Vercel's security breach started with malware disguised as Roblox cheats The attack, which originated at Context.ai, showcases the pitfalls of interconnected cloud applications and SaaS integrations with overly privileged permissions.

cyberscoop.com/vercel-secur...

I say again:  We are living in the dumbest cyberdystopia.

Gary Larson, predicting the future in 1987.

Cult of the Dead Cow and the Roots of Modern Cyber Ethics with Joe Menn YouTube video by McCrary Institute

Watch the full episode: youtu.be/6_NLr2O4SRA

The first thing we can teach you is that "Cyber" is not a noun.

DEAD COW NEWS!

WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG

Anthropic Mythos model can find and exploit 0-days : Hasn't released it to the public, because it would break the internet - in a bad way

www.theregister.com/2026/04/07/a...

WELL THAT DOESN'T SEEM GREAT.

The post-quantum cryptography timeline accelerating at the same time that mythos is creating mass CVEs is really threatening to alter my roadmaps

Mine:

If you, as an infosec professional, have any "internet-of-things" or "smart home" devices connected to any network that any device that contains or interacts with sensitive data connects to... Than I absolutely do not trust your infosec expertise.

How Trump Took the U.S. to War With Iran

The name "Stephen Miller" appears not once in this article and I want to know why. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/07/u...

(watching a movie where a character announces that he will destroy a city if they don't meet his specific demands by a certain deadline)

oh that's probably the good guy in this movie

I don’t want to hear about brave and conflicted service members I want to hear about people sacrificing their careers to do the right thing

Hey, speaking of War Powers, we're on Day 38 of 60 before Congress either needs to give their assent or a drawdown must start.

That's 22 days left, and I think 3 weeks to accomplish _something_ worth bragging about is starting to seem tight.

Artemis II toilet acts up again as astronauts speed toward the moon to break Apollo 13's record The Artemis II astronauts are more than halfway to the moon. The three Americans and one Canadian will reach their destination Monday, performing a lunar flyby and then coming straight back home.

apnews.com/article/nasa...

HOUSTON, WE HAVE A POOROBLEM.

CULT OF THE DEAD COW can neither confirm nor deny widespread media reports of our involvement in the design and naming of the K-RAD CUBE recently deployed by the Artemis II moon mission.

Claude Code's Entire Source Code Was Just Leaked via npm Source Maps — Here's What's Inside A security researcher found Anthropic's full CLI source code exposed through a source map file. 1,900 files. 512,000+ lines. Everything.

dev.to/gabrielanhai...

OOPSY DAISY

The FCC bans all routers made outside the U.S. So basically all routers.

mashable.com/article/us-f...

GOOD LUCK WITH THAT.

Demonseed Elite Demonseed Elite is an urban legend among the Virtual Adepts. The Virtual Adepts use the handle "Demonseed Elite" to refer to an early Master who supposedly worked for Bell Labs in the 1970s. By means ...

whitewolf.fandom.com/wiki/Demonse...

CANON.

🤯🤕 "The development comes days after TikTok said it does not plan to introduce E2EE to secure direct messages on the platform, telling BBC News that the technology makes users less safe and that it wants to protect users, especially young people, from harm."

Today would be a good day for it to happen, historically speaking.

Just sayin'.

Meta to Shut Down Instagram End-to-End Encrypted Chat Support Starting May 2026 Meta will end Instagram E2EE chats May 8, 2026, reversing a 2021 privacy test and reigniting debate over encrypted messaging oversight.

thehackernews.com/2026/03/meta...

FAECEBOOK CONTINUES TO SUCK.

Gosh. Sure is a good thing we're not currently being terrorised by an out-of-control secret police force that has demonstrated that they will use any source of information they can get their hands on to further abuse people all over the country in any way they can.

An upcoming California law requires operating system providers to enforce basic mandatory age verification It's basic, and by the looks of it, near unenforceable.

www.pcgamer.com/software/ope...

UH-HUH.

GOOD LUCK ENFORCING THAT.

HOW ABOUT A NICE GAME OF CHESS?

Strongly reminiscent of this infamous diagram of a slaver ship. We are repeating our evils.

This is also hacktivism.

Age verification!? The first time I connected to the internet I had to break into a defense contractor to do so.

Umm... allegedly.

THIS IS THE WAY.

Exclusive: Hacktivist scrapes over 500,000 stalkerware customers' payment records More than half-a-million people who bought access to phone surveillance and social media snooping apps had their email address and partial payment card numbers published online.

techcrunch.com/2026/02/09/h...

Hacktivism lives.

Amazingly, this isn't the first time this has happened. I remember reading about a similar situation ~30 years ago.