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 […]
Google Sues to Disrupt Chinese SMS Phishing Triad – A Bitter Dram for a Bitter Newsletter
What happened Google has taken to the courts to sic civil complaints on dozens of unnamed individuals behind a China-based SMS phishing service. The scam allegedly impersonates hundreds of trusted brands, blasts out text message lure after lure, and converts phished card data into mobile wallets from Apple and Google. In other words, a very […]
Sweet Security’s 75 Million Bet: Cloud, AI, and the Unending Vendor Mirage
Pour yourself a dram of bourbon and settle in, because this is the kind of news that reminds you why your day job feels like sprinting through a maze while someone keeps moving the walls. Sweet Security’s latest funding round—75 million dollars to “accelerate global expansion and product innovation”—is the kind of headline that makes […]
Tenzai’s AI-Powered Pentesting Platform: A $75 Million Toast to the Next Vendor Gimmick
Overview wrapped in a whiskey-fueled hyperbole Pour yourself a dram of whiskey, because the latest from the vendor hype machine reads like a marketing whitepaper dressed in velvet AI robes. Tel Aviv, Israel based Tenzai has built an AI-driven platform that claims to continuously identify and address vulnerabilities through pentesting magic. They’ve just slapped a […]
