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The Edge Device Is the Perimeter: Why the Box You Bought to Keep Them Out Is How They Get In

Edge devices and VPNs jumped from 3% to 22% of exploitation-driven breaches in a single year. The reasons are structural: an appliance cannot host an agent, cannot easily be imaged, and is patched on a change-control calendar while the exploit runs on a script.

On August 31, 2026
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The Password Memo Was Honest. The Checklist Wasn’t.

The 2004 NIST memo blamed for password composition rules hedged its own numbers and predicted how users would defeat them. It also never contained the 90-day rotation rule everyone attributes to it.

On August 27, 2026
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As Is: How Software Became the Only Product You Could Legally Sell Broken

For forty years software shipped with every default warranty disclaimed. Two EU instruments arriving in 2026 and 2027 remove that baseline - and the disclaimer stops working.

On August 24, 2026
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The Production Incident Class Your Postmortem Template Doesn’t Have

An agent that follows its instructions perfectly can still take down a third party. Why blameless postmortems assume three things autonomous agents do not provide.

On August 20, 2026
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When Config Became Executable: The Twenty-Year Pattern Behind Supply Chain Attacks

Across event-stream, SolarWinds, xz utils and the 2026 npm worms, the malicious artifact was never in the repository anyone reviewed. Why CVE-based scanning was blind to 100% of documented campaigns, and why AI agent config files are only the newest file that executes without being called code.

On August 10, 2026
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Compliant With What? A Working Map of GDPR, HIPAA, SOC 2 and ISO 27001

Two of the four are laws you can only be found in violation of; two are attestations you can buy. A practical map of what each framework actually asks, where the control sets genuinely overlap, and why the published overlap figures range from 43% to 85%.

On August 2, 2026
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Does Your SaaS Actually Need a Data Protection Officer? Running the Article 37 Test

The GDPR question SaaS founders ask most often has no numeric answer — it turns on two deliberately undefined phrases. And whichever way you land, you need to be able to show your work.

On July 23, 2026
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A 10-Minute Phone Call Took Down MGM’s Systems. The 19-Year-Old Behind a Similar Scheme Just Got Extradited.

Peter Stokes, 19, was extradited from Finland to face charges tied to Scattered Spider — a group whose signature move isn't malware, it's a convincing phone call to an IT help desk.

On June 23, 2026
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Microsoft’s Own AI Service Took Down Azure for Nearly 8 Hours — Because of a Change That Looked Fine in One Region

A rollout that seemed contained in Australia East got pushed to Sweden Central before anyone realized it was the cause — turning a manageable blip into a nearly eight-hour Azure OpenAI Service outage.

On June 8, 2026
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FDA’s AI Medical Device Approvals Aren’t Just Growing — They’re Finally Breaking Out of Radiology

Six AI medical devices got FDA clearance in 2015. Two hundred ninety-five got cleared in 2025. But the real story in the 2026 numbers isn't the growth rate — it's that radiology, which has dominated for a decade, is finally losing share.

On May 31, 2026
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