Week 1 of 31 Days Safer, one layer deeper. The daily tips gave you the moves; this post gives you the why — how credential stuffing, SIM-swapping, and social-media recon actually work, and why your accounts are a chain attackers pull at the weakest link. Non-technical, but technically accurate.

What I'm building this October: two anchor projects — the 31 Days Safer challenge and an open-source detection skill that maps alerts to MITRE ATT&CK — plus an "open workbench" where Hacktoberfest's weekly challenges are letting me explore what else I can build within the brand.

There are a hundred cybersecurity challenges this October, and most are the same checklist. This one's different: it teaches the reason behind every habit, not just the rule — the "does this belong here?" detection lens a SOC analyst uses on every alert, aimed at your own digital life.