Data Breaches / Explainer
What stolen session tokens change about account security
A successful login creates ongoing authority. Protecting that authority requires controls that extend beyond passwords and the moment of multifactor authentication.
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Cybersecurity / News analysis
The Sality takedown shows why disruption needs a path to victim recovery
The September announcement connected an infrastructure operation with notification and remediation, two parts of the story that deserve separate measures of progress.
Companies / Field guide
How to compare OpenAI and Anthropic for enterprise use
A durable comparison begins with workload evidence, data flows, integration boundaries, and operating requirements. A model leaderboard cannot settle those questions.
Cybersecurity / Analysis
Workload identity changes what a secret-management system must protect
Replacing permanent application keys can reduce exposure. The remaining work is to secure credential issuance, limit authority, and make the entire lifecycle observable.
Technology / Explainer
Why AI performance depends on moving data as well as doing arithmetic
Memory capacity, bandwidth, and compute throughput answer different questions. A useful performance comparison starts with the workload.
Cyberwarfare / News analysis
The QTFY disruption targeted the machinery behind concealed cyber operations
The FBI's August announcement offers a case for examining infrastructure disruption as an intervention with measurable, limited goals.
Software / Explainer
A software signature needs an identity, an artifact, and an acceptance policy
Signing and provenance can make a release traceable. Their value depends on verifying the right claims against expectations you actually trust.
Artificial Intelligence / Explainer
A bigger context window is not a better memory
Long-context models can accept more information. Whether they use the right information remains a separate question.
AI Security / Explainer
The data an AI learns from is a security boundary
Data poisoning can target training, adaptation and retrieval. Provenance and controlled updates matter long before a suspicious answer appears.
Data Breaches / Explainer
What a data breach number actually tells you
Records, accounts, email addresses, and people are different units. Reading the denominator is essential to understanding the scale and consequences of an incident.
Startups / Analysis
An AI pilot needs a stop rule
A trial becomes an investment decision only when the team agrees what would justify expansion, further testing, a narrower use, or an orderly stop.
Cybersecurity / Explainer
Zero trust starts with the resource someone wants to reach
The useful design question is who may perform which action on which resource, under what conditions. Network location supplies context, not automatic permission.