He didn’t think he was taking about Cyber Security, but he gave me a good idea for cyber security. A hardware store owner in Danville told me last week that he spends one Saturday every April cleaning out his shop, tossing the stuff that piled up over winter, fixing the door latch he kept meaning […]
Cyber Security Weekly Top 5 — Week of April 27 – May 3, 2026
Top 5 Cybersecurity News Stories 1. “Copy Fail” Linux Kernel Vulnerability Puts Virtually Every Distribution at Risk (CVE-2026-31431) A critical local privilege escalation flaw in the Linux kernel’s algif_aead cryptographic module has sent shockwaves through the security community. Dubbed “Copy Fail,” this vulnerability carries a CVSS score of 7.8 and allows an unprivileged user to […]
Public Wi-Fi Is an Open Door. Here Is How to Lock It.
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. […]