Italy Fines Apple $116 Million Over Privacy Feature – Apple Announces Appeal
Pour yourself a bourbon, because this is the regulatory ping-pong that makes you wonder if privacy is a feature or a liability. If you’re hoping for a tidy security TL;DR, keep hoping. This is a real world reminder that privacy rhetoric and antitrust risk ride in the same chauffeured car, and the bill always lands […]
ATM Heists, Ploutus and Pseudo Security – A Drunk CISO’s Take
Pour yourself a dram of whatever you keep in the bottom shelf – bourbon, rum, scotch – and pretend the enterprise security buffet actually matters. Today we fix our gaze on one story that would be funnier if it weren’t so predictable: the Department of Justice charging 54 individuals in the Ploutus ATM malware case. […]
ISC Stormcast For Monday, December 22, 2025 – A Digest You Probably Didn’t Patch For
Pour yourself a dram of bourbon and pretend this is your bright shiny patch plan for the week. The top story here is the ISC Stormcast For Monday, December 22nd, 2025. It’s not a vulnerability advisory, not a zero day, not even a stalking horse for a new exploit. It is a digest, a calendar […]
RansomHouse Upgrades Encryption With Multi-Layered Data Processing – And We All Roll Our Eyes
Pour yourself a glass of whiskey and pretend this is the wake up call you pretend to give the board every Friday. The latest from the RansomHouse crowd is that they upgraded their encryptor from a single phase to multi-layered data processing. Translation: they added more moving parts so you can pretend it is more […]
Multibillion-Dollar AI and Cloud Security Deal: A Bourbon-Soaked Take
Here we go again. Two massive vendors band together for a multibillion-dollar love letter to AI and cloud security, because nothing screams “our customers’ security is finally in good hands” like another press release cooked up on a conference-room napkin between sips of whatever aged spirit is keeping the lights on. Palo Alto Networks and […]
CISA Warns of Exploited Flaw in Asus Update Tool – The Supply Chain Never Takes a Holiday
Another zero-day patched just in time for no one to notice. Let’s talk about the latest carnival of vendor confidence, where the update tool you trusted to push critical fixes is in fact the backdoor you never wanted to admit existed. The U.S. CISA has added Asus Live Update to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities list, […]
Five Cybersecurity Predictions for 2026: Identity, AI, and the Collapse of Perimeter Thinking
The perimeter is gone. Credentials are no longer sufficient. And security cannot rely on static controls in a dynamic threat environment. If you’ve managed to sleep through the last decade of buzzwords, wake up and pour a dram of something dark while we talk about what this forecast actually means in the real world—the world […]
Most Parked Domains Now Serving Malicious Content
Overview Pour yourself a glass of whiskey because direct navigation to parked domains has become a trust exercise with a sticky note that says “click me anyway.” A new study finds that the vast majority of parked domains – expired, dormant, or misspelled versions of popular sites – are now configured to redirect visitors to […]
Apple Patches Two Zero-Days Tied to Mysterious Exploited Chrome Flaw
Top Story Pour yourself a glass of whiskey – the patch theater is back. Apple has released updates for macOS and iOS to patch two WebKit zero-days tied to a “mysterious exploited Chrome flaw.” Translation: two security holes existed, Apple wrote some code, and now your devices might be marginally safer for a few days […]
PayPal Subscriptions Abuse Proves Vendor Convenience Is A Backdoor
Pour yourself a whiskey and listen up, because the latest security theater is not a zero-day exploit but a reminder that vendor convenience comes with a back door labeled user experience. PayPal’s Subscriptions feature, apparently, is ripe for abuse when attackers can slip fake purchase emails into the legitimate communication pipeline. Yes, a legitimate feature […]
