AI-Era Security Awareness: Deepfakes, Cloning, and Phishing

The security training most people received taught them to spot bad grammar and odd domains. Those signals described attacker constraints that no longer exist, and checking for them now produces false confidence. This cursus covers what actually changed, why recognition is no longer identity, and the one defence that holds regardless of how good generation gets: verifying the request out of band rather than judging the person. It ends on the risk running the other way, from the AI tools you bring in yourself.