Information security is the practice of protecting systems, data, and users from compromise and loss. Articles in this category cover threat models, social engineering, authentication, compliance considerations, and the operational habits that keep an organization defensible at scale.
WordPress secrets have historically lived in places that any security review would flag: the WordPress options table, plugin-specific tables, individual user meta…
In mid-July 2026, Hugging Face reported that an autonomous AI agent had broken into part of its production infrastructure. A few days…
Passkeys are the post-password authentication credential. They replace both the traditional password and the additional MFA code that authenticator apps produce, with…
The question that comes up almost every time someone configures their first authenticator app is the right question to start this post…
The Global Device Identifier, or GDID, is a hidden identifier that Microsoft assigns to a Windows device. It is not a hardware…
A WordPress backup is one of the largest exfiltration targets on any site. A full backup contains the database (which holds user…
Pantheon Secrets is the credential-management feature that Pantheon-hosted WordPress sites use to store API keys, OAuth tokens, database credentials, encryption keys, and…
OpenAI released the full version of GPT-5.5-Cyber today, June 22, 2026, completing the rollout of a cybersecurity-focused frontier model that had been…
Identity and access management (IAM) is the discipline of verifying who users are and controlling what they can do across the systems…
OpenAI Daybreak is the cybersecurity platform OpenAI announced on May 11, 2026, designed to find software vulnerabilities and validate patches inside customer…