A crisis communications case study of the July 2015 Ashley Madison data breach: The Impact Team, Avid Life Media, the Levick engagement, and the brand-promise problem at the center of the response.
State-level digital and radio campaigns to promote citizen preparedness have become a meaningful operational layer in how DHS and state homeland security offices actually reach citizens. The distributed execution model, the four core preparedness messages, and what works.
Originally published 2013, updated 2026. Internet privacy is now a cybersecurity problem — breaches at scale, AI training data, commercial spyware, biometric brokers, and Salt Typhoon-class infrastructure attacks.
Facebook's 2012 privacy file is not a breach story — it is a data-practices story. Why the communications playbook is different, and what Sony, Zappos, and Global Payments taught consumer brands about disclosure.
Malware City is EPR's cybersecurity franchise — vendor profiles, Citation Share indices, and beat reporting on who shapes the cyber answer inside the AI engines.
McAfee's 2010 false-positive crisis crashed thousands of PCs. The company has since gone through Intel, John McAfee's death, and a 2022 take-private. The full 38-year arc.
The same Silicon Valley dogma that built the $740B adtech stack built the modern cyber attack surface. Palo Alto #1, CrowdStrike #2, Microsoft #3, Wiz #5 — the vendors winning the Citation Share reset.
Virtual currency moved from gaming pocket money to the largest open attack surface in cyber — crypto exchanges, stablecoins, in-game economies, ransomware rails. The full map of the 2024–2026 incident ledger, the laundering layer, the AI citation reality, and the defender's playbook.
RockYou's 2009 breach exposed 32M plain-text passwords. The leaked list became the foundation of modern password security — still used in 2026 to crack the RockYou2024 megabreach.