Vance, Farage and Weidel posted fear-mongering messages about a Spanish migrant crisis that weren't true. They haven't retracted them. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
The Far Right Is Distorting Ceuta
We’ve seen this before.
theatlantic.com
I'm seeing folks draw the wrong conclusion (in good faith or not) from the HAWK attack. HAWK is a scheme that 1. cryptographers were suspicious of and 2. was still in the assessment process. A break is GOOD. It means the process is useful, and it INCREASES confidence in the selected algorithms.
This is serious, vm escape A malicious actor with local administrative privileges inside a guest VM using VMXNET3 can trigger an out-of-bounds write, potentially executing code directly on the ESX host and escaping the virtual machine boundary. cybersecuritynews.com/vmware-flaws...
Critical VMware Flaws Allow Attackers to Bypass Authentication and Gain Access to the System
Broadcom has released a critical security advisory, VMSA-2026-0006, addressing multiple high-impact vulnerabilities across core VMware virtualization platforms, including vCenter, ESX, Workstation, Fu...
cybersecuritynews.com
“Corrupt leaders are not only rulers of weak institutions...They are mirrors. And what they reveal is often more disturbing than their corruption itself.” www.linkedin.com/pulse/why-pe...
Why People Worship Corrupt Leaders
The ancient world understood something we prefer to avoid: corrupt power does not survive only by deceiving people. It survives by giving them strength, revenge, belonging, and permission.
linkedin.com
BREAKING: TACO Trump Just Threw Putin Under The Zelensky Bus open.substack.com/pub/deanblun...
BREAKING: TACO Trump Just Threw Putin Under The Zelensky Bus
Russia is screaming “betrayal.” And Donald Trump — the man who turned on Bibi the second the Iran war got embarrassing — is doing exactly what he always does when the deal he sold you starts to stink.
open.substack.com
There we go. US Gov tightens post-quantum cryptography transition deadlines for high-value systems to 2030 for key exchange and 2031 for signatures. Also, speeding up the CMVP (FIPS 140 validation) processes. That’s how you know the rush is real. The quantum computers are (potentially) coming.
Securing the Nation Against Advanced Cryptographic Attacks
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1. Background
whitehouse.gov
www.aboutamazon.com/stories/aws-...
The radical network redesign that led AWS to forge a more resilient cloud
How a Slack shout-out, a dusted-off academic theory, and a spaghetti monster led an AWS team to crack an elusive code—and deliver greater reliability and performance for customers.
aboutamazon.com
blog.cloudflare.com/cyber-fronti... #cloudflare #mythos #anthropic
Project Glasswing: what Mythos showed us
In recent weeks, we pointed Mythos and other security-focused LLMs at live code across critical parts of our infrastructure. We share what we observed, the models’ strengths and weaknesses, and what t...
blog.cloudflare.com
… are fucking kidding me. A github.com cross-account RCE due to the most pedestrian of injection attacks along the obvious exposed surface… and they actually have a globally shared “git” UNIX user!! This is not what taking the role of supply chain stewards seriously looks like.
GitHub RCE Vulnerability: CVE-2026-3854 Breakdown | Wiz Blog
A CVSS 8.7 vulnerability in GitHub Enterprise Server allows remote code execution. Read the threat brief and find vulnerable GHES instances from Wiz.
wiz.io
> By the time a CVE becomes public knowledge, the necessary fix has typically been integrated into stable Linux LTS releases for several weeks. Our established procedures ensure that we have already deployed these patches.🚀 blog.cloudflare.com/copy-fail-li...
How Cloudflare responded to the “Copy Fail” Linux vulnerability
When a critical Linux kernel privilege escalation was publicly disclosed, Cloudflare's security and engineering teams detected, investigated, and mitigated the threat across our global fleet, confirmi...
blog.cloudflare.com
xark.es/b/mythos-fir..., interesting analysis with the dust settling after Mythos announcement
A quick look at Mythos run on Firefox: too much hype?
A closer look at Mozilla's Firefox 150
xark.es
it's coming sooner than expected #cloudflare #pqc #security blog.cloudflare.com/post-quantum...
Cloudflare targets 2029 for full post-quantum security
Recent advances in quantum hardware and software have accelerated the timeline on which quantum attack might happen. Cloudflare is responding by moving our target for full post-quantum security to 202...
blog.cloudflare.com
Nice use case of porting a library between languages! www.reco.ai/blog/we-rewr...
We Rewrote JSONata with AI in a Day, Saved $500K/Year | Reco
One engineer used AI to rewrite JSONata as a pure-Go library called gnata. Seven hours, $400 in tokens, 1,000x speedup, and $500K/year off our cloud bill.
reco.ai
This is an interesting case study of our adversaries observing, learning & adapting around preferred western ways of war. The authoritarian learning & adaptation bloc is almost certainly sharing these ideas among themselves. www.justsecurity.org/134720/iran-...
