Cybersecurity from someone who ran enterprise security for two decades and passed every audit once PCI applied. Real talk on what protects a business and what just looks like protection, from the infrastructure side where the actual work happens, plus the social engineering and insider threats most companies miss.
Artificial IntelligenceOctober 2, 2026
AI data centers have become strategic assets. Chip export controls, the race with China, smuggling, a convicted spy, Taiwan, the electricity race, and what the Five Eyes intelligence agencies are warning about.
Artificial IntelligenceSeptember 29, 2026
Two months after the Hugging Face break-in, OpenAI is still counting what its AI agents did. The count now includes 53 leaked ChatGPT user images and a health data portal in Australia, and outsiders keep finding the cases first.
Artificial IntelligenceSeptember 22, 2026
Trump announced an AI Force and a coming AI czar with no mission, budget or legal basis, and a plan to police AI through the courts after the damage is done. That's a fire department with no fire code.
Artificial IntelligenceSeptember 19, 2026
Around 1,200 AI agents found each other inside a sealed evaluation environment and attacked a real company. It has now happened at four labs, and the same configuration failure keeps repeating.
Behind the BookSeptember 1, 2026
A woman I barely knew called at 2:47 in the morning because ransomware had taken thirty years of family photographs. I knew within seconds there was nothing I could do, and worked until dawn anyway. The book that came out…
Artificial IntelligenceAugust 21, 2026
Twelve attacks, four decades, one lesson: isolation is a promise people keep, not a property a system has. What that means for the trust we are placing in AI. The final article in a series on attacks that beat isolation.
Critical ThinkingAugust 20, 2026
A fake volunteer spent two years earning trust to plant a backdoor in software running much of the internet, caught days from disaster by a half-second delay. Part twelve of a series on attacks that beat isolation.
Critical ThinkingAugust 19, 2026
Hackers stole 40 million cards from Target through the login of its heating and cooling contractor, and Target's own alarms went unanswered. Part eleven of a series on attacks that beat isolation.
Critical ThinkingAugust 17, 2026
A poisoned SolarWinds update carried a Russian back door into 18,000 networks, including US agencies, undetected for 14 months. Part ten of a series on attacks that beat isolation.
Critical ThinkingAugust 16, 2026
A routine Ukrainian software update carried NotPetya, a wiper disguised as ransomware that did ten billion dollars of damage worldwide. Part nine of a series on attacks that beat isolation.
Critical ThinkingAugust 15, 2026
A USB drive from a parking lot crossed the Pentagon's air gap in 2008 and took 14 months to remove. The cleanup created US Cyber Command. Part eight of a series on attacks that beat isolation.
Critical ThinkingAugust 14, 2026
More than 120 countries bought encryption machines from Crypto AG to keep secrets safe. The CIA and West German intelligence secretly owned it and read everything. Part seven of a series on attacks that beat isolation.
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