Sometimes I wonder whether the people sending unsolicited website offers actually visit the sites they want to redesign. On October 16, 2026, I received another…
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Back in 2013, Target suffered a massive breach. In 2024, I asked why traffic-light controllers were accessible over the Internet. Now, in October 2026, we…
1 CommentI usually wouldn’t put a posting for what seems to be a minor release but while searching for articles today on windows news for 10…
Leave a CommentWe’ve been spending a lot of time discussing artificial intelligence on The Security Box lately. Sometimes we’re talking about useful tools. Sometimes we’re talking about…
Leave a CommentSometimes you read a cybersecurity story and wonder whether somebody is deliberately trying to win the Stupid Fuck Award. Well, thanks to the October 13,…
Leave a CommentHi all. Well after an interesting family holiday I am back with the following. firefox 158.01 is out, thunderbird will follow. Chrome 156 is out,…
Leave a CommentBack in January 2025, I wrote about accessiBe and the claim that an automated accessibility product could make websites accessible. I was not impressed then,…
Leave a CommentHi all. Welcome to another week of, well what is the question. Firstly firefox and thunderbird are at 158 now. Updates to the usual dotnet…
Leave a CommentHi all. Well chrome 155 is out. As is usual if you do about:components to update components after you update you may have an issue…
Leave a CommentHi all. More chromium updates happened with ege being last on the block as well as adobe reader. Not much got updated though and bar…
Leave a CommentA domain name that developers have treated like a harmless placeholder for years is now being used to deliver a ClickFix attack. According to BleepingComputer,…
Leave a CommentAn experimental OpenAI model was given what sounds like a routine research assignment: find publicly available information about government spending on medicines for skin conditions…
Leave a CommentWe spend a lot of time talking about ransomware and extortion groups attacking companies, stealing data and demanding money. But every once in a while,…
Leave a CommentResearchers at cyber risk management company UpGuard have found more than 16,000 Supabase databases exposing readable tables, with personally identifiable information showing up in more…
Leave a CommentThreat actors have found another way to turn a legitimate online service into part of a malware delivery chain. This time, they abused custom versions…
Leave a CommentHi all. Some day I will start a tech post which is not patches, bugs, other such stuff. For whatever reason everything came out in…
Leave a CommentThe FBI has issued a public warning to members of the ShinyHunters extortion group following the arrest of a 24-year-old man in Amsterdam who authorities…
Leave a CommentHi all. Well another unremarkable update day has arrived. I have mailed a post to the blog on smart glasses from a descussion list fully…
Leave a CommentHi all. Ok, I know I did a bunch of stuff earlier but this is the wrapped up list of updates as there are a…
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PHP2Shell and the Internet’s Very Bad Day: What Happened, What’s Vulnerable, and What We Can Learn
October 23, 2026 Sometimes a cybersecurity story develops so quickly that it’s difficult to understand just how serious the situation has become. This week, we…