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Guides and articles on phishing, online safety and privacy — for families and security teams alike.
Phishing test for employees: how to measure real risk
What to test, which channels matter now, how to score it, and why one fake email isn’t enough.
READ →Phishing simulation vs security awareness test
How the two differ, where each one fits, and what to look for in a phishing simulation alternative.
READ →Preparing your SIEM for real-world attacks
Start from the attacks actually happening, then work back to the log sources, ATT&CK coverage and correlation that catch them.
READ →How to detect Shadow AI with your SIEM
Spot sensitive data sent to AI tools, AI-agent and API-key abuse, AI crawlers and prompt injection, from logs you already have.
READ →Detecting a red team or pentest with your SIEM
The logs, event IDs and correlation rules that catch external scanning, AD recon, Kerberoasting, Impacket and C2.
READ →Can AI help improve your SIEM?
Where AI genuinely helps a SOC, where it doesn’t, and the privacy questions to ask before your logs become a prompt.
READ →How to make your SIEM smarter
Correlate attack stages, add context and tune what you have: how to get fewer, better alerts from the same SIEM.
READ →Deploying best-practice SIEM use cases
Choose, convert, test, tune and deploy best-practice detections with Sigma and MITRE ATT&CK, and keep them working.
READ →Building SIEM use cases from your log sources
Lots of log sources, few useful alerts? A practical way to turn the data you already collect into security use cases.
READ →How to reduce SIEM costs without losing detection
SIEM bills grow with every gigabyte. Find the data no detection uses, then route, drop or tune it without losing coverage.
READ →Choosing a phishing-protection extension for Chrome
Chrome already blocks known bad sites. Know which gap you are closing — and what to check before installing anything.
READ →How to block fake websites in Chrome
Four layers, in the order worth doing them — from a thirty-second setting to blocking pages nobody has reported yet.
READ →Browser protection for online banking
Your bank protects its side well. The gap is whether the page asking for your login is really theirs.
READ →Are links in ChatGPT and AI answers safe?
AI assistants hand out links routinely, wrapped in confident prose and stripped of the clues you normally use.
READ →Why Microsoft Defender still needs browser-layer protection
Defender covers email, endpoint and identity. The gap is structural, not a weakness — and it sits in the browser.
READ →Adding recurring security revenue on every managed seat
Most MSPs sell security as projects. The providers growing fastest moved it into the per-seat line.
READ →Deploying browser security across a client fleet with Intune
Force-installing a managed extension is well-trodden ground. Here is the shape of it, and what catches people out.
READ →QR-code phishing: what MSPs should tell clients about quishing
A QR code moves the attack to an unmanaged device. That single property defeats several controls at once.
READ →Phishing statistics 2026: the key numbers, sourced
FBI, APWG, IBM and Verizon figures collected in one place — US$20.9B in losses, 191,561 complaints, sourced and updated quarterly.
READ →The phishing glossary: every term, in plain language
AiTM, BitB, quishing, ClickFix, BEC — 34 terms defined in under 80 words each, with linkable anchors.
READ →Black Friday & Cyber Monday scams: how to shop safely
Fake shops, cloned checkouts and deal texts spike every November. The checks that catch them before you pay.
READ →Tax season phishing: refund lures and agency impersonation
Refund baits, threat calls and fake filing portals arrive on schedule every year. The rules that hold in every country.
READ →Holiday delivery scams: the December parcel playbook
When everyone has parcels in transit, fake courier texts stop looking fake. How to handle every delivery message safely.
READ →“We have MFA” — is that enough?
MFA blocks 99% of password attacks — but modern phishing steals the session token after you pass it. Why MFA alone no longer stops phishing.
READ →Why phishing awareness training doesn’t work
The biggest study yet found training barely moves the needle — and the latest attacks are built to beat the one thing it teaches.
READ →The economics of phishing: $120 in, $4M out
A campaign costs an attacker ~$120. A breach costs you millions. The brutal asymmetry behind why phishing dominates.
READ →Phishing is the tip of the iceberg
The click is just the entrance. See the ransomware, BEC and downtime that follow — and what it really costs a business.
