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.

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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.

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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.

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