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I’m Not in IT or Security – Why Should I Care?

May 13, 2026

Big companies have security teams, monitoring tools, incident response plans, and lawyers. You have the same password you’ve been using since 2014 and a router you’ve never logged into.

I’m not saying that to make you feel bad. I’m saying it because it’s the single most important thing to understand about modern cybercrime: scale beats sophistication every time. Why spend weeks trying to break into a bank when you can send a convincing text message to a million people and wait for a few thousand of them to click?

You are not too small to matter. You are too easy to resist.

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The Fish Did It!

The lobby aquarium had an internet-connected thermometer — so staff could monitor the water temperature remotely, presumably from the couch, as one does. Attackers found it, used it to pivot onto the network, located the High Roller database, and walked out with 10GB of data. Through. The. Fish. Tank.

Now here’s the part that should actually keep you up at night: that thermometer is basically your printer.

And your smart refrigerator. And your kid’s drone. And the Star Wars toy that connects to the internet for reasons nobody fully explained. And the microwave that plays Spotify, because apparently we decided ovens needed WiFi now.