I broke down and decided to buy a pumpkin pie frappe. I know, total white girl mode. LOL. It was actually not that bad. Of course I got it from my local coffee shop and not that corporate star place. I’m not completely sure of them though compared to other flavors but overall they aren’t bad.

A vulnerability alert can tell a technician that a product has a serious flaw and still leave the most immediate question unanswered: which of our systems are affected?If the product name is ambiguous or the affected versions are unclear, someone has to reconcile the record with a vendor advisory, an inventory, and...

Consider a client who wants multi-factor authentication turned off because the extra prompts are getting in the way of work. The complaint deserves attention. The requested fix deserves scrutiny.Something may be wrong with the setup. A session policy may be too aggressive, a device may not be registered correctly,...

An AI agent can use a valid credential, call an approved tool, and still make a change the business never intended. That is the problem I kept coming back to while reading Maria Korolov’s CSO analysis of Okta’s push into AI agent security.The identity argument interests me because agents need access to be useful. An...

A researcher switched off a BYD Shark 6’s headlights while a journalist drove it at night. The same investigation demonstrated remote location tracking and access to the cabin microphone. Those are substantial capabilities to lose control of in something you use to get your family home.The demonstration, covered by...

The vibeA little worn out, but glad to be getting settled.I am ready for the part where living in the new house means enjoying it without constantly thinking about what still needs to come out of a box. We are getting there, slowly but surely. Having some of the familiar comforts back helps, even if my stomach...

OverviewThe common thread this week is control-plane risk. Cisco confirmed active attacks against email-security and network-access appliances, CISA flagged exploitation of ScreenConnect and GitLab, ransomware crews moved onto a vCenter flaw, and attackers used Artifactory and Conductor weaknesses to turn trusted...

The alert looked ordinary for about five seconds.An endpoint protection product had detected and quarantined an executable named WindowsUpdate.exe. The name was suspicious but not especially creative. The path was what changed the investigation:C:\Users\<user>\Documents\ScreenConnect\Temp\WindowsUpdate.exeThis...

An analyst finds a serious problem. They can explain what happened, how it happened, and why the activity is technically dangerous.Then someone asks whether the affected system can be shut down.Does it support a revenue-generating service? Who owns it? Which customers will lose access? Does the incident need to...

The vibeProud, relieved, and already thinking about what comes next.After the move, the internet mess, and the general chaos of the past couple of weeks, this week gave me a pretty big personal milestone: I released my first app.That still feels a little strange to write. I have built plenty of tools and side...

OverviewThis week did not leave much room for leisurely patch testing. Attackers are already chaining MikroTik RouterOS flaws to take over internet-exposed routers, Microsoft fixed two Windows privilege-escalation bugs under active exploitation, Google shipped another Chrome zero-day update, and Cisco confirmed that...

N-able has released four N-central hotfixes in five weeks.The latest, N-central 2026.3 Hotfix 4, fixes CVE-2026-86218: a pre-authentication remote code execution vulnerability rated 10.0 under CVSS 4.0. N-able says every version before build 2026.3.1.14 is affected. CISA added the flaw to its Known Exploited...