cybersecurity

Infrastructure

Jun 19, 2026

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3 min read

The Breach With Nothing To Patch

Seventy-five thousand Fortinet firewalls leaked working corporate logins, and the vendor's defense is the most revealing part of the story: if there is no software bug, there is nothing anyone is obligated to fix.

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Identity

Jun 4, 2026

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3 min read

The Vendor Wrote the Category and the Cure

The story isn't that enterprises can't see half their identity activity. It's that the company selling the cure also defined the disease, named the category, and supplied the number.

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Jun 2, 2026

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3 min read

Meta Automated the Help Desk Into a Backdoor

Meta didn't get hacked by a clever exploit. It built a support agent whose whole job is to act on request, then handed it the power to change who owns your account.

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Cyber Security

May 13, 2026

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2 min read

The FCC Blinked

The FCC's retreat is the first sign that regulators have lost the plot on AI infrastructure

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weekly recap

May 11, 2026

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5 min read

THE WEEKLY GIST: Week of May 5–10, 2026

Trust is the load-bearing wall of the modern tech stack and this week, it cracked in nearly every room simultaneously. An AI coding tool became a vector for remote code execution because users trusted a folder prompt. A student data empire collapsed because schools trusted a single vendor. A crypto fraud network thrived because victims trusted a stranger online. And a courtroom in San Francisco spent its second week relitigating whether OpenAI's founders trusted each other's intentions at all.

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ransomware

May 8, 2026

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2 min read

The real threat behind the ransomware

When convenience becomes critical infrastructure

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