Phishing has shaped the internet more than any other online threat. It began with simple impersonation on AOL and has since adapted to every new communication platform, from email to mobile messaging. Yet, despite decades of technological progress, the technique itself has barely changed. What’s different today is not how
Palo Alto Networks recently described a “sophisticated global smishing operation” built on a complex ecosystem of brokers, developers, and spammers. The language is familiar. Every major vendor publishes similar reports each year, filled with technical diagrams and claims of evolution and complexity. Yet the outcome never changes. People are still
Picture this. You manage security for a government agency or large corporation and you need a reliable way to protect employees from phishing on mobile devices. You will learn what Zero Trust means for web links, how it differs from threat detection, what a Cloudflare and iVerify announcement really does,
Imagine buying a smoke alarm and being told by the company, “We’ll protect you from fires, but stay vigilant in case one we haven’t seen before engulfs your home.” You’d think they’d lost their minds. Nobody buys a safety device that shifts responsibility back to the user the moment it’s
OpenAI’s new browser, Atlas, feels like a glimpse of the future. It’s fast, elegant, and powered by an AI that can explain, summarise, and search across everything you see online. But beneath the excitement lies a quiet omission that repeats one of the web’s oldest mistakes. Atlas launched without support
Paul Walsh
MetaCert CEO & Founder
This is blog is authored by Paul Walsh, one of the first people impersonated online while at AOL in 1996. His work focuses on the psychology of cybercrime. Former FBI profiler Jim Clemente put it best: “Paul, what you do is similar to an FBI profiler.” It’s an investigation into human deception - powered by technology built to stop it.
Phishing has shaped the internet more than any other online threat. It began with simple impersonation on AOL and has since adapted to every new communication platform, from email to mobile messaging. Yet, despite decades of technological progress, the technique itself has barely changed. What’s different
Palo Alto Networks recently described a “sophisticated global smishing operation” built on a complex ecosystem of brokers, developers, and spammers. The language is familiar. Every major vendor publishes similar reports each year, filled with technical diagrams and claims of evolution and complexity. Yet the outcome never
Picture this. You manage security for a government agency or large corporation and you need a reliable way to protect employees from phishing on mobile devices. You will learn what Zero Trust means for web links, how it differs from threat detection, what a Cloudflare and
Imagine buying a smoke alarm and being told by the company, “We’ll protect you from fires, but stay vigilant in case one we haven’t seen before engulfs your home.” You’d think they’d lost their minds. Nobody buys a safety device that shifts responsibility back to the
OpenAI’s new browser, Atlas, feels like a glimpse of the future. It’s fast, elegant, and powered by an AI that can explain, summarise, and search across everything you see online. But beneath the excitement lies a quiet omission that repeats one of the web’s oldest mistakes.
Paul Walsh
MetaCert CEO & Founder
This blog is authored by Paul Walsh, one of the first people impersonated online while helping to launch new Internet technology at AOL in 1996. His work focuses on the psychology of cybercrime. Former FBI profiler Jim Clemente put it best: “Paul, what you do is similar to an FBI profiler.” It’s an investigation into human deception - powered by technology built to stop it.