Happy 14th Birthday, KrebsOnSecurity! – Krebs on Security

KrebsOnSecurity celebrates its 14th yr of existence at the moment! I promised myself this put up wouldn’t devolve into yet one more Cybersecurity Yr in Assessment. Nor do I want to maintain forth about no matter cyber horrors might await us in 2024. However I do need 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 impartial investigative journalist for longer than I used to be a reporter for The Washington Put up (1995-2009). After all, not if you happen to depend the numerous years I labored as a paperboy schlepping The Washington Put up to dozens of houses 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 Put up, all new hires — everybody from the mailroom and janitors on as much as the executives — have been invited to a proper dinner within the Government 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 previous, 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 advised me that was one of the best factor he’d heard all day. Which in fact made my week, and made me really feel extra comfy among the many fits.

I stay grateful to WaPo for instilling many abilities, corresponding to the best way to distill technobabble into plain English for a common viewers. And the best way to make individuals the main focus of extremely technical tales. As a result of individuals — 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 attempting to explain how grateful I’m that this complete impartial reporter factor nonetheless works, financially and in any other case. I largely simply preserve my head down researching stuff and sharing what I discover, and someway a great deal of individuals preserve coming again to the positioning. As I prefer to say, I hope they let me preserve doing this, as a result of I’m actually unqualified to do a lot else!

One other milestone of types: We’ve now amassed greater than 52,000 subscribers to our electronic mail e-newsletter, which is a flowery time period for a plain textual content electronic mail that goes out instantly each time a brand new story is printed right here. Subscribing is free, we by no means share anybody’s electronic mail tackle, and we don’t ship emails aside from new story notifications (2-3 per week).

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And in case you missed any of them, listed here are a few of the most-read tales printed by KrebsOnSecurity in 2023. Comfortable 2024 everybody!

Ten Years Later, New Clues within the Goal Breach
It’s Nonetheless Straightforward for Anybody to Grow to be You at Experian
Consultants Concern Crooks are Cracking Keys Stolen in LastPass Breach
Why is .US Being Used to Phish So Lots of US?
Few Fortune 100 Companies Listing Safety Execs in Their Government 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-Cell Extra Than 100 Instances in 2022
Id Thieves Bypassed Experian Safety to View Credit score Stories