The vibeMotivated.I have that excited, slightly impatient feeling that comes when I want to build things again. Ideas are starting to feel more real, and I keep wanting to see how far I can take them. There is a good kind of momentum right now, and I want to make the most of it.Highlights💻 I finally upgraded my...

OverviewThis one is landing Sunday instead of Friday. Friday got away from me, but the security news did not slow down while I caught up. The clearest pattern was pressure on the systems that concentrate trust: identity servers, SharePoint, security appliances, file-sharing controllers, developer pipelines,...

Most of the tech support I have done for family, friends, and everyday users starts before I touch the device.Someone hands over a phone with a strange warning, a laptop that will not sign in, or an email they are afraid to open. They ask, “Can you fix this?” What they often mean is, “Did I ruin something?” or “Can...

I am back with Season 3, Part 4 of the Power User and Small Team track in my CybersecKyle Security How-To Series. This time we are talking about light self-hosting behind a reverse proxy: useful, fun, and much safer when exposure is intentional.Self-hosting is one of those hobbies that starts innocently.You run a...

The vibeLow battery week.Not bad. Not memorable. Just warm, slow, and a little foggy. I was not really feeling like myself, and most of the week had that “I am here, but not fully here” feeling.Highlights🌡️ The office was way too hot, and I was already feeling run down, so I took a couple of days off toward the end...

I am back with Season 3, Part 3 of the Power User and Small Team track in my CybersecKyle Security How-To Series. This time we are cleaning up secrets for side projects: API keys, tokens, credentials, environment files, and the bad habit of letting private things drift into public places.Side projects collect...

It has been a bit since I updated this page, and quite a lot has changed since January. Some of it has been exciting, some of it has been hard, and most of it has happened while I was just trying to keep the normal parts of life moving.Here is the honest version of what I am focused on right now.WorkI am still deep...

I added a new /ai page to explain how I do and do not use AI on this site.

Waze is one of those apps that we use without thinking twice about the implications.You open it because traffic is bad, the route looks smarter than whatever your car suggests, and you would rather know about the crash before you are sitting behind it. That kind of usefulness lowers our guard. The app helps right...

OverviewThis week had a very familiar pattern: attackers kept aiming at the places where normal business systems concentrate trust. File-sharing controllers, identity-aware edge appliances, developer platforms, AI workflow tools, CMS plugins, endpoint security engines, bootloaders, and kernels all showed up because...

I am back with Season 3, Part 2 of the Power User and Small Team track in my CybersecKyle Security How-To Series. This time we are making domain email harder to spoof with SPF, DKIM, and DMARC, without turning DNS into a self-inflicted outage.Email is still one of the messiest trust systems we use every day.Your...

I am back with Season 3, Part 1 of the Power User and Small Team track in my CybersecKyle Security How-To Series. This time we are treating accounts like assets: inventory them, remove stale access, and stop handing out admin rights like candy.Small environments have a funny way of collecting access.A side project...