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 […]
Forbes AI 50 Secrets on GitHub: A Security Story Worth a Whisky Toast
Pour yourself a drink, this breach is dumber than last week’s. Here is the one story we should be talking about without pretending the rest of the newsletter matters. Wiz reportedly found secrets belonging to Forbes AI 50 companies sitting in GitHub repos and training data, with the usual plausible deniability baked in. The kind […]
Drilling Down on Uncle Sam’s TP-Link Ban: Security Theatre for the Bar Stool Set
Pour yourself a drink, this breach is dumber than last week’s hype cycle. The TP-Link ban story is not a sudden revelation in how the internet works or why devices get pwned in the wild. It is the security industry performing on a stage built by policy wonks, pundits, and people who confuse a press […]
