Deb Radcliff — On the Cybercrime Beat

Deb Radcliff has been covering the cybercrime beat since 1996 after researching a best-selling book about Kevin Mitnick, an infamous hacker on the run from the FBI. She has since written thousands of articles about cybercrime and cybersecurity for business, tech, and consumer magazines. She started her popular Online Crime Bytes blog in 2000 to post to a non-technical audience about cybercrime and continues to post to that blog today. For a history of Deb’s articles, visit the archives.

Currently, Radcliff hosts the Cy Beat Podcast with ITSP Magazine, where she personalizes the hackers and infosec professionals who she’s immersed with over the past thirty years. Find her most recent interviews here.

She is the editor-in-chief of Shift Left Academy, where she conducts interviews with experts in secure software development. These articles are syndicated at Security Boulevard and at the Shift Left Academy YouTube Channel.

Radcliff also still vents about cybercrime in her Online Crime Bytes Blog. Year over year, her most read blog is about the cash forwarding scam, in which sellers and job seekers are offered money and then asked to send some back (they lose it all).

Radcliff is a regular contributing writer to CSO Online.

Some Highlighted Articles from CSO Online:

• Deb Radcliff gets exclusive interview with Joe Sullivan, former CSO at Uber, after he was convicted and sentenced for "covering up" a breach to the FTC, May 2023.
• How the new deepfake danger will impact cyber insurance, June 2023
• When blaming the user is unfair—or just plain wrong, December 2022
• The metaverse brings a new breed of threats to challenge privacy and security gatekeepers, January 2023
  If your organization isn’t already moving into the metaverse, it soon will be. Be warned: today’s security protocols and privacy laws may not apply to 3D worlds.
• The deepfake danger: When it wasn’t you on that Zoom call, September 2022
  Deb interviews the co-founder of the largest crypto currency platform in the world after his image and voice were deep-faked in 20-minute Zoom calls with investors.
• How the Russia-Ukraine war makes ransomware payments harder, June 2022
  The war in Ukraine has increased sanctions against paying ransom demands to cybercriminal groups and cryptocurrency intermediaries based in Russia.
• 10 pioneering women in information security, March 2022
  As Women's History Month comes to close, we introduce you (hopefully not for the first time) to some women who broke new ground in infosec, national security, and computer science.