Threat Insights

What a gift-card impersonation attempt inside a Bible Study Fellowship email chain teaches the rest of us about trust, exposure, and the personal connection that stops fraud. Last week, my Bible Study Fellowship email chain filled up with requests for Amazon gift cards. It was a targeted impersonation attempt — someone borrowing the names and…

September 11, 2026 marks the 25th anniversary of the attacks on the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and the likely Capitol target stopped by passengers over Pennsylvania. It also opens Rosh Hashanah at sundown. That alignment should be a red flag for every Western-aligned threat intelligence agency globally. Yet there has been little mainstream reporting…

In Washington State, attempting to rape a 14- or 15-year-old is a gross misdemeanor. Here is how the law got there, and the public-records playbook advocates can use to hold the system accountable.

Why Combating Cybercrime Is Everyone’s Duty Cybercrime has become so common that many people have grown numb to it. Perhaps it’s because cybersecurity and cybercrime investigations are my profession, but I seem to hear about another victim almost every week. Recently, while attending a baseball game, someone shared the story of a local construction company…

This podcast was generated with artificial intelligence for listeners entertainment and convenience. It is based on the human authored “Washington’s Data Breach Crisis: 2026 Breach Count Already Rivals 2024’s Record” published on Tuesday, 2 June. While I (Joanna Wiggum) am biased towards the written form of this content, and would love for all listeners to…

Washington sent 11.6 million data breach notices in 2024, more than its entire population. At the current pace, 2026 will break that year’s breach count record, and the state’s notification law still gives organizations room to wait before telling you.

This podcast episode was AI generated for your entertainment and convenience, leveraging a fully authentic human written blog, which the author (me), hopes you will find even better than the short listen. Tim was under-appreciated, board, anxious, and job-hunting. He’d been working for a well know coffee and treats company for several years. Although he’d…

Tim was under-appreciated, board, anxious, and job-hunting. He’d been working for a well know coffee and treats company for several years. Although he’d survived the first round of lay-offs, more were coming, and soon. He thought he was a pretty good senior engineer, holding a bachelors in computer science and sporting over a decade of…