Security

Phones that ring under the guise of IT support have quietly become breach vectors, as retail counters and hotel front desks field urgent calls that end with executive logins compromised and cloud data queued for export. A new assessment from Unit 42 and RH-ISAC identified BlackFile, tracked as

From Benign Commas to Root Shells: How a Tiny Parsing Quirk Became a 15-Year Trap Seasoned defenders call it the most humbling kind of bug: one stray comma in a principal field that lets a valid SSH certificate unlock root while logs nod along as if nothing unusual happened. Across security teams,

Boardrooms cheered record AI rollouts while basic safeguards frayed, and attackers quietly slipped through reopened cracks. The tension between speed and security was no longer theoretical; it was surfacing in real incidents where sanctioned AI projects stumbled on fundamentals long considered

Malik Haidar has spent years inside multinationals translating threat intelligence into boardroom-ready decisions, bridging analytics with business impact. In this conversation with Jason Costain, he unpacks what an early, Lua‑powered sabotage platform reveals about state priorities, how k

A Breach That Started With a Build One routine command at a terminal—npm install—had quietly become a launchpad for theft, persistence, and lateral movement that traveled farther than most developers ever expected their tools could carry. Researchers at Socket reported a live campaign hiding inside

Why Fixes to Security Tools Matter Now: Context, Stakes, and What This Story Covers Breaches often begin where trust is highest, and security platforms sit closest to the crown jewels, so a single unpatched flaw can flip defenses into conduits for stealthy data access, lateral movement, and