Cybersecurity Microsoft's 2011 Secure Boot Certificates Are Expiring and Most Windows Users Don't Know It Microsoft is displaying escalating Secure Boot warnings starting May 13 (Windows 10) and May 16 (Windows 11). The original 2011 certificates expire in October 2026. Unpatched systems may refuse to boot. Here's the full technical picture and what to do.
Cybersecurity CVE-2026-41940: The cPanel Authentication Bypass That Runs 70 Million Domains and Is Being Weaponized Right Now CVE-2026-41940 is a CVSS 9.8 authentication bypass in cPanel/WHM affecting every version after 11.40. It was a zero-day for two months, 44,000 IPs are now scanning, ransomware has deployed, and a state-linked actor is hitting Southeast Asian government networks. Patch now.
Cybersecurity CVE-2026-31431 "Copy Fail": How a 9-Year-Old Linux Kernel Bug Gives Any Local User Root in 732 Bytes CVE-2026-31431 chains AF_ALG, splice(), and authencesn's ESN scratch write into a deterministic 4-byte page cache write that gives an unprivileged local user root. Full technical breakdown, exploit mechanics, detection, mitigation, and patch status per distro.
Cybersecurity CVE-2026-33032: The nginx-ui MCP Vulnerability That Hands Attackers Full Server Control CVE-2026-33032, dubbed MCPwn, is a CVSS 9.8 authentication bypass in nginx-ui's MCP integration that lets any attacker on the internet restart your Nginx server, rewrite your configs, and intercept all traffic -- in two HTTP requests, no credentials required. Roughly 2,700 instances are exposed.
Cybersecurity BlueHammer: The Unpatched Windows Zero-Day That Weaponizes Microsoft Defender Against Your Own System BlueHammer is an unpatched, publicly released Windows local privilege escalation exploit that chains Microsoft Defender's update workflow, Volume Shadow Copy, Cloud Files callbacks, and opportunistic locks to reach NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM from a standard user account.
Artificial intelligence Claude Mythos Hacked Every Major OS, Escaped Its Sandbox, and Emailed a Researcher Eating a Sandwich. We Need to Talk. I use AI as a tool. I'll say that upfront. Claude helps me write frontends faster. It handles search queries that Google stopped being useful for three years ago. I hand it boilerplate I've written by hand a thousand times and I get time back. That&
Cybersecurity CVE-2025-62718: The Axios Crisis — A Critical SSRF Vuln, a North Korean Supply Chain Attack, and Why Every Node.js Developer Needs to Act Right Now Axios — 100 million weekly npm downloads, used in practically every Node.js application on the planet — got hit twice in two weeks. On March 31, 2026, North Korean state actors hijacked the lead maintainer's npm account and deployed a cross-platform RAT through a malicious dependency.
Cybersecurity What is Penetration Testing? The Discipline of Breaking Things Before Attackers Do Penetration testing is authorized, structured hacking — finding vulnerabilities in systems, networks, and applications before real attackers do. Here's the full methodology, every phase of a real engagement, the tools professionals use, and how to build a career in it.
Cybersecurity What is Cybersecurity? The Field That Keeps the Internet From Collapsing Cybersecurity is the discipline of protecting systems, networks, and data from attack, damage, and unauthorized access. Here's what it actually covers, how attacks work, how defense works, and why every developer needs to understand it.
