As I was walking off a flight this last Friday, a flight attendant handed me a small handwritten card thanking me for my loyalty.
It took almost no time for them to write, but it landed better than most so-called premium experiences. Not because of some airline status. […]
This question comes up constantly, both with iPhones and Androids.
In the vast majority of text phishing (smishing) cases, clicking a malicious link does not install malware on your phone like a traditional app.
What usually happens instead:
• The malicious code runs in memory
• Often inside the browser or […]
A BEC Scam isn’t a hack. It’s a failure to verify.
Several years ago, Risk Control Strategies worked its first Business Email Compromise case.
More than $600,000 had been redirected to fraudsters in China. Our review of the evidence established a simple but damaging truth: two court-ordered judgment payments […]
Hundreds of lowriders up and down the boulevard. Not a few, hundreds… cruising, parked along the curb, and filling the parking lots between Vine and the 101. Show-quality cars with lots of chrome glowing under streetlights. At first glance it looked like a hard crowd, but it […]
Last week we went to Disneyland Paris, and I noticed something that most people walk right past. The cast members directing traffic ahead of Mickey’s Dazzling Christmas Parade weren’t just in uniform. They were wearing the same shoes.
Uniforms are expected, but shoes are a choice. That level […]
I took this photo last week, in Scotland, of a faerie circle with Dunure Castle in the background.
The castle dates back to the 1200s and once hosted Mary, Queen of Scots in 1563. Centuries of power, loyalty, and betrayal played out there before it was ultimately gutted […]