Ransomware Exfiltration: Why Encryption Is Dead in 2026
Last year, ransomware crews launched ~50% more attacks — and made ~8% less money. The lock stopped paying, so they stopped using it. In 2026, 94% of ransomware
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Wi-Fi 7 Speed Claims vs Reality: MLO and 6 GHz
Wi-Fi 7 promises 46 gigabits per second. Your access point is plugged into a 1-gig switch port. Guess which number wins. The radio is real and genuinely good —
MCP Security: How Agentjacking Compromised AI Agents in 2026
In June 2026, researchers took over AI coding agents — Claude Code, Cursor, Codex — with no phishing, no malware, and a public credential developers paste into
Passkeys: The FIDO Standard Defeating Phishing & Credential Theft
Every breach in our last episode died the same way it started — with a password. So this week: the fix that's finally winning. On World Passkey Day this May, th
Social Engineering Attacks: The 5 Failures Behind 2026's Worst Breaches
Six months into 2026 and the breach scoreboard is brutal: 22 million Aflac records, 30 million students locked out during finals, the FBI's own surveillance sys
Post-Quantum Cryptography: NIST Standards and Quantum Threats
Right now, somewhere, an adversary is copying your encrypted VPN traffic. They can't read it today. They're saving it — for the day a quantum computer can crack
Cisco Cloud Control 2026: Unified Platform for Enterprise Networks
450%. That's how much more network traffic an AI agent generates than a human doing the same task. Cisco measured it, put it on the big screen at Cisco Live 202
Non-Human Identity Security Explained — The 45:1 NHI Crisis in 2026
45 to 1. In the average enterprise, for every human user there are 45 machine identities. Every API key. Every service account. Every agent token. Every secret
OT/ICS Security: Defending Critical Infrastructure from Volt Typhoon
$140K. When you mess up, the lights go out for real. Final episode of TechUpdates Special Series. The most consequential security job almost nobody talks about
Salt Typhoon: CALEA Backdoor Abuse & Telecom Breach Explained
In late 2024, Verizon, AT&T, and T-Mobile all admitted the same thing: their lawful-intercept systems — the ones they build for law enforcement — had been c