Edward Snowden: the NSA leak that redefined privacy
Thirteen years ago, Edward Snowden exposed the NSA's mass surveillance. Here's what he revealed, the fallout abroad, and …
Information Security 144 posts
Information security in plain English: scams, hardening and privacy — plus retrogaming, games and geek culture.
Morris Worm: the 1988 worm that nearly took down the internet
On 2 November 1988, a worm released by a Cornell student brought down 6,000 computers and almost stopped the entire …
Clipper malware steals crypto via USB and uses Tor as C2
Microsoft warns of a campaign active since February 2026 that combines a USB worm, clipboard hijacking and Tor-based C2 …
Passkeys: how truly passwordless authentication works
Credentials are the number one breach vector — 22% of cases. Passkeys fix that: the private key never leaves your …
iFood data breach: 1.2 million Brazilian IDs exposed
iFood confirmed a breach dating to December 2025: names, national ID numbers and addresses of 1.2 million customers …
ShinyHunters exploits Oracle PeopleSoft zero-day, 100+ victims
ShinyHunters exploited CVE-2026-35273, a CVSS 9.8 zero-day in Oracle PeopleSoft, to breach 100+ organisations before a …
Aflac: breach exposes the data of 22.7 million people
The US insurer confirms that a June 2025 attack exposed the health data and SSNs of 22.7 million people. It took a year …
SolarWinds Serv-U: CVE-2026-28318 downs a server with one POST
CISA added CVE-2026-28318 to the KEV: a POST with deflate takes down Serv-U without authentication. More than 12,000 …
CVE-2026-50751: Qilin exploits a Check Point VPN zero-day
Qilin ransomware exploited CVE-2026-50751 in Check Point VPN for 31 days before the patch. The IKEv1 zero-day bypasses …
Miasma: supply chain worm infects 32 Red Hat npm packages
On 1 June, the Miasma worm compromised 32 Red Hat npm packages and stole AWS, Azure, GCP and Kubernetes credentials …