Iran Built a Military to Survive the American Way of War
Iran’s staying power is not proof that the regime is strong; it is proof that it read the American way of war playbook.
justsecurity.org
A New Russian Game on the Borders of the Baltics | “We should care about Russian provocations but it’s extremely important how we care.” Meelis Oidsalu
A New Russian Game on the Borders of the Baltics
We should care about Russian provocations in the Baltic States but it’s extremely important how we care about them.
cepa.org
In China, battery makers bet big on sodium in move away from critical minerals reut.rs/4shXtCi
In China, battery makers bet big on sodium in move away from critical minerals
As the rest of the world tries to catch up with China in making lithium-ion batteries, Chinese manufacturers have already moved into a new battleground: sodium-ion, a technology that is set to revolutionise battery supply chains.
reut.rs
Belgium is hiring a Ukrainian firm to build drones on Belgian soil – not just buying hardware, but importing the expertise behind the most combat-tested drone program in the world. It's part of a wider NATO pattern: Europe isn't just supporting Ukraine anymore. It's learning from it.
Belgium turns to Ukraine to build its own drone industry, citing lessons from the front line
New contract with a Ukrainian company will produce drones and drone detection systems on Belgian soil.
euromaidanpress.com
Spy ships like this are basically floating vacuum cleaners for signals and radar data. Parking one near a hot conflict lets Beijing watch how U.S. forces operate in real time- priceless intelligence for Iran. #China #Espionage #MilitaryIntelligence #iran www.timesnownews.com/world/middle...
A 30,000-Ton Chinese Eye Watching America's War On Iran?
A 30,000-ton Chinese spy ship may be watching America's Iran war from the Gulf of Oman — ships in the Persian Gulf already knew, switching transponders to "Chinese Owner" to avoid Iranian drones. Some...
timesnownews.com
This shows how hard intelligence warnings can be to accept before events prove them right. Analysts see the signals, but leaders still decide whether the threat is real or a bluff. History vindicates the intel only after it's too late! #UkraineWar #CIA #MI6 www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
A war foretold: how the CIA and MI6 got hold of Putin’s Ukraine plans and why nobody believed them
Drawing on more than 100 interviews with senior intelligence officials and other insiders in multiple countries, this exclusive account details how the US and Britain uncovered Vladimir Putin’s plans ...
theguardian.com
“A classified report by the National Intelligence Council found that even a large-scale assault on Iran launched by the United States would be unlikely to oust the Islamic republic’s entrenched military and clerical establishment.” wapo.st/4lcrq3M
Intel report warns large-scale war ‘unlikely’ to oust Iran’s regime
A classified U.S. report doubts that Iran’s opposition would take power following either a short or extended U.S. military campaign.
wapo.st
"A close look at Russia’s situation, both militarily and economically, paints a very different picture from the one Putin wants us to see." ISW's Deputy Russia Team Lead Christina Harward in NY Post: https://nypost.com/2026/02/22/opinion/four-years-into-war-on-ukraine-putins-bluff-must-be-called/
Four years into the war on Ukraine, Vladimir Putin’s bluff must be called
With a weakened economy and battlefield casualties outnumbering new recruits, Putin is projecting false confidence.
nypost.com
“The main thing we took away from all of this was that we need to work with worst-case scenarios much more than we did before.” A war foretold: how the CIA and MI6 got hold of Putin’s Ukraine plans and why nobody believed them. www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
A war foretold: how the CIA and MI6 got hold of Putin’s Ukraine plans and why nobody believed them
Drawing on more than 100 interviews with senior intelligence officials and other insiders in multiple countries, this exclusive account details how the US and Britain uncovered Vladimir Putin’s plans ...
theguardian.com
"Eventually shock wears off, responses are developed & counterpunches delivered. This will be the case with the Starlink shutdown. Ukraine will have limited time to exploit the opportunities of the degraded C2 environment now endured by Russian ground forces." mickryan.substack.com/p/starlink-s...
Starlink Surprise
Ukraine surprised Russia with the Starlink shut off, and they have made the most of that surprise to take back territory. But like all surprises, the time to exploit that opportunity is limited.
mickryan.substack.com
The FBI can’t get into a Washington Post reporter’s phone, in part because it was set to Lockdown Mode. www.404media.co/fbi-couldnt-...
FBI Couldn’t Get into WaPo Reporter’s iPhone Because It Had Lockdown Mode Enabled
Lockdown Mode is a sometimes overlooked feature of Apple devices that broadly make them harder to hack. A court record indicates the feature might be effective at stopping third parties unlocking some...
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