I have spent the past few days using OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra across the kind of work I normally do: research, code, troubleshooting, and security analysis. What stands out is not one clever answer, but how long Astra can stay with a problem.It can inspect the work in front of it, use tools, test an idea, notice that...

The past two weeks got away from me. We found a new house, moved almost immediately, and have been trying to get settled ever since, so I decided to combine Weeks 35 and 36 into one post.The vibeWhiplashed, exhausted, and relieved.Everything happened much faster than I expected, and moving is never fun, but we are...

OverviewThis week put exposed edge systems, trusted login paths, and internet-facing business software back at the front of the queue. SonicWall and Sangoma confirmed exploitation against remote-access and phone-system products, Google patched another Chrome zero-day, and CISA added seven flaws spanning appliances,...

I spent most of this weekend moving, so Friday’s edition slipped past me. I am publishing it late rather than pretending the week was quiet.OverviewPaperCut and NetScaler both moved into active-exploitation territory, Next.js shipped fixes for two critical remote-code-execution flaws, and another trusted npm...

It has been a while since I updated this page, and quite a bit has happened since the last one. I am still writing about security and working in the MSP world. Outside of that, I have spent a lot of time on self-hosting, physical media, and building tools that solve problems I keep running into myself.Here is where...

Part 4 of the Light Offensive to Think Defensively track in my CybersecKyle Security How-To Series closes the series by turning one verified lab observation into work an owner can understand, schedule, fix, and retest.A scanner screenshot is not a finding, and a finding is not automatically the organization’s risk...

On July 31, N-able detected a threat actor exploiting a previously unknown vulnerability in N-central. By August 1, the company had published guidance. Hotfix 1 arrived on August 2. Continued monitoring found a related attack path, so Hotfix 2 followed on August 6. That is already a difficult timeline for any IT or...

The vibeDrained, proud, and ready for a cold front.I did not feel like myself for much of the week, but I still had a few things I was genuinely happy about. I am hoping the sick feeling passes soon and Texas remembers that summer does eventually have to end.Highlights🛠️ I released ReelArrange 0.3.0 and RipFoundry...

Part 3 of the Light Offensive to Think Defensively track in my CybersecKyle Security How-To Series examines what a lab target reveals before authentication and how its identity controls respond to a small, authorized set of failed sign-ins.This exercise stays inside the isolated lab from Part 1. The target, users,...

This is a little outside the kind of thing I normally write about here, but I have been following the discussion around MacStories returning to Twitter/X over the last couple of days, and I kept finding myself thinking about it.Federico Viticci is someone I have followed for years through MacStories. Obviously there...

OverviewThis week, the most important stories were not subtle. CISA moved two Windows bugs and an MLflow flaw up the priority list because attackers are already using them. Zimbra admins also got an active-exploitation warning, while Citrix put another pair of internet-facing NetScaler issues into emergency-patch...

Part 2 of the Light Offensive to Think Defensively track in my CybersecKyle Security How-To Series uses a controlled message to test email authentication, filtering, reporting, and response without collecting a real credential or turning coworkers into targets.A click rate by itself says very little. A recipient may...