Aaron Higbee News Today

1980: “Go fish.” What you must do when you guess incorrectly in the kids’ card game, “Go Fish.”

Entrepreneurs, government officials, cybersecurity experts, venture capitalists, and others people who lead the growing Washington tech scene.

Decentralized technologies may raise CISOs anxiety levels, but there are ways to ward off security risks.

Credential phishing continues to be the top threat facing organizations, increasing 10 percentage points since 2020, accounting for 67 percent of all phishing emails now observed.

Washington’s tech industry hasn’t been immune to the pandemic. Companies such as the IT giant DXC and the event-organizing platform Cvent cut jobs amid the slowdown. But some, including the hot cloud-computing company Appian, committed to hundreds of new hires. Indeed, plenty of other good business news came from Washingtonian’s Tech Titans during the past year. Our 2021 winners—who were selected through both reporting and an informal process of nominations from their peers—managed to...

You know not to click on links in sketchy emails. Everybody does by now. And yet, people fall for phishing attacks all the time. And thats the whole point. If phishing didnt work, attackers would have abandoned it a long time ago. Instead, its everywhere. Coronavirus-related phishing scams cropped up quickly worldwide in January 2020 shortly after pandemic lockdowns began in China. And the technique is a perennial favorite of criminal scammers and nation state hackers alike. Phishing scams work...