About Red Flag Cyber

Red Flag Cyber is a no-hype cybersecurity project: 60-second tips that tell regular people how to stay safe online, without scare tactics and without invented statistics.

What it is

• A YouTube channel publishing short, faceless explainer videos every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday — each one a single practical topic: phishing, passwords, MFA, updates, Wi-Fi, and the rest.
• This website, where every video becomes a full article you can read, search, and share.
• Regular "Can you spot the phish?" quiz videos — a realistic phishing email on screen, and you're asked to count the red flags before the reveal.

Accuracy first

Every claim on this site and channel traces back to an authoritative source — CISA, NIST, the FCC, or the vendor's own documentation. If a claim can't be verified, it gets cut. No made-up statistics, no fear-mongering. Sources are listed on every article.

The research desk

Everything published here is bylined to the Red Flag Cyber research desk — the desk that covers data breaches, scams, and account security for this site and the channel behind it. Every story is researched from the record, labelled for how strong its evidence is, and corrected in public when it falls short.

The desk works to three commitments:

• Primary sources first. A company's own statement, a regulator's filing, or a CISA publication comes before any summary of it — a lead is not published as fact until it has been checked against a primary record.
• Labels that match the evidence. “Confirmed” is used only when primary evidence supports the incident; anything less stays labelled a reported claim, attributed to whoever is making it.
• Corrections logged publicly. When a material fact turns out to be wrong, the article is corrected promptly and the change is recorded on the Corrections page with its date — substantive corrections are never silently edited in.

The full rules live in our Methodology, Sourcing standards, and Corrections policy. The desk is accountable through those pages and the Contact page: send the article title, the statement you believe is wrong, and a supporting primary source, and every specific correction request is reviewed.

Elsewhere

• YouTube: Red Flag Cyber
• TikTok: Red Flag Cyber · @redflagcyber
• Instagram: @redflagcyber
• Official shop: Red Flag Cyber merch