Critical ThinkingAugust 13, 2026
Going low-tech didn't save Hezbollah, because the devices were the attack. Why supply chain trust is a vulnerability for anyone who buys anything. Part six of a series on attacks that beat isolation.
Critical ThinkingAugust 12, 2026
Hezbollah traded trackable phones for simple pagers to stay safe, and the pagers were the weapon. Part five of a series on attacks that beat isolation.
Critical ThinkingAugust 11, 2026
Once Stuxnet escaped, the idea was free. The decade that followed brought Shamoon, the Ukraine grid attacks, and Triton. Part four of a series on attacks that beat isolation.
Critical ThinkingAugust 9, 2026
Natanz was air-gapped, and Stuxnet crossed it anyway, on USB drives, stolen certificates, and four unknown flaws. Part three of a series on attacks that beat isolation.
Critical ThinkingAugust 8, 2026
Stuxnet was the first attack that reached out of a screen and broke real machines, destroying a thousand centrifuges at an air-gapped nuclear plant. Part two of a series on attacks that beat isolation.
Critical ThinkingAugust 7, 2026
In one night in 1988, a self-copying program jammed a tenth of the internet and ended the assumption that the network could be trusted. The first article in a series on attacks that beat isolation.
CybersecurityJuly 13, 2026
Every article in this series was secretly about security. The capstone: why the green checkmark is a component and not a defense, what a working posture looks like in practice, and the five questions no product can answer.
CybersecurityJuly 13, 2026
The attack that reached my site did not come at it. It came through it, riding a trusted update channel. Why supply chain attacks scale, why they extend to hardware, and how to manage a chain you cannot eliminate.
CybersecurityJuly 13, 2026
A plugin folder appeared on my site that I never installed. It was caught before it did damage, and the investigation changed how I run every part of my WordPress stack.
CybersecurityJuly 8, 2026
Cloud security in 2026 runs on Zero Trust. A book that still teaches castle-and-moat thinking is teaching a model the field abandoned.
CybersecurityJuly 6, 2026
There is a great deal of security writing and almost none of it is addressed to the people losing money.
CybersecurityJuly 4, 2026
Our PCI auditor looked at a legacy database connection we could not afford to rebuild and said: wrap it in a VPN. That sentence introduced us to mitigating controls, turned a six-figure project into a configuration change, and taught me…
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