READ →What are phishing kits?
Phishing is now a subscription business that bypasses MFA. What kits are, and why they power most attacks today.
READ →The anatomy of a phishing attack
Phishing keeps beating better technology because it never aimed at your technology. The six stages of an attack — and the psychology that makes it work.
READ →The latest phishing techniques in 2026
AiTM, browser-in-the-browser, quishing, ClickFix, AI deepfakes, vishing. The techniques defining 2026 — and the defense each one is built to beat.
READ →Antivirus, VPN, MFA: what actually stops phishing?
You already own security tools. Here’s what each one really stops — and the gap they all leave open.
READ →Is a browser security extension safe to install?
It can read your pages — so should you trust it? How to vet one, and what a good extension never does.
READ →The best phishing protection in 2026
Email gateways, DNS filtering, isolation, training, passkeys, real-time detection — honestly compared.
READ →Free phishing protection: what you actually get
What the free browser protection covers, what paid adds, and why free is genuinely worth installing.
READ →Tech-support scams & fake virus pop-ups
The scary “your computer is infected” pop-up, explained — with the red flags and what to do.
READ →Fake online stores & shopping scams
Too-good deals, cloned checkouts and fake stores — how to spot one before you enter your card.
READ →Fake delivery scams: the “package held” text
“Pay a small fee to release your parcel.” Why the delivery scam works, and how to beat it.
READ →Job & recruitment scams
A dream remote job from a recruiter you never contacted. The signs of a fake offer.
READ →Protecting elderly parents from online scams
Older adults lose the most. The scams that target them, and practical steps to protect your parents.
READ →Stop phishing with no IT team
You don’t need a security team. A five-step plan small businesses can actually run.
READ →Phishing by industry: who gets targeted
Finance, healthcare, legal, education, retail — what attackers want from each, and why costs vary.
READ →How real-time phishing detection works
Blocklists react to known attacks. How judging the page as it loads catches the ones no one has reported yet.
READ →How referral-URL monitoring catches brand-impersonation phishing
Phishing kits send victims to your real site to avoid suspicion — and that redirect can leave a fingerprint in your logs. Here’s how to use it.
READ →Quiz: could you spot the fake?
12 real-world scams and genuine messages. Most people miss a few — see how you score in 2 minutes.
TAKE THE TEST →Why EDR & antivirus miss web-based threats
Work moved into the browser, and so did the attacks — a layer endpoint tools were never built to see.
READ →What is zero-day phishing — and why filters miss it
How never-before-seen phishing slips past traditional defences, and what catches it.
READ →How to spot a fake login page
Practical signs that a login page isn't what it claims to be.
READ →Protecting your family online: a simple guide
Everyday steps to keep kids, parents and grandparents safe from scams.
READ →Business email compromise, explained
How BEC attacks work and how to defend high-value targets.
READ →Brand impersonation 101
Why scammers clone your brand, and how takedowns work.
READ →Security without surveillance
How protection can work without collecting your browsing.
READ →How to tell if a website is safe
A 2026 checklist for telling a safe site from a scam — before you log in or pay.
READ →I clicked a phishing link — what to do now
A calm, step-by-step guide to limiting the damage in the next few minutes.
READ →What is quishing? QR code scams explained
How QR-code phishing hides malicious links that email filters can't read.
READ →How to spot a phishing email
The red flags that give away a phishing email — and the checks that catch the rest.
READ →Smishing: how to spot fake text scams
Fake delivery alerts, bank warnings and 'wrong number' texts, decoded.
READ →Is this email a scam? A 60-second check
Five quick checks to judge any suspicious email in under a minute.
READ →How to check if a link is safe before you click
Preview where a link really goes — in emails, texts and on pages — before you click.
READ →How to report a phishing website or scam
Where to report scam sites, emails and texts so they get blocked faster.
READ →Why blocklists fail against never-before-seen threats
Why list-based and DNS filtering miss new, aged, “pickled,” and compromised domains.
READ →Independent research puts SafeToOpen to the test
Researchers tested browser extensions against live spear-phishing — here’s what they found.
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