This Means War: Nate Silver Describes a Coup and Calls It the Weather

The Substack migration that Nate Silver is celebrating today is also worth scrutiny. Moving from a captured public square to private subscription newsletters doesn’t restore information integrity. It privatizes it. The people who can afford $200/…

CVE-2026-35616: Fortinet fixes actively exploited high-severity flaw

Fortinet issued emergency patches for a critical FortiClient EMS flaw (CVE-2026-35616) actively exploited in the wild. Fortinet released out-of-band patches for a critical FortiClient EMS vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-35616 (CVSS 9.1), which is already being exploited in attacks in the wild. The flaw is an improper access control issue that allows attackers to bypass authentication […]

Why Tom Holland is Going to Hell

CNN ran an Easter feature on Tom Holland, the British pop historian who wrote Dominion and now tours the American evangelical circuit as their favorite secular validator. The headline promises a “brush with the supernatural.” The article de…

Decoding the Secret Dark Messaging of German Netflix

Way back in 1995 Bryan Singer gave us a special decoder key to video-based information. He is supposed to be Turkish. Some say his father was German. Nobody believed he was real. Keyser Söze was the invisible supervillain. The menace was the ethni…

Image or Malware? Read until the end and answer in comments :)

A malicious email delivered a .cmd malware that escalates privileges, bypasses antivirus, downloads payloads, sets persistence, and self-deletes. I received this email from a friend to make an analysis. First, let me express my thanks to Janô Falkowski Burkard for this amazing contribution. A little context, He received an email that was really strange and […]

“Hard Down”: Iran Missiles Hit Two AWS Zones

In this sixth week of war, as Iran has missiles flying all over the place. Oracle announced an outage and now this: Iranian strikes have rendered two Amazon Web Services availability zones “hard down” in Dubai and Bahrain and the company expects them t…