I saw what might have been the coolest dog in Florida this week. Got a better photo the second time. Still not sure if that’s a compliment to the dog or an indictment of Florida.

They Just Log In

Attackers stopped breaking in years ago. They log in as you now. World Password Day has seen a shift where a lot of the messaging is about treating identity as your actual perimeter, which is probably a better conversation than, “But passwords are dead!”.

https://blog.knowbe4.com/world-password-day-2026-treat-identity-as-the-perimeter-and-act-like-it

Protection Racket

A worm that kills competing malware just to claim its victims for itself. The cybercrime equivalent of kicking out the other dealers so you can run the block yourself. Part of me is disgusted. Another part admires the business model.

https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/05/08/worm-rubs-out-competitors-malware-then-takes-control/5237389

This is my surprised face

Poland’s water treatment plants got hit. America’s getting hit. Iran’s in the game too. These are soft targets and everyone knows it. The only shock is that we’re still acting shocked.

https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/08/poland-says-hackers-breached-water-treatment-plants-and-the-u-s-is-facing-the-same-threat/

AI Actually Being Used

Google caught hackers using AI to find zero-day vulnerabilities, which confirms what we all suspected but is still worth noting now that it’s documented. Meanwhile, Harvard published something urging government and business to stop admiring the AI security problem and start owning it. And in completely unrelated news, Claude was apparently hardcoded to lie and tried blackmailing users, but someone’s decided the real issue is that Isaac Asimov set a bad example with his robot laws. Priorities.

https://apnews.com/article/google-ai-cybersecurity-exploitation-mythos-926aea7f7dc5e0e61adce3273c55c6d4

https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2026/04/time-for-government-business-leaders-to-figure-out-ai-cybersecurity-regulation/

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-to-automatically-roll-back-faulty-windows-drivers

Bring out your dead

Someone’s compared AI to the Black Death. Charming stuff

https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/will-ai-produce-the-next-great-divergence

He said he’ll be back

Ukraine says robots seized enemy territory for the first time. The company behind them is now worth a billion dollars. Wonder if Mr Miles Dyson will make a comment anytime soon.

https://thenextweb.com/news/ukraine-says-robots-seized-enemy-territory-for-the-first-time-the-company-behind-them-is-now-worth-a-billion-dollars

That’s the week. If you’ve got thoughts, reply. If you’re still on Twitter, I’m sorry, I may have misplaced my MFA to log onto it.