Tag: Open Source
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Hardware Wallet Recovery Mistakes in 2026
The hardware wallet recovery mistake has become the loss the crypto holder has been quietly making, the loss the holder discovers the moment the holder tries to recover the wallet, the loss the recovery seed the holder thought was safe will not undo.
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The Honest State of Open Source Security in 2026
Open source security in 2026 has matured, with the SCA tools, the SBOM standards, the SLSA framework, the supply chain attestation, the package signing, the major platform support. The state of the open source security in 2026 amounts to the state of a market that has the tooling, the standards, the platform support, the adoption…
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Open Source Is Holding Up the Internet, and Most Companies Don’t Even Know It
The internet runs on open source. Not metaphorically, literally. The TLS that secures your bank’s website, the kernel that runs most of the cloud, the package manager that built the app on your phone.
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Small Business Actually Secure in 2026
Small business security in 2026 amounts to the security work the typical 10-50 person company has to do without the budget of the Fortune 500. The work is not impossible, the work runs as the work the security vendors do not sell to the small business, the work amounts to the work the small business…
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2026 Passkey Adoption: The Mid Year
Passkey adoption in 2026 has crossed 25% of the consumer facing applications, 15% of the enterprise applications, and 8% of the legacy applications, with the adoption rate accelerating as the implementation friction drops. The mid year 2026 state of passkey adoption amounts to the state of a technology that has stopped being the next big…
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The Data Your Browser Leaks Before You Click Anything
Before any JavaScript runs, before any consent banner, your browser is already giving the server enough information to identify you across visits. The cookie debate is over. The fingerprint debate is just starting.
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2026: The Mid Year Cybersecurity Review
Halfway through 2026, the threat landscape has done the usual thing of mutating faster than the people defending it expected. The first half gave us three patterns worth noticing: supply chain attacks still lead, identity attacks crossed a threshold, and AI became both a weapon and a target.
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Threat Hunting Without Budget in 2026
Threat hunting without a budget sounds like the impossible assignment, and it usually is. The teams that pull it off are not the ones that found a way to buy more tooling. They are the ones that figured out how to use what they already had, more carefully, with more discipline, with the hypothesis driven…
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The State of Open Source AI in Q2 2026
Open source AI in Q2 2026 has settled into a clear pattern, with Meta’s Llama family, Mistral’s models, the Chinese open weights (the Qwen, the DeepSeek, the Yi), and the smaller specialised models (the coding models, the embedding models, the vision models) all filling clear roles. The state of the open source AI in Q2…
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Password Reuse Is Still Winning in 2026
Password reuse is still winning in 2026. People reuse passwords. They reuse the same password across work and personal accounts. They reuse the same password across the work accounts of every job they have ever had. The advice to use unique passwords is good advice. The advice is not being followed. The attackers know.