Read more
When you visit a website, you initiate dozens of invisible data exchanges that have nothing to do with the content you came to read. The average web page loads resources from approximately 70 different third-party domains — analytics services, advertising networks, social media widgets, content delivery systems. Each of those connections can log your IP … Read more
In 2024, Americans lost $16.6 billion to internet crime according to the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center — the highest total ever recorded. Investment fraud alone accounted for $6.57 billion. Business email compromise added $2.77 billion more. These are not crimes perpetrated exclusively against people who are old, naive, or technologically unfamiliar. Research consistently shows … Read more
Coffee shops, airports, hotels, hospitals, shopping centers — free Wi-Fi has become as expected in public spaces as running water. Over a billion people connect to public Wi-Fi networks every day. Most connect without a second thought, often for good reason: modern encryption has made casual browsing on public networks substantially safer than it was … Read more
In May 2017, ransomware called WannaCry infected over 200,000 computers across 150 countries in a matter of days. The UK’s National Health Service was forced to cancel over 19,000 appointments and turn away ambulances from affected hospitals. The Spanish telecommunications giant Telefónica was hit. FedEx lost over $300 million in the aftermath. The estimated total … Read more
Picture this scenario: a company you have used for years — a retailer, a streaming service, a health app — suffers a data breach. Your email and password are in the leaked data. The attacker takes that combination and, within hours, tries it on Gmail, Outlook, your bank’s website, and 50 other services. This is … Read more
Here is a number worth sitting with: the average person managed approximately 170 online accounts in 2024. Not 20 or 30 — 170. Passwords for email, banking, streaming services, shopping platforms, work tools, health portals, insurance accounts, government services, social media, and dozens of others accumulate silently over years. Security experts unanimously recommend using a … Read more
In 2024, the most commonly stolen password in data breaches was still “123456.” Not a clever variation. Not something that made even a minimal effort at security. Just a string of six sequential numbers that any automated tool can crack in under one millisecond. According to NordPass’s annual analysis, the top 10 most common passwords … Read more
The FBI received over 193,000 phishing complaints in 2024 — making it the single most reported cybercrime category in the United States that year. Financial losses from phishing nearly quadrupled year-on-year, rising from $18.7 million in reported losses in 2023 to over $70 million in 2024. Those numbers represent real people: a parent clicking a … Read more