FBI Warns of UNC6040 and UNC6395 Targeting Salesforce Platforms in Data Theft Attacks
Pour yourself a glass of whiskey, because the security alarm has sounded again and your risk posture still looks like a punchline. The FBI’s flash alert about UNC6040 and UNC6395 reads like a card from the vendor sales deck — convincing enough to scare a junior analyst, not enough to stop the next breach. Salesforce […]
F5 to Acquire CalypsoAI for $180 Million: A Dram of Reality in the AI Security Fanfare
Pour yourself a whiskey, because the press release parade is back on stage and this time it comes with a shiny $180 million price tag. F5 Networks wants you to believe that acquiring CalypsoAI is the key to adaptive AI inference security, seamlessly woven into its Application Delivery and Security Platform. Spoiler: it’s mostly marketing […]
Stark Lessons From a Very EU Sanctions Show – The Bulletproof Host That Refuses to Break Character
Pour yourself a smoky glass of whiskey and brace for yet another chapter in the long, tired saga of security theater pretending to be policy. The latest headline from Krebs on Security details Stark Industries Evades EU Sanctions, a story that proves the only thing more flexible than EU rules is a bulletproof hosting outfit […]
Geordie Emerges From Stealth With $6.5M for AI Agent Security Platform
Pour yourself a dram of something strong and get ready for the latest installment of security theater funded by someone who clearly believes the phrase “deep visibility into AI agents” deserves a $6.5M round. Geordie’s stealthy ascent promises a platform that can tell you what your AI agents are doing, which is almost as important […]
Mitsubishi Electric Bets Big on Nozomi Networks, and the Rest of Us Get to Pay in Convenience Fees
Pour yourself a dram of whiskey and watch the dollars flow into the very kind of deal that makes board attendees nod approvingly while the rest of us count the cost in downtimes and questionable integration plans. Mitsubishi Electric is buying Nozomi Networks for nearly a billion, and suddenly we are supposed to believe this […]
18 Popular Code Packages Hacked, Rigged to Steal Crypto
Pour yourself a dram of whiskey and pretend this is surprising. We’ve got 18 popular JavaScript packages that are downloaded billions of times a week, briefly hijacked by a phishing hit, and bent toward crypto theft. The attacker didn’t invent a new worm; they just exploited a broken trust model and a maintainer’s compromised account. […]
iCloud Calendar Phish on Apple’s Servers: The Reminder That Email Still Works (For Hackers)
Opening the bottle and the breach Pour yourself a glass of whiskey because this is exactly the kind of low effort, high impact move that keeps happening while security teams chase the next shiny thing. The iCloud Calendar invites are being abused to deliver callback phishing emails directly from Apple’s servers, making them look legitimate […]
GOP Cries Censorship Over Spam Filters That Work
One top story, a lot of noise, and a bartender with an opinion Pour yourself a glass of something smoky, because we are about to dissect the headline circus again. The FTC chair fired off a letter to Google’s CEO demanding to know why Gmail was blocking messages from Republican senders while allegedly not blocking […]
Academics Build AI-Powered Android Vulnerability Tool — And We All Pretend This Solves Patch Fatigue
Pour yourself a dram of bourbon while you read this hot take, because the latest paper from the ivory tower promises to replace human triage with an AI that mimics our tired, caffeine-fueled reasoning. The story, as reported, is that academics built a framework called A2 that supposedly mimics human analysis to identify and validate […]
AI Supply Chain Drama: Model Namespace Reuse Exposes Why Vendors Still Can’t Lock the Back Door
Pour yourself a glass of bourbon and settle in, reader. Another AI supply chain scare shows up wearing a bow tie and a marketing deck, and yes, it still has more buzzwords than actual security. The story we’re chewing on today is titled AI Supply Chain Attack Method Demonstrated Against Google, Microsoft Products, because apparently […]
