Fake ‘Inflation Refund’ Texts Target New Yorkers in New Scam
Another zero-day patched just in time for no one to notice. Pour yourself a glass of bourbon and brace for the latest in the theater of security theater that never seems to run out of stagehands. The headline of the day reads like a bad punchline, but the scam is real, and the victims keep […]
SonicWall VPN Compromise – a reminder that vendors still can’t fix basic security
Pour yourself a drink, this breach is dumber than last week’s and somehow still finding new excuses to exist. The latest top story is the SonicWall SSL VPN compromise that Huntress warns could let threat actors access multiple customer environments through compromised credentials rather than any heroic brute force. If you have been counting the […]
DDoS Botnet Aisuru Blankets US ISPs in Record DDoS
Pour yourself a glass of bourbon and strap in, because this is the kind of chaos that makes your quarterly risk assessment look like a fairy tale told to toddlers. You’ve ignored every patch note, every security banner, every vendor promise, and somehow this is where we end up: a record breaking DDoS powered by […]
GitHub Copilot Chat Flaw Exposed Private Repositories – A Cautionary Toast to Vendors and CISOs
Pour yourself a drink, this breach is dumber than last week’s vendor press release. The GitHub Copilot Chat flaw allowed hidden comments to leak control signals and sensitive information from private repositories. It wasn’t a mystery breach carried in by a rogue agent; it was a design flaw wearing a glossy sticker and a PR […]
Ransomware at Asahi: A Brewed Lesson in Security Theater
Pour yourself a glass of aged whiskey, because this breach is the kind of wakeup call that should have happened years ago – yet here we are, pretending a few shiny dashboards and a press release can replace fundamental security. Asahi got hit, data got exfiltrated, and the security team gets to answer for years […]
ShinyHunters Wage Broad Corporate Extortion Spree — a Bourbon-tinged takedown
Pour yourself a glass, this breach is dumber than last week’s every-vendor-PR-sprint. The ShinyHunters have staged another “extortion spree” and somehow C-suite bravery is measured in press releases, not in security controls. This isn’t a new vulnerability, it’s the same old playbook dressed up with a fancy website and a data dump that screams “we […]
Top Story: Zeroday Cloud Hacking Contest Offers $4.5 Million in Bounties
What this actually is and why you should care Pour yourself a dram of something smoky, because the latest security circus has an equally loud sponsor and prize money to match. Zeroday Cloud, a hacking contest focused on open-source cloud and AI tools, is dangling a total prize pool of 4.5 million dollars in bug […]
Oracle patches EBS zero-day exploited in Clop data theft attacks
Overview Pour yourself a dram of whiskey and brace for the same old dance floor where ERP patches are treated like victory laps instead of life jackets. Oracle finally releases a fix for the E-Business Suite zero-day tracked as CVE-2025-61882, the kind of vulnerability that attackers were already using to steal data while your change […]
Five hundred percent and rising: the login portal reconnaissance you probably ignored again
Pour yourself a glass of whiskey, because the latest security postmortem from the threat intel folks reads like the same old script: a near 500% spike in scans against Palo Alto Networks login portals on Oct 3, 2025. If you are surprised, congratulations — you must have missed the last ten warnings while re-reading last […]
The Latest Tech Marketing Stunt: Opera Sells You AI Tabs for $19.90 a Month
Pour yourself a glass of whiskey, because Opera just unveiled its new AI browser and it comes with a price tag that would make a CFO do a spit-take. $19.90 per month for a browser that supposedly lets AI run your tabs and browsing like a tiny, caffeinated puppeteer. No, this isn’t a security patch […]
