Thoughts and musings of David Greenberg, a polymath
Last month, Discord quickly backpedaled after it announced that an age-verification system would roll out globally. Discord’s reversal followed a widespread user backlash, which also intensified scrutiny of the platform’s…
Apple on Tuesday released its first round of Background Security Improvements to address a security flaw in WebKit that affects iOS, iPadOS, and macOS. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-20643 (CVSS…
A high-severity security flaw affecting default installations of Ubuntu Desktop versions 24.04 and later could be exploited to escalate privileges to the root level. Tracked as CVE-2026-3888 (CVSS score: 7.8),…
Security teams today are not short on tools or data. They are overwhelmed by both. Yet within the terabytes of alerts, exposures, and misconfigurations – security teams still struggle to…
Cybersecurity researchers have warned about the risks posed by low-cost IP KVM (Keyboard, Video, Mouse over Internet Protocol) devices, which can grant attackers extensive control over compromised hosts. The nine…
When a Magecart payload hides inside the EXIF data of a dynamically loaded third-party favicon, no repository scanner will catch it – because the malicious code never actually touches your…
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a critical security flaw impacting the GNU InetUtils telnet daemon (telnetd) that could be exploited by an unauthenticated remote attacker to execute arbitrary code with elevated…
Amazon Threat Intelligence is warning of an active Interlock ransomware campaign that’s exploiting a recently disclosed critical security flaw in Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center (FMC) Software. The vulnerability in…
The boat strike program the Trump administration is engaged in isn’t actually supported by law. Even his own in-house counsel can’t seem to agree on what justification to use. Shortly…
We’ve noted repeatedly how the U.S. authoritarian right is buying up all of our new and old media companies because they’re trying to mimic what Viktor Orban created in Hungary.…