KrebsOnSecurity celebrates its 14th 12 months of existence in the present day! I promised myself this put up wouldn’t devolve into one more Cybersecurity Yr in Evaluation. Nor do I want to maintain forth about no matter cyber horrors could await us in 2024. However I do wish to thanks all to your continued readership, encouragement and assist, with out which I couldn’t do what I do.

As of this birthday, I’ve formally been an unbiased investigative journalist for longer than I used to be a reporter for The Washington Put up (1995-2009). In fact, not when you depend the various 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 Govt 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 the very best factor he’d heard all day. Which in fact made my week, and made me really feel extra relaxed among the many fits.

I stay grateful to WaPo for instilling many expertise, equivalent to the best way to distill technobabble into plain English for a basic viewers. And the best way to make folks the main target of extremely technical tales. As a result of folks — 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 unbiased reporter factor nonetheless works, financially and in any other case. I largely simply hold my head down researching stuff and sharing what I discover, and by some means a great deal of folks hold coming again to the positioning. As I prefer to say, I hope they let me hold 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 e-mail e-newsletter, which is a elaborate time period for a plain textual content e-mail that goes out instantly every time a brand new story is revealed right here. Subscribing is free, we by no means share anybody’s e-mail deal with, 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 number of the most-read tales revealed by KrebsOnSecurity in 2023. Comfortable 2024 everybody!

Ten Years Later, New Clues within the Goal Breach
It’s Nonetheless Straightforward for Anybody to Change into You at Experian
Specialists Worry Crooks are Cracking Keys Stolen in LastPass Breach
Why is .US Being Used to Phish So Lots of US?
Few Fortune 100 Corporations Checklist Safety Execs in Their Govt 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 Knowledge
Hackers Declare They Breached T-Cell Extra Than 100 Occasions in 2022
Identification Thieves Bypassed Experian Safety to View Credit score Experiences