Latest Intelligence
Denmark Was Not Hacked, It Was Logged Into
Attackers never breached Denmark's national population register. They abused one trusted company's legitimate access to enumerate and pull 8.8 million identities, then got caught by the bill, not by security. Permission, not malware, emptied the CPR.
Eleven Years After the OPM Breach the Pentagon Lost Three Million More Records
OPM was supposed to be the breach that changed everything. Eleven years later, a Pentagon data hub exposed 3 million defense personnel through a file-sharing flaw nobody watched for nine months. DoD wrote the fix into its own 2022 strategy, then skipped it. The warehouses are still open.
Why I Finally Left the iPhone for Android
For almost eighteen years, my primary phone was never really a decision. It was an iPhone. Now it is a Samsung, and not because Android is better. In plenty of ways it is not. It became the phone my hand keeps reaching for, and working out why turned into something worth writing about.
Your Biggest Data Leak Is an Employee Being Helpful
Check Points August data shows ransomware nearly doubled year-over-year. But the sharper number is not about attackers at all. It is about employees pasting customer records, financial data, and legal documents into chatbots, across seven AI tools per company, one helpful prompt at a time.
Nobody Broke Into Revolut, They Just Asked
Revolut handed a stranger its customers passports, selfies, and full transaction histories. Nobody broke in. A fraudster asked, using a legitimate government email domain, and Revolut said yes. No hack, no exploit, just an email and a lie, and the trust a bank extends to anything official.
You Bought a Screen, LG Installed a Microphone That Never Sleeps
A $70k investigation found LG OLED TVs capturing clear microphone audio in standby, storing it even with the ethernet unplugged, and mapping every device and wifi network around them. The mic cannot be turned off at the hardware level. And LG's denial is carefully worded around one specific phrase.
You Never Chose the Company That Just Leaked Your Face
More than 153 million driver's license records are allegedly for sale on the dark web for US$100, traced to an identity verification vendor most victims never heard of. You cannot change your face or your date of birth. Lawmakers want to make this exact model mandatory to use the internet.
Dyson Put a Beautiful Camera in Your Mouth and a Trap in Your Bathroom
Dyson's $499 AI toothbrush is genuinely clever engineering, and also a networked lens in the most private room in your home, an unaudited privacy claim, a fresh attack surface, and a razor-and-blades model built backwards. All of it is true at once.