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Cyber Threat Intel 6 min

What Threat Intelligence Actually Is

380,235 vulnerabilities have been published. 1,670 are confirmed to be exploited in the wild — about one in 228. Telling...

Priya Nair

Pub. 19 Aug

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Cybersecurity 6 min

Many Security Policies Permit the Attacks They Are Meant to Block

Eighteen ASEAN banks, government portals and telcos send a mean of 3.7 of 5 browser-protection headers, which is better...

Kenji Tanaka

Pub. 19 Aug

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Cybersecurity 6 min

Signed Is Not the Same as Traceable

Every package npm serves carries a registry signature, so 100% of our dependencies look verified. Only 10.8% of the ones...

Priya Nair

Pub. 19 Aug

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Developer Tools 6 min

Your Bank Is Still on IPv4

We asked DNS whether 18 institutions across six ASEAN economies — the largest bank, the government portal and the bigges...

Maya Lin

Pub. 19 Aug

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Cybersecurity 6 min

Most of an AI Attack Is an Ordinary Attack

MITRE's AI threat matrix, ATLAS, shares 13 of its 16 tactics with classical ATT&CK. Only two are genuinely new — and jus...

Priya Nair

Pub. 19 Aug

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Cybersecurity 6 min

What Shor's Algorithm Actually Breaks

Shor's method is ordinary arithmetic with one quantum step inside it. We ran the classical part exhaustively over sixtee...

Kenji Tanaka

Pub. 18 Aug

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AI & ML 7 min

What a Tool Listing Cannot Tell You About AI Risk

We set the ten OWASP LLM risk categories against what our directory of 1,366 AI tools actually records. Four have a fiel...

Priya Nair

Pub. 16 Aug

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Cybersecurity 7 min

How Big Are Post-Quantum Encryption Keys?

We measured two live handshakes to our own site. Hybrid post-quantum key exchange adds 1,178 bytes to the ClientHello —...

Kenji Tanaka

Pub. 16 Aug

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Cybersecurity 9 min

How Much of ISO 27001 Can You Actually Automate?

ISO/IEC 27001:2022 has 93 Annex A controls. Our 27 automated compliance checks cover 18 of them — not quite a fifth — an...

Kenji Tanaka

Pub. 15 Aug

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Cybersecurity 10 min

What Our Own Security Audit Found

Nine parallel red-team reviews of our own admin panel produced twelve security findings. Eleven are closed, including al...

Cyber Team

Pub. 14 Aug

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Cybersecurity 7 min

How to Check Who Owns the Lookalikes of Your Domain

Five edit rules per character generate the confusable space around a domain name, and DNS says which of those names alre...

Cyber Team

Pub. 14 Aug

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Cybersecurity 6 min

The Post-Quantum Migration Already Started, and Nobody Told You

Quantum computing and encryption is usually framed as a countdown. For the connections you actually use, the migration h...

Cyber Team

Pub. 12 Aug

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