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28 July 2026
Marketplace takedown pressure on vendor operations

Marketplace takedowns do more than pull a site offline, they cut through the vendor routines that keep sales moving. In dark web marketplaces, that means lost trust, broken escrow, and a hurried scramble to rebuild elsewhere, usually with the same habits that got noticed the first time.

28 July 2026
Brickstorm persistence in Microsoft 365

Brickstorm showed how Microsoft 365 persistence can survive a tidy password reset and a few blocked logins. I keep coming back to the same point, if...

27 July 2026
Restricting Serv-U access before patching

The SolarWinds Serv-U flaw is the sort of bug that turns a routine patch into an ugly afternoon, so I would block the obvious request pattern first...

27 July 2026
Weekly Tech Digest | 27 Jul 2026

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28 July 2026
Marketplace takedown pressure on vendor operations

Marketplace takedowns do more than pull a site offline, they cut through the vendor routines that keep sales moving. In dark web marketplaces, that means lost trust, broken escrow, and a hurried...

28 July 2026
Brickstorm persistence in Microsoft 365

Brickstorm showed how Microsoft 365 persistence can survive a tidy password reset and a few blocked logins. I keep coming back to the same point, if identity, VPN and odd little appliances all line up...

27 July 2026
Restricting Serv-U access before patching

The SolarWinds Serv-U flaw is the sort of bug that turns a routine patch into an ugly afternoon, so I would block the obvious request pattern first and keep exposure tight. If the service can be...

27 July 2026
Weekly Tech Digest | 27 Jul 2026

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27 July 2026
Polyfill supply-chain injection on trusted sites

Polyfill supply-chain injection is ugly because nothing on the page has to look broken for users to be nudged into typing a password they should never have seen asked for. I keep coming back to the...

26 July 2026
CVE-2026-3300 and WordPress admin account abuse

Everest Forms Pro CVE-2026-3300 is not a tidy bug, it is the sort of mess that turns form input into PHP and then acts surprised when attackers notice. I would not trust any site running the affected...

26 July 2026
Review CI/CD install scripts for malicious code

Install scripts are the bit people wave through until they bite; in CI/CD, that means code runs under a trusted name before anyone has looked properly. I pin versions, record what landed, and treat...

25 July 2026
Check npm and PyPI packages for compromise

A clean package yesterday means very little if a fresh update arrives with new maintainers, odd install scripts, or a version jump that does not make sense. I look for software supply chain trouble by...

25 July 2026
Missing checks in Cognito external IdP flows

AWS Cognito PreSignUp_ExternalProvider is the last sane place to stop a bad federated login before Cognito writes the user down. I have seen enough messy JIT provisioning to know that putting the...

24 July 2026
HTTP and FTP fetches via CFITSIO EFS

CFITSIO Extended Filename Syntax is not just a fancy path parser, it can turn a filename into a network request or a file copy before anyone checks the data. I have seen enough of that sort of trick...