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JULY 8TH 2026

PRESS RELEASE: CYBERSECURITY VETERAN LAUNCHES THE BIG SECURITY TALK TO FIRE UP EMPLOYEE SECURITY AWARENESS

If You Really Want To Motivate Security Awareness, You Need To Bring In The Grandparents. READ MORE.

STORIES WORTH NOTING

JUNE 18 2026 – According to the World Economic Forum, cybercrime is evolving into a converged criminal economy that connects online fraud, ransomware, extortion, money laundering, human trafficking, organized crime and, in some cases, state-aligned activity, and our response has to converge faster. More.

JUNE 11 2026 – The Rise of CalPhishing Attacks in the Health Sector

RESEARCH

According to one of the biggest studies of its kind, cybersecurity training programs don’t prevent employees from falling for phishing scams and 75% of users engaged with the embedded training materials for a minute or less.

Anti-Phishing Training Does Not Work: A Large-Scale Empirical Assessment of Multi-Modal Training Grounded in the NIST Phish Scale, according to researchers from Purdue University.

Want to fire up employee security awareness? Bring in their grandparents

June 18, 2026/by Neal O'Farrell

No better awareness than an angry mob

June 12, 2026/by Neal O'Farrell

Cybersecurity Training Programs Don’t Prevent Employees from Falling for Phishing Scams

June 9, 2026/by Neal O'Farrell
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