Security leader, risk professional, business enabler, lifelong learner. Also Bluesky @​japi​.bsky​.social

Finland
Joined December 2008
More interesting than a single #cybersecurity prediction document is the common ground across vendors and organizations. I collected 20+ 2026 cybersecurity predictions and analyzed them with #AI tools to identify shared themes. #infosec japiditto.blogspot.com/2025/…
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"United States #cybersecurity job postings, January to September 2026 Down 26.4% from 320,210 in the same months of 2025." cybersn.com/resources/report…
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The GRU hacked into Jared Kushner's iPhone. Dutch military intelligence (MIVD) then recruited a GRU spy who gave them access to the hacked phone. What MIVD discovered was that Kushner had access to two bank accounts --one Azerbaijani, the other Israeli --where Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and Emirati ruler Mohammed bin Zayed deposited money. It sounds like a slightly far-fetched episode of "Slow Horses," but it's real. And it proves just how eye-poppingly corrupt this administration was and continues to be as its "special envoy" decides the fate of tens of millions in Europe in the Middle East. Simply incredible reporting by Matthew Cole, drawn from his new book on Kushner. vanityfair.com/story/jared-k…
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Security called me at 6:12 AM today. "Patch every PHP server immediately." I asked what happened. "Two critical vulnerabilities. Remote code execution. No authentication required." Cool. How many PHP servers do we have? According to inventory: 12 According to reality: Nobody knows. We found one running WordPress. Three running old internal tools. One under someone's desk. Two inside vendor appliances. A forgotten employee directory from 2016. And a server named: PHP-OLD-DO-NOT-TOUCH Naturally, that one runs payroll exports. Then we found a PHP 5.6 box. I asked who owned it. The documentation said: BRIAN. Brian left in 2019. We called Brian. He said: "Oh wow, that's still running?" Excellent. By 8 AM, leadership joined the incident call. CEO: "Can hackers actually get in?" Security: "Potentially yes." CEO: "Without a password?" Security: "Yes." CEO: "Then why do WE need passwords?" Not the lesson. Finance asked if we could wait until the weekend to patch because downtime affects revenue. Security explained that the alternative was letting strangers execute code on our servers. Finance asked for a cost comparison. At 9:17, someone suggested temporarily taking the vulnerable websites offline. Marketing refused. "Our campaign is live." So for the next hour, the company officially decided maintaining a landing page for 20% off webinar registration was more important than preventing remote server takeover. We finally patched everything we could find. Then our scanner discovered another PHP server. Hostname: TEMP-PHP-2014 Uptime: 4,512 days. Nobody knows what it does. Nobody owns it. Nobody can shut it down. But every time we block network access, the warehouse stops printing shipping labels. Security has classified it as critical infrastructure. It is running PHP 5.4. The vulnerability has existed longer than half our employees. The emergency patch took four hours. Finding out what PHP actually runs took eleven. The internet isn't held together with code. It's held together with servers everyone is afraid to turn off.
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"Millions of hacking attempts follow disclosure of PHP vulnerabilities" reuters.com/world/asia-pacif… #cybersecurity
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"New code will ideally be run through #AI bug-checkers that will prevent new vulnerabilities from being introduced. The rate of new vulns should level off and drop accordingly." blog.talosintelligence.com/t… #cybersecurity #appsec
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"#AI agents powered by Claude, Grok, Kimi allegedly target 400 banks in Latin America" msn.com/en-in/money/general/… #cybersecurity
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Practical guidance on the adoption of #SBOM. enisa.europa.eu/publications…
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So basically, today PHP got two critical bugs that let anyone run code on your server without even logging in, which is bad, and then the details leaked before the patch was even out, which is worse, and it works on WordPress and MediaWiki and Magento and Joomla and Laravel, and Censys says like 1.5 million servers are running a version with no fix, so the NSA was like "take your system offline," and the FBI was like "take your system offline," and CISA and the UK and CERT-EU were all like "take your system offline," and then the Prime Minister of Japan, the actual Prime Minister, posted at 5:55 in the morning telling 48.8 million people to take their system offline, so everyone took their system offline, like the Dutch cybersecurity agency took its own website offline, and the Dutch parliament went offline, and the Port of Rotterdam went offline, and Finland and France and Denmark started pulling government sites, and Wikipedia went down, and Archive.org went down, and Asana and GOG and Something Awful went down, and the University of Vienna's webmail went down for some reason, and that's just PHP. Because GitLab also dropped a CVSS 10.0, which is the highest score they give out, for a bug that's been there since 2014, so that's every self-hosted GitLab for twelve years, and then LiteLLM 1.107.0 got hijacked and shipped a credential stealer and a remote access trojan in every single wheel and the Docker images, including latest, and you didn't even have to import it, just installing it was enough, and it's the second time this year, and then Railway paused every deployment on the entire platform because someone got into the environment variables, so now everyone has to rotate every secret they've ever stored there, and TiDB Cloud said someone was walking around inside with stolen credentials for basically a month and an extortion group says they took 10.6 terabytes, and Zeabur got breached for the second time in two months and is just shutting down, like the whole company, and Node.js patched remote code execution and a TLS bypass, and CISA says Plex is being actively exploited, and someone took over 300 Tor exit relays to steal SSH passwords, and SafePay ransomware has hit over 600 critical infrastructure orgs, and India's biggest bank filed a data loss incident, and Japan has been in an official state of emergency in cyberspace since October 9, which honestly explains the 5:55 AM post. Oh, and eMudhra, a certificate authority that's issued over 60 million certificates, whose entire job is proving websites are who they say they are, was supposed to be using private keys that are random numbers over a hundred digits long, and one of them was 4. Just 4. And the others were like 66 and 237. Anyway, it's Wednesday.
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"The security issue is the most severe that PHP, a technology that powers as much as 70% of the world’s websites, has faced in more than a decade." msn.com/en-us/news/news/ai-j… #AI #cybersecurity
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"Russia’s digital services are facing widespread outages after Ukrainian drone strikes knocked out three of the largest data centers owned by Russian tech giant Yandex within several days" arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026…
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"Decompiled, cloned, and modified software is going viral and might slopify everything." 404media.co/reverse-engineer…
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"In recent weeks, users of services like Meta’s Muse, xAI’s Grok, OpenAI’s Dots, and Instinct have reported blocks preventing their #AI agents from performing tasks across top websites." theverge.com/ai-artificial-i…
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These are not “misalignments”, but security breaches and potentially criminal acts. Any other business would face serious consequences and sanctions for similar failures. msn.com/en-us/news/other/ope… #AI #cybersecurity
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Becoming Quantum Safe (Jai Singh Arun et al.): "Building a quantum computer that could break moden cryptographic algorithms requires a high level of scalability, i.e. millions of qubits with low error rates and long coherence times." #book #quote
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"A string of artificial-intelligence safety incidents is exposing a gaping hole for the fast-growing industry: the lack of available #insurance." msn.com/en-us/technology/art… #AI
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"The Swedish edition of the athletic competition show The Challenge just faced a real challenge when an #AI agent deleted months of work editing the show just weeks before release." tomshardware.com/tech-indust…
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