KrebsOnSecurity celebrates its 14th 12 months of existence immediately! I promised myself this submit wouldn’t devolve into one more Cybersecurity 12 months in Assessment. Nor do I want to maintain forth about no matter cyber horrors might await us in 2024. However 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 unbiased investigative journalist for longer than I used to be a reporter for The Washington Publish (1995-2009). In fact, not if you happen to depend the various years I labored as a paperboy schlepping The Washington Publish 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 Publish, all new hires — everybody from the mailroom and janitors on as much as the executives — have 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I used to be 23 years outdated, and I had no clue what to say besides to inform him that paper route story, and that I’d already been working for him for half my life.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 instructed me that was the perfect 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, similar to tips on how to distill technobabble into plain English for a common viewers. And tips on how 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 entire unbiased reporter factor nonetheless works, financially and in any other case. I largely simply maintain my head down researching stuff and sharing what I discover, and one way or the other a great deal of folks maintain coming again to the positioning. As I wish to say, I hope they let me maintain doing this, as a result of I’m actually unqualified to do a lot else!
One other milestone of kinds: We’ve now amassed greater than 52,000 subscribers to our e-mail e-newsletter, which is a elaborate time period for a plain textual content e-mail that goes out instantly every 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 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 number of the most-read tales printed by KrebsOnSecurity in 2023. Glad 2024 everybody!
Ten Years Later, New Clues within the Goal Breach
It’s Nonetheless Straightforward for Anybody to Grow to be You at Experian
Specialists Worry Crooks are Cracking Keys Stolen in LastPass Breach
Why is .US Being Used to Phish So A lot of US?
Few Fortune 100 Companies Listing 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 Information
Hackers Declare They Breached T-Cellular Extra Than 100 Instances in 2022
Identification Thieves Bypassed Experian Safety to View Credit score Reviews
