Our youngest is spending the night at her friends tonight so my wife and I will have the house to ourselves. I’m looking forward to the quiet time.

OverviewThis week had a blunt theme: the highest-value systems are still the ones attackers want first. Domain controllers, VPN gateways, SD-WAN managers, file-transfer servers, mobile devices, developer tools, and even fuel tank monitoring systems all showed up in the urgent pile. The best signal is not that every...

Most shadow technology starts with somebody trying to get their job done.That is the part I think security teams forget when this conversation gets too policy-heavy. A user finds a faster way to summarize meeting notes. A developer tries a coding assistant that helps with boilerplate. A sales team uses an AI writing...

I still believe in patching. Let me get that out of the way first.Patching is one of the most basic security controls we have, and it is basic for a reason. If a vendor ships a fix for a vulnerability that attackers are using in the wild, applying that fix is usually the cleanest way to close the door. No amount of...

The vibeA shorter and slightly slower week. The Memorial Day weekend was a nice reset, summer break meant calmer mornings, and I still found time to write a few articles. Nothing too dramatic, which is not a bad thing at all.Highlights🌞 This week was a short week at work with Monday being the Memorial Day holiday....

I’m back with Season 2, Part 1 of the Home Network and Devices track in my CybersecKyle Security How-To Series. This time we’re making the router boring, predictable, and harder to abuse: admin lock down, sane Wi-Fi settings, guest Wi-Fi, and a quick validation that proves risky devices are staying in their...

OverviewThis week had a very practical theme: the boring systems that run websites, endpoints, identity, and developer workflows are still the easiest places for attackers to turn one weak spot into a larger incident. The loudest stories were not just new bugs. They were bugs and campaigns that gave attackers...

I like passkeys. Let me get that out of the way first.Passkeys are one of the better authentication improvements we have seen in years. They reduce password reuse, make phishing harder, and remove one of the ugliest parts of account security: the shared secret. A password is something you know, something you can...

The vibeThis week had a little bit of everything: proud dad moments, focused work, website tinkering, Formula 1, and the return of my weekly cybersecurity roundup. It felt busy, but in the good kind of way where several things actually moved forward.Highlights🎾 My youngest had her tennis tryouts for next year. It...

I recently had one of those RMM alerts that looks simple at first, but immediately turns into a small rabbit hole. The alert was for a potential disk failure, and the important part of the event log message looked like this: The driver detected a controller error on \Device\Harddisk3\DR3. That sounds helpful until...

Overview This week had a very clear pattern: attackers and researchers kept circling the tools that sit closest to trust. Endpoint protection, CMS platforms, VPNs, cloud identities, developer tooling, and admin planes all showed up in the signal pile. The practical lesson is not glamorous, but it is the work: know...

I have always liked that RSS is boring in the best possible way. It does not need a recommendation engine. It does not need a timeline ranking model. It does not care whether a platform wants to show someone my post today. A feed is just a quiet agreement between a site and a reader: when I publish something new,...