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The Root of Every Hack: Why It Always Starts With a Human
The Root of Every Hack: Why It Always Starts With a Human
Send us Fan Mail Every major breach you've ever heard about — the stolen data, the ransomware, the drained accounts — traces back to the same starting point, and it isn't a genius in a hoodie cracking code. It's a person who clicked, answered, or trusted the wrong thing. This week Jus and I make the case that social engineering is the root cause of nearly all hacking and infiltration. We walk through how attackers skip the firewall entirely and go straight for the human — the phishing email, ...