Almost every company that loses customer data passed its last audit clean. These articles cover how breaches actually happen, why compliant companies still get hit, and the unglamorous work that prevents it. Written from the infrastructure side of real security.
AI WritingTwo 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.
CybersecurityHackers 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.
CybersecurityA 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.
CybersecurityA 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.
CybersecurityMore 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.
AEOThirty years of IT taught everyone that a system behaves the same way twice. Noah Landow, who founded Macktez in 1996, on AEO, live queries, and the adjustment nobody prepared for.
Cloud ComputingCloud security in 2026 runs on Zero Trust. A book that still teaches castle-and-moat thinking is teaching a model the field abandoned.
CybersecurityI have to take gamified security tests to consult for companies, and I have rewritten the book on phishing, literally: KnowBe4's Cyberheist, twice, credited alongside Roger A. Grimes. The gap between those two kinds of training is the gap between…
AuditsPassing an audit and being secure are not the same thing; companies that treat compliance as a checklist get breached at the same rate as those that ignore it. Real protection comes from documentation that reflects how the business actually…
BackupsCoffee in hand, you open an email demanding $500 in Bitcoin to unlock your photos, tax records, and three-year novel, and yesterday's urgent delivery notice was the invitation. It happens thousands of times a day, and the habits that stop…
AIGPT-5's August 2025 launch brought a user revolt, security failures, and 5.4x token bloat, and chasing benchmark scores is chasing your own tail while smarter competitors quietly pull ahead. The point was never the newest model. It is choosing tools…
BackupsAttackers rarely come through the firewall; if they do, you were sloppy, because the firewall is the easy part. The real vectors are social engineering and the insider, and the insider is the most common and most overlooked. Two decades…
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