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KrebsOnSecurity celebrates its 14th yr of existence immediately! I promised myself this submit wouldn’t devolve into yet one more Cybersecurity Year in Review. Nor do I want to maintain forth about no matter cyber horrors might await us in 2024. But I do wish 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 Post (1995-2009). Of course, not should you rely the numerous years I labored as a paperboy schlepping The Washington Post 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: At the time I used to be employed as a lowly copy aide by The Washington Post, all new hires — everybody from the mailroom and janitors on as much as the executives — have been invited to a proper dinner within the Executive 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 fast! 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 one of the best factor he’d heard all day. Which in fact made my week, and made me really feel extra comfortable among the many fits.
I stay grateful to WaPo for instilling many expertise, corresponding to tips on how to distill technobabble into plain English for a basic viewers. And tips on how to make folks the main focus of extremely technical tales. Because folks — and their everlasting struggles — are imminently relatable, no matter whether or not one has a full grasp of the technical particulars.
Words 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 largely simply hold my head down researching stuff and sharing what I discover, and in some way a great deal of folks hold coming again to the positioning. As I prefer to say, I hope they let me hold doing this, as a result of I’m definitely unqualified to do a lot else!
Another 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 at any time when a brand new story is printed right here. Subscribing is free, we by no means share anybody’s electronic mail tackle, and we don’t ship emails apart from new story notifications (2-3 per week).
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And in case you missed any of them, listed here are a few of the most-read tales printed by KrebsOnSecurity in 2023. Happy 2024 everybody!
Ten Years Later, New Clues within 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