Phishing for Answers
Cybersecurity for every audience.
Not your typical cyber blog.
Welcome to Phishing for Answers, a site that provides information about cyber news, technology policy, and information security management.
This blog is intended to inform every type of reader, from experienced professionals to those with a general interest in cybersecurity. Because online data protection is first and foremost a human problem, Phishing for Answers strives to publish content that can be consumed by everyone.
Cybersecurity Book Club: “Tracers in the Dark” by Andy Greenberg (Part 2)
This week, we introduce Part 2 of our series about Andy Greenberg’s book, Tracers in the Dark. Find out how a team of law enforcement agents used cryptocurrency analysis to take down one of the largest darknet sites in history.
Cybersecurity Book Club: “Tracers in the Dark” by Andy Greenberg (Part 1)
For years, criminals used Bitcoin to encrypt and anonymize their activities on the dark net - until investigators found a way to trace these payments. In Part 1 of our two-part series about Andy Greenberg’s book, Tracers in the Dark, we analyze how law enforcement regained the ability to hunt down digital crime lords.
Cybersecurity Book Club: “This is How They Tell Me the World Ends” by Nicole Perlroth
For decades, zero-day exploits have been hunted by criminal hackers, security firms, and even national governments. In this quarter’s Cybersecurity Book Club choice, This is How They Tell Me the World Ends, author Nicole Perlroth details the secretive world of zero-day hacking and its impact on global cyber warfare.
Cybersecurity Book Club: “The Cyber Effect” by Dr. Mary Aiken
We are now more aware than ever of the negative effects technology can have on users. But how exactly has the digital world impacted the human experience? This quarter’s Cybersecurity Book Club choice, The Cyber Effect by Dr. Mary Aiken, aims to answer all of our questions about why technology tends to be so addictive and time-consuming, how it impacts child development, and how it facilitates criminal activity.
Cybersecurity Book Club: “Information Wars” by Richard Stengel
This quarter’s Cybersecurity Book Club choice is Information Wars: How We Lost the Global Battle Against Disinformation and What We Can Do about It by Richard Stengel. Find out more about one man’s fight against online disinformation and what he learned.
Cybersecurity Book Club: “Sandworm” by Andy Greenberg
This quarter’s Cybersecurity Book Club book choice is Sandworm: A New Era of Cyberwar and the Hunt for the Kremlin’s Most Dangerous Hackers, by Andy Greenberg. Learn more about elite Russian hacking groups and the future of cyber warfare.