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eMudhra Broke Almost Nothing, and Still Dented the Chain of Trust

eMudhra Broke Almost Nothing, and Still Dented the Chain of Trust

Eight eMudhra intermediate CA keys turned out to be numbers under 256. Browsers blocked them within hours, almost no site broke, and eMudhra is leaving the TLS business. The service impact was tiny. The lesson for the chain of trust is not.

The Threat Was Already Badged In: Insider Lessons From Two Lab Poisoning Cases

The Threat Was Already Badged In: Insider Lessons From Two Lab Poisoning Cases

A Wyoming grad student is accused of poisoning an officemate, and the internet already called it espionage. The charge says assault. What the court record actually shows, and the access, procurement, and reporting controls that would have caught it sooner.

Rakazo v0.3.3: What's New in the Self-Hosted Grok Bot Alternative

Rakazo v0.3.3: What's New in the Self-Hosted Grok Bot Alternative

Rakazo, the open source, self-hostable AI agent platform, shipped v0.3.3 on October 22. A small release: delete chats on mobile, Telegram replies with images and files, and a handful of fixes.

PHP CVE-2026-115560: Disable Session Upload Progress Until the Next Release

PHP CVE-2026-115560: Disable Session Upload Progress Until the Next Release

PHP.net recommends setting session.upload_progress.enabled=0 to block an unlikely RCE vector, CVE-2026-115560. No patch yet; the fix comes in the next regular release. Only apps that switch serialize_handler to php at runtime are exposed.

Quad9 Leaves France: When a DNS Resolver Becomes a Censorship Tool

Quad9 Leaves France: When a DNS Resolver Becomes a Censorship Tool

A Paris court ordered Quad9 to block IPTV piracy domains for beIN. Rather than lie to its users or apply French law to the whole world, Quad9 will stop serving France on November 24. Why resolvers are the wrong place to fight piracy.

Unpatched KSMBD Bugs Hit Public Kernel Lists: What It Means for You

Unpatched KSMBD Bugs Hit Public Kernel Lists: What It Means for You

Trend Micro ZDI copied unpatched Linux kernel bug reports, including two CVSS 9.0 KSMBD flaws, to public mailing lists. Greg Kroah-Hartman objected. The exposure is narrow: only hosts running the in-kernel SMB server. Here is how to check.

DITO CME elects four new directors at annual stockholders' meeting

DITO CME elects four new directors at annual stockholders' meeting

DITO CME Holdings elected Oozi Cats, Xinxin Wang, Enrique Pampolina and Cenon Audencial Jr. to its board, as Eric Recto and Salvador Medialdea ended their terms.

TESDA's two-day cyber workshop is a start. Let's not call it a cyber skills push

TESDA's two-day cyber workshop is a start. Let's not call it a cyber skills push

A two-day workshop for TESDA's own ICT staff is a reasonable start, not a national cyber skills effort. Here is what would build real capability.

Signal Bug CVE-2026-113380 Could Keep Your Mic Live After You Hang Up

Signal Bug CVE-2026-113380 Could Keep Your Mic Live After You Hang Up

A RingRTC flaw rated CVSS 9.3 let a malicious Signal caller flood the call state machine so your hang-up never landed, keeping the mic and possibly the camera live. It was fixed in RingRTC 2.72.0 on September 4. Here is how to check your app.

The downfall of bgp.exchange: how a volunteer peering exchange lost its domain, mail and management plane in a day

The downfall of bgp.exchange: how a volunteer peering exchange lost its domain, mail and management plane in a day

In September 2026 a volunteer peering exchange lost its domain, mail and management plane in about a day. A timeline from public records.

Building a Private Network on Hetzner Cloud Behind Your Own Firewall

Building a Private Network on Hetzner Cloud Behind Your Own Firewall

Keep servers off the public internet: a Hetzner Cloud private network with one route, your own firewall as the gateway, and working configs for Ubuntu and Rocky Linux 8.

A Third of Philippine Businesses Now Use AI, but Only 17% Have a Plan to Scale It

A Third of Philippine Businesses Now Use AI, but Only 17% Have a Plan to Scale It

An AWS-commissioned study says 32% of Philippine businesses now use AI, up from 21% a year ago. But only 17% have a roadmap to scale it, and just 19% feel ready for agentic AI. Skills remain the biggest gap. Here are the numbers that matter.