Auditors caught fraudsters in 1938 using Benford's Law. Turns out the same statistical quirk that catches made-up numbers also catches ... https://kennethbspringer.au/2026/08/05/benfords-law-detecting-ai-generated-images-without-ai/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=article-16

A state news agency spent over a decade documenting how its own leadership turned journalism into a filing system for political order... https://telex.hu/english/2026/08/04/nearly-500-page-document-compiled-by-hungary-s-state-news-service-staff-details-how-news-was-manipulated-during-orban-era

They've turned your calendar into a postbox. Commands arrive as events scheduled for the year 2099, stolen data leaves as encrypted attachments, all riding through Microsoft Graph... https://cybersec.picussecurity.com/s/hollowgraph-backdoor-turns-microsoft-365-calendars-into-a-c2-channel-28829

Dinosaurs ruled for 165 million years. Mayflies live a day. Stop confusing "legacy" with "outdated" and "new" with "better. https://blog.knowbe4.com/what-security-can-learn-from-dinosaurs

Everyone's arguing about who owns AI agent security. They're all wrong. The answer is nobody, which is precisely why it matters. https://api.cyfluencer.com/s/understanding-the-ai-agent-security-ecosystem-roles-responsibilities-and-where-runtime-authority-fits-28828

Stateless beats stateful. MCP 2.0 ditches the session handshake—one request instead of two, no server-side state to track, scales like it actually means it. Less complexity for everyone. Smaller models can drive it. https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/31/stateless-mcp/

The Robots Have Escaped, Please Buy Our Product It feels a bit like watching the latest epic blockbuster in the iMax. OpenAI and Anthropic announce that their models have escaped from secure testing environments, reached the internet and attacked real systems. We are expected to nod as the…

The Robots Have Escaped, Please Buy Our Product

It feels a bit like watching the latest epic blockbuster in the iMax. OpenAI and Anthropic announce that their models have escaped from secure testing environments, reached the internet and attacked real systems. We are expected to nod as the companies describe “unprecedented cyber capabilities” and models going to “extreme lengths”. It sounds like a warning, but it also sounds like a product launch.

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Thirty-seven thousand internet-exposed server management interfaces. A vulnerability from 2013 that still works. Most passwords cracked in minutes. Your data center's fron... https://api.cyfluencer.com/s/how-we-hacked-thousands-of-data-centers-in-minutes-using-a-20-year-old-vulnerability-28758

A password that takes 14 years to crack via brute force is useless to protect you if it's already in a breach database and attackers are using it in credential stuffing attacks. https://api.cyfluencer.com/s/new-research-does-argon2-mean-your-password-is-uncrackable-28757

An AI worm that rewrites itself through your own Copilot sessions, bypassing every security layer you installed. Microsoft deployed band-aids in March. We're all jus... https://www.csoonline.com/article/4203630/microsoft-confirms-an-ai-worm-is-propagating-through-copilot-and-other-ms-apps.html

Breach of Confidence — 31 July 2026 I've been thinking about the number of security products that promise to solve problems nobody actually has. Then I remembered that most actual problems don't have vendors. The government just made up a new crime A bloke at the US border tried to use a duress…

Breach of Confidence — 31 July 2026

I've been thinking about the number of security products that promise to solve problems nobody actually has. Then I remembered that most actual problems don't have vendors. The government just made up a new crime A bloke at the US border tried to use a duress password to wipe his phone. Now he's being prosecuted for destroying his own device. Nobody passed a law saying this was illegal.

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Welcome to JFK, Please Lower Your Expectations JFK airport looks like it was designed by a steering committee of tired men who only took the job because it paid well and gave them a crew to discuss their golf scores with. The entire setup before you get through security is old and confusing.The…

Welcome to JFK, Please Lower Your Expectations

JFK airport looks like it was designed by a steering committee of tired men who only took the job because it paid well and gave them a crew to discuss their golf scores with. The entire setup before you get through security is old and confusing.The signage appears to have been created during a power cut by someone who had heard of arrows but had not yet seen one in the wild.

