"Someone online shows them a 'trick' that feels harmless at first. Then the community pulls them in. Everyone's doing it. It feels like skill, not crime."

Two days at INTERPOL on youth cybercrime, why offender prevention is real police work and why it has to out-recruit rather than out-threaten.

In cybersecurity, attention has become one of our most valuable resources. Modern digital habits have fundamentally changed how we consume information, giving rise to "TikTok Brain." An environment of constant notifications, endless content streams and competing demands on our focus, has changed how we consume information and, more importantly, how we make decisions.

Remember when "social media safety" meant advising employees not to post pictures of their security badges or laptop screens?