Vercel breach proves vendor risk never goes away – pour another dram
One breach, many lessons Pour yourself a dram, because the latest cloud incident from a familiar platform is not just a bug report. It is a reminder that vendor risk is real and the attack surface grows with every abstraction. Vercel confirms a breach as hackers claim to be selling stolen data, which sounds like […]
Protobuf Poison: The RCE That Proves JavaScript Stacks Are a House of Cards
Another zero-day patched just in time for no one to notice. The latest firefight is not about fancy MFA, it’s about the quiet corners of your code where a library—protobuf.js in this case—sits and smiles at you with a PoC in public. Researchers published proof-of-concept exploit code for a critical remote code execution flaw in […]
The White House Meets Anthropic: Security Theater in an AI Conference Room
Pour yourself a drink, this AI policy chatter is about as dangerous as a spreadsheet with a broken macro – all promise and no punch. The White House reportedly plans to talk to Anthropic about the company’s latest AI tech and software security. In other words, a high level meeting where words like governance, risk, […]
OpenAI widens access to cybersecurity model after Anthropic’s Mythos Reveal
Top story, or just more vendor theater? Pour yourself a glass of bourbon and try to pretend this is the moment InfoSec stops handing its keys to glossy marketing decks. OpenAI has widened access to a cybersecurity-focused model, GPT-5.4-Cyber, pitched as a defender-friendly tool that lowers the barrier for legitimate cybersecurity work. Because nothing says […]
Capsule Security Emerges From Stealth With $7 Million in Funding — a Dram for the AI Security Theater
Pour yourself a dram of whiskey and brace for the latest incarnation of security theater dressed up as product news. Capsule Security, the Israeli startup promising to secure AI agents at runtime, has announced $7 million in funding. The stated goal is simple enough: monitor AI agents as they run, flag unsafe actions, and intervene […]
Patch Tuesday, April 2026: 167 Flaws and a Very Tired CISO
Pour yourself a drink, this Patch Tuesday is dumber than last quarter’s vendor briefing and somehow more exhausting than a week of phishing simulations that never end. Microsoft drops updates for 167 vulnerabilities across Windows and related software, including a SharePoint zero-day and a dented Windows Defender, while Chrome and Acrobat chips in with their […]
OpenAI Axios Supply Chain Hack: The Code Signing Circus Returns
Pour yourself a glass of whiskey, because this is the kind of security story that makes you question whether the bar is the only thing in your life that hasn’t been silently compromised. OpenAI’s latest hiccup allegedly centers on a macOS code signing certificate that may have been compromised, tied to an Axios supply chain […]
Adobe Reader Zero-Day Drama: Months Exposed, One Patch Later
Pour yourself a dram of bourbon, because this top story reads like a case study in how not to run a patch program. CVE-2026-34621 in Adobe Reader wandered the wild for months, delivering arbitrary code execution to anyone careless enough to open a PDF. Then, as if the public relations department hadn’t already invented enough […]
The Webloc Wake-Up Call: 500 Million Devices Tracked by Ad Data
Pour yourself a bourbon and brace for the kind of story that makes vendor marketing sound like public service. This week the security world gets a reminder that not all surveillance is a breach you can patch; some of it lives in the ad tech stack you probably approved with a shrug and a quarterly […]
Microsoft Finds Vulnerability Exposing Millions of Android Crypto Wallet Users
Pour yourself a glass of whiskey and brace for the predictable plot twist: a vulnerability in a third party SDK that touches millions of crypto wallets and was reported to the vendor a year ago. The headline from SecurityWeek is blunt for a reason—this isn’t a heroic patch story, it’s a cautionary tale about software […]