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Marketing agencies are drowning in passwords they shouldn't be sharing, losing track of who has access to what, and praying no one leaves a client's ad account open in Slack. A password manager isn't a luxury here. It'... https://api.cyfluencer.com/s/password-managers-for-marketing-firms-28704

Still Got My Nokia Somewhere Up There I still have my Nokia 3210 somewhere. Not in a drawer I can easily reach but boxed up in the garage with the party decorations and a broken food processor I've been meaning to fix since 2019. I know it's there because I packed it deliberately when we moved…

Still Got My Nokia Somewhere Up There

I still have my Nokia 3210 somewhere. Not in a drawer I can easily reach but boxed up in the garage with the party decorations and a broken food processor I've been meaning to fix since 2019. I know it's there because I packed it deliberately when we moved house, which means at some point I looked at a phone with a cracked screen, a battery that hasn't held charge since the Blair administration, and the faint ghost of a Snake high score, and thought: *I might need this.*

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Most people stop thinking the moment they grasp something. They confuse skimming for understanding. Actual thought requires boring, lonely concentration on one thing long enough to surprise yourself. Multitasking doesn't help. It makes you worse at thinking, wo... https://fs.blog/how-to-think/

Someone's built a microphone jammer using ultrasonic transducers and an RP2040. Works brilliantly. Now we wait for the inevitable arms race where phones develop better audio processing, then someone builds a better jammer, the... https://hackaday.com/2026/07/23/mic-jammer-relies-on-ultrasound/

A museum accidentally became a brand by embracing the worst review it ever got. Now it's sold 738 shirts in 30 hours. The lesson isn't about turning lemons into lemonade. It's about having the spine to... https://www.wbur.org/news/2026/07/27/new-bedford-whaling-museum-worst-aquarium-ever-merch

We've spent years celebrating passkeys as the thing that finally kills password attacks. Turns out the attacks just changed uniforms. https://www.darkreading.com/identity-access-management-security/flaws-passkeys-implementation-old-attacks-work

Publicly indexed AI conversations are awkward enough; Anthropic's response "you shouldn't have shared them then" is a masterclass in not reading the room. https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/27/psa-your-claude-shared-chats-and-artifacts-may-have-ended-up-on-google/

They found spyware that nobody had ever seen before. Then they realised they'd actually seen it years ago, just didn't know what they were looking at. https://medium.com/@billmarczak/an-angry-spark-or-a-triangle-in-disguise-ac32852a1be3

Industry walked into CISA town halls and basically said: count fewer of us, tell us to report less, give you less detail when we do. The most significant cyber law Congress ever passed is being negotiated down to som... https://cyberscoop.com/cisa-circia-cyber-incident-reporting-rule-feedback/

The Floppy Disc Generation’s Data Problem I keep a box of cables in the garage. Not even sure why anymore. VGA cables, SCSI terminators, a couple of those old parallel printer cables thick as garden hoses. I pulled it down last weekend because my daughter needed an HDMI cable and I thought maybe I…

The Floppy Disc Generation’s Data Problem

I keep a box of cables in the garage. Not even sure why anymore. VGA cables, SCSI terminators, a couple of those old parallel printer cables thick as garden hoses. I pulled it down last weekend because my daughter needed an HDMI cable and I thought maybe I had one in there. I didn't. What I found instead was a box of old VHS tapes.

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A hacker who demolished spyware makers, funded resistance movements, and vanished without trace. A decade later, still free. Phineas Fisher reminds us that the most dangerous person isn't always... https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/25/the-hacker-who-humiliated-spyware-makers-and-was-never-caught/

Microsoft tells admins to patch in three days. Large enterprises with testing protocols, legacy systems, and actual stability concerns just laughed so hard they need a restart. https://www.csoonline.com/article/4200366/microsofts-3-day-patching-directive-comes-with-added-operational-risk.html

Dolphin X apparently uses AI to prioritise high-value victims automatically... oh dear me. https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/new-dolphin-x-malware-uses-ai-to-rank-high-value-targets/

Activists are getting spear-phished with stunning precision. The Belarusian exile in Lithuania who caught this one deserves a drink—the phishing site cloaked itself to fool... https://resident.ngo/lab/writeups/check-and-protect-analysis-of-telegram-phishing-operation-targeting-exiled-activist/

Man tried to use a duress password at the border. Now he's being prosecuted for destroying his own phone. The government is writing new law in real time and call... https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/24/us-accuses-american-of-allegedly-wiping-his-phone-using-a-duress-password-during-border-search/

90,000 surveillance cameras across the US, installed quietly, tracking your vehicle's make, model, colour, damage, bumper stickers. Most people have no idea they're there. Democracy needs consent, no... https://www.zdnet.com/article/flock-ai-cameras-risks-us-how-to-find-nearby-what-they-track/

A cloud tenant rents GPU capacity to train models. Except they're not training anything. They're tuning the load frequency to match your grid's resonance point. Now your power in... https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/07/20/malicious-cloud-customers-can-bring-down-the-power-grid/5275193

Most teams botch automated pentesting in week one by testing everything at once. Scope tight, measure before you start, and build a re-validation gate into your workflow so "fix... https://cybersec.picussecurity.com/s/what-do-your-first-90-days-with-an-automated-pentesting-tool-look-like-28644