Every free public wi-fi connection comes with a cost you cannot see on the terms-of-service screen. Last month, a county clerk in eastern Kentucky stopped at a coffee shop between meetings and logged into the office email over the shop’s public wi-fi. Nothing seemed wrong. Two weeks later, her office discovered that someone had intercepted […]
Cyber Security Weekly Top 5 Week of April 20–26, 2026
Top 5 Cyber Security News Stories 1. Bitwarden CLI Compromised in Supply Chain Attack The command-line interface for popular password manager Bitwarden was briefly hijacked on April 22 as part of an ongoing supply chain campaign exploiting Checkmarx’s npm distribution pipeline. The malicious package, @bitwarden/cli@2026.4.0, was live for roughly 90 minutes before detection and contained […]
A Cyber Attack Hollywood Finally Got Right!
Halfway through the second season of HBO’s The Pitt, the fictional Pittsburgh Trauma Medical Center loses its computers to a cyber attack. Not to a direct hit. A neighboring hospital is hit by ransomware, and Pittsburgh Trauma shuts down its network as a precaution. In minutes, the emergency room goes analog. Nurses dig for paper […]
Cyber Security Weekly Top 5 — Week of April 13-19, 2026
1. Operation PowerOFF Dismantles Global DDoS-for-Hire Empire On April 13, a sweeping international law enforcement operation spanning 21 countries struck a decisive blow against the DDoS-for-hire ecosystem. Authorities seized 53 domains, arrested four individuals, and exposed databases containing over 3 million criminal user accounts tied to commercial DDoS services used by more than 75,000 cybercriminals. […]
Demystifying Artificial Intelligence and Cyber Security
Many people are excited about Artificial Intelligence, while others fear it. Both perspectives are valid! A county clerk in western Kentucky asked me a quiet question last month. Was it safe to open the email attachments her vendor sent her every week? She was not being foolish. A neighboring county had just been locked out […]
Cyber Security Weekly: Top 5 Cybersecurity News for the Week of April 6–12, 2026
1. North Korean Hackers Flood Developer Ecosystems with 1,700 Malicious Packages North Korea-linked threat actors operating under the “Contagious Interview” campaign have distributed over 1,700 malicious packages across npm, PyPI, Go, Rust, and Packagist, the most expansive software supply chain poisoning operation attributed to the group to date. The packages impersonate legitimate developer tooling and […]