Stop Taking Bad Advice. An Open Letter To The World

[00:00:12] Herein, honestly, I'm not sure whether to be excited or deeply concerned. This season on Cyber Crime Junkies, we're unleashing full-blown chaos. And I mean chaos. Real spies, actual double agents, AI behaving like it needs therapy, and cyber stories so freaking ridiculous you'll swear we made them up. But nope. Humanity really is that reckless.

[00:00:37] We've got interviews that feel like Netflix rejected them for being too real. AI demos that absolutely should not work, but somehow do. And educational moments sprinkled between all of us wondering how are people still falling for this? If you're a cybersecurity pro, a business leader, or just someone who enjoys watching digital dumpster fires from a safe distance,

[00:01:06] congratulations, this season is genetically engineered for you. New episodes every week. More games. More audience trolling. I mean participation. More cyber insanity wrapped in storytelling your compliance department definitely won't approve. Welcome to Season 8. Let the chaos begin. This is Cyber Crime Junkies.

[00:01:35] This is Cyber Crime Junkies. Let's get started. Oh, I know you're right. Have you ever noticed that cybersecurity awareness is either boring, taught by somebody who acts like they've never met a human, or like some movie trailer? Dark music, green coat, a kid in a hoodie.

[00:02:00] And as it turns out, the industry still never explains how people actually get hacked. See, in 90% of the breaches, it's people that get hacked. Real people. Like you and me. Not sophisticated mirror-raised and hyper-virtualized systems. People. That's what mostly happens. It happens because it's Tuesday.

[00:02:25] Someone's busy, coffee hasn't kicked in, and Mrs. Buttermaker over in the third floor cubicle with her 26 Chrome browser tabs open is clicking on links like it's an Olympic sport. We're calling on the industry to do one thing. Stop giving bad advice. Most breaches come down to two main things. Someone gets socially engineered, meaning manipulated, or something didn't get patched.

[00:02:52] So we're joining a growing list of security leaders in an open letter that's on hack lore, asking the industry to stop giving bad advice. Fear-based cyber messaging and cybersecurity training does not make anyone safer. It makes them paralyzed or bored. And bored people don't become vigilant. They become apathetic.

[00:03:19] And apathy is a good way to have a data breach. So slow down before clicking. Verify the truth before doing anything against your interests. And patch your systems on time. That's not exciting, but it works. See, cybersecurity doesn't fail because people are stupid. It fails because the industry teaches them to fear the wrong thing.

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