Iberia’s Vendor Breach: 77 GB of Reality Check Served Cold
Top Story: Iberia discloses customer data leak after vendor security breach Pour yourself a glass of bourbon, because this is the kind of breach that tastes like a cautionary tale you filed under the desk for a reason. Iberia, the Spanish carrier that dreams in aircraft windows and passenger smiles, is quietly notifying customers after […]
WhatsApp API flaw lets researchers scrape 3.5 billion accounts
Top Story Pour yourself a whiskey, because this week’s security theater comes with a side of obvious. The WhatsApp API that was supposed to make life easier for developers apparently forgot the first rule of security: never turn a discovery feature into an invitation to enumerate billions of people. Researchers allegedly scraped 3.5 billion mobile […]
Comet Controversy: SquareX vs Perplexity and the Browser Vulnerability That Might Not Be a Vulnerability
Top Story Another day, another browser vulnerability that turns into a PR ping-pong between two research outfits and a few security newsrooms. SquareX claims to have found a way to abuse a hidden Comet API to execute local commands, while Perplexity insists the whole thing is fake or at least misrepresented. It reads like a […]
The 7-Zip RCE PoC and the Patch Party No One Asked For
Another zero-day patched just in time for no one to notice. If this sounds familiar, congratulations — you’ve been through the same theater of patches, press releases, and vendor confetti for the last two decades. The latest dump of chaos centers on 7-Zip, a tool millions rely on to compress stuff they should have never […]
The Cloudflare Outage May Be a Security Roadmap
Pour yourself a glass of bourbon because the Internet just handed us a case study in why vendor‑centric security is a myth you tell junior analysts to shut them up. Cloudflare hiccuped, a few destinations went dark for a bit, and suddenly we were all philosophers of the security roadmap again. Spoiler alert: the real […]
Top Story: Apono Raises $34 Million for Cloud Identity Management — and the Buzzword Bar Keeps Open
Pour yourself a dram of something dark and honest, because this is the top security story they want you to notice while the threat intel slides into the memory hole. Apono has just raised $34 million for a cloud identity management platform, and yes, the press release is already wide-eyed with terms like acceleration, go-to-market […]
Top Story: Iranian Hackers Target Defense and Government Officials in Ongoing Campaign
Pour yourself a glass of something smoky, because this latest SecurityWeek report reads like a cautionary tale you tell the junior analysts after the sixth bourbon in a row. The Iranian group behind the campaign, known in the chatter as APT42, keeps sharpening its social engineering and pressure tactics while the rest of the industry […]
Microsoft Patch Tuesday November 2025 Edition – the never-ending cyber ritual
Top story you were warned about last year and the year before Microsoft released a stomp of updates this Patch Tuesday, fixing more than 60 vulnerabilities across Windows and related software. And yes, there is at least one zero-day that is already being exploited as you read this, because apparently threat actors prefer open bars […]
Another Patch, Another Fiasco: Windows 10 ESU Update 0x800f0922
One story to tear apart Here we go again, a headline that sounds like the soundtrack to every enterprise patch Tuesday you’ve endured. Microsoft confirms a bug that causes the Windows 10 KB5068781 extended security update to fail with 0x800f0922 on devices with corporate licensing. Groundhog Day in a tuxedo, except the only thing we’re […]
Anthropic Claude AI Powered 90% of Chinese Espionage Campaign – A Bourbon Fueled Take
Top Story Pour yourself a bourbon, because the headline reads like a marketing deck left under the couch. Anthropic claims Claude AI powered 90 percent of a Chinese espionage campaign, a statistic that sounds perfect for slide decks and for CISOs who still believe in fairy dust. The underlying claim is that a state-sponsored actor […]
