Collaborate Disseminate
Four former NSA bosses walk onto the stage at RSAC… rsac 2026 There’s a theoretical red line with cyber warfare. Cross it, and the US will respond with a physical attack like missile strikes. And that line “is whatever the President says it is,” accor… Continue reading Only Trump can decide when cyberwar turns into real war
Omnissa telemetry suggests business buyers are loving Apple and Google End-user compute vendor Omnissa, the company formed by the spin-out of VMware’s virtual desktops, applications, and device management biz, has dug into the telemetry it collects fro… Continue reading Enterprise PCs are unreliable, unpatched, and unloved compared to Macs
Cyber rights org retools for the days of AI and unrestrained government interview The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) on Tuesday appointed Nicole Ozer to succeed Cindy Cohn as the cyber rights group’s executive director when Cohn departs this sum… Continue reading EFF has a new boss to lead the fight against privacy-sucking forces of doom
Crims ‘creating a snowball effect’ across open source projects RSAC 2026 Thousands of organizations’ cloud environments have been infected with secret-stealing malware as a result of the Trivy supply-chain attack last week, and now the crims that comp… Continue reading 1K+ cloud environments infected following Trivy supply chain attack
Python interface for LLMs infected with malware via polluted CI/CD pipeline Two versions of LiteLLM, an open source interface for accessing multiple large language models, have been removed from the Python Package Index (PyPI) following a supply chain … Continue reading LiteLLM loses game of Trivy pursuit, gets compromised
Nearly 300 employees caught up in intrusion at benefits provider Navia Almost 300 HackerOne employees are caught up in a data breach, with the bug bounty biz slamming a third-party benefits provider for a weeks-long delay in notification.… Continue reading HackerOne slams supplier for delayed breach notice after staff data exposed
Unfortunately, there aren’t many options unless you’re Starlink Citing national security fears, America is effectively banning any new consumer-grade network routers made abroad.… Continue reading Country that put backdoors into Cisco routers to spy on world bans foreign routers
Aleksei Volkov sentenced after enabling attacks that cost victims millions A Russian national who sold the keys to corporate networks faces nearly seven years in a US prison after prosecutors tied his handiwork to a string of ransomware attacks costing… Continue reading Russian initial access broker who fed ransomware crews gets 81 months in US prison
‘It freakin’ worked’ says Rob Joyce – and shows how relentless AI agents can find holes humans miss RSAC 2026 The now-infamous Anthropic report about Chinese cyberspies abusing Claude AI to automate cyberattacks was a Rorschach test for the infosec co… Continue reading Claude attacks were ‘Rorschach test’ for infosec community, scaring former NSA boss
Washington content to be represented by actual empty chairs RSAC 2026 Back in the day (circa 2023) when cybercrime group Scattered Spider and its help-desk voice-phishing calls were a relatively new threat, the feds considered pulling the government’s… Continue reading Public-private partnerships vital in disrupting China’s Typhoons, says RSA panel with no government speakers