Disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed are my own and do not reflect the views, policies, or positions of my employer or any organization with which I am affiliated. --- (Cyber)security awareness training (SAT) has long focused on recognizing threats inside the enterprise, but anyone who has dealt with a real compromise knows attacks rarely respect those boundaries. Real breaches are messy. They’re personal. They involve bad timing, strange messages, compromised friends, personal accounts, social media, reused credentials, AI-generated likenesses, family members, phone calls, desperation, embarrassment, deception, and sometimes outright threats or blackmail. Yet we teach security awareness with polished graphics, spotless templates, friendly AI-generated illustrations, and scenarios where the suspicious answer is practically given. What are we actually teaching people to recognize? The problem is that training today focuses too heavily on... Recognizing sp...
Disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed are my own and do not reflect the views, policies, or positions of my employer or any organization with which I am affiliated. ---- Who put a chip under their skin first? Depending on who you ask, you’ll hear Kevin Warwick , the British cybernetics professor behind Project Cyborg. He had a chip implanted in 1998. There’s a problem with that. Eduardo Kac had done a public microchip implantation in 1997. The dates are the easy part. What we mean by first, and whose work we decide counts, gets messier. ---- Chipped in São Paulo On November 11, 1997, Brazilian artist Eduardo Kac staged Time Capsule at Casa das Rosas in São Paulo. In front of seven family photographs, he inserted a passive identification transponder under the skin of his left ankle. The event was broadcast and participants could activate a scanner remotely to retrieve the number from the implant. Kac then registered himself in a U.S. database built to identi...