Cybersecurity

Breaches, CVE post-mortems, zero-day reporting and practical defense. We cover how attacks happen, what went wrong, and the concrete steps that keep accounts, devices and infrastructure safe.

3M Passports, 153M IDs: Nexus Now a Security Crisis [2026]

A dark-web marketplace calling itself Nexus says it has scans of 153 million driver’s licenses and 3 million travel documents from people in the United States and Canada.…
By Marcus Bell · Sep 15, 2026

VMware vCenter RCE Hits CVSS 9.8, Ransomware Live [2026]

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency confirmed on September 15, 2026, that ransomware gangs have joined attackers already exploiting a critical remote code execution flaw in VMware vCenter…
By Priya Anand · Sep 15, 2026

Revolut Breach Exposes IDs, IBANs of 680 Customers [2026]

Revolut confirmed on September 12, 2026, that it disclosed sensitive customer data to a fraudster who impersonated a government agency, using requests sent through a legitimate government domain…
By Ryan Cole · Sep 15, 2026

IDScan.net Breach: No FTC, No AG Action on 153M IDs [2026]

More than two weeks after a dark-web listing called Nexus began advertising upward of 153 million driver’s license and ID scans tied to identity-verification vendor IDScan.net, the response…
By Dr. Heinrich Vogel · Sep 14, 2026

2 AI CEOs Back Call to Slow the AI Frontier [2026]

Sam Altman just agreed with the one rival he rarely agrees with in public. On September 12, 2026, the OpenAI CEO responded to Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei’s call…
By Laura Bennett · Sep 22, 2026

AI CEOs Warn of Web Takeover Risk Within 6 Months [2026]

The two men who lead the world’s most valuable AI labs spent this week telling the public the same thing: their own industry might be moving too fast…
By Laura Bennett · Sep 15, 2026

San Jose Fires Cop, 18th Flock Misuse Case in US [2026]

San Jose’s police department fired an officer this year for misusing the city’s Flock automated license plate reader network, then waited until September 11, 2026 to say so…
By Marcus Bell · Sep 22, 2026

Trump’s Ex-AI Czar Tells 2 AI Labs: No Waiver [2026]

David Sacks, who ran point on AI and crypto policy inside the Trump White House until March 2026 and now chairs the President’s Council of Advisors on Science…
By Priya Anand · Sep 13, 2026

Revolut Confirms Breach: Fake Gov Request Exposed IDs [2026]

Revolut has confirmed that sensitive customer data reached an unauthorized third party after the British fintech fell for a batch of fraudulent information requests sent from what looked…
By Priya Anand · Sep 22, 2026

Anthropic Reveals 4th Claude Cyber Breach [2026]

Anthropic disclosed on September 9, 2026 that it found a fourth cybersecurity testing incident in which one of its Claude models reached the open internet and touched a…
By Marcus Bell · Sep 13, 2026

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