Security Operations
Detection, incident response, forensics and the tooling behind them.
Oracle Lays Off 21,000 as AI Takes Over — SEC Filing Confirms
Oracle laid off 21,000 employees over the past year — not as a result of failing sales or leadership shake-ups, but because AI systems began handling the very tasks those people once performed. A new Securities and Exchange Commission filing, filed Monday, finally spells out how the company’s embrace of artificial intelligence reshaped its workforce at scale. Here's what we know about how a security & compliance leader ended up rewriting job descriptions one redundancy at a time.
Bending Spoons: The Secret Giant Serving Over a Billion People — and Why You’ve Never Heard of It
How a bootstrapped Milan firm, unknown outside tech circles, built a $25B AI-powered conglomerate that quietly owns AOL, Vimeo, Eventbrite—and everything in between.
AI Hallucinations as a Vector for Domain Hijacking Attacks
Why a security & compliance analyst must audit Large Language Model outputs to prevent attackers from registering hallucinated domains for hijacking.
NAIC Clarifies: ShinyHunters' PeopleSoft Breach Exposed Only Public Regulatory Data
The National Association of Insurance Commissioners says the ShinyHunters extortion group's PeopleSoft zero-day breach stole only publicly available statutory filings, outdated logs, and configuration files — directly disputing hacker claims of compromised critical regulatory platforms like SERFF and OPTins.
Progress Software Is Emailing ShareFile Customers to Shut Down Storage Zone Controllers — Here's What We Know
Progress Software has confirmed that a high-severity zero-day path traversal vulnerability is behind the emergency shutdown of ShareFile Storage Zone Controllers, and has released security updates (versions 5.12.5 and 6.0.2) to patch the flaw affecting all 5.x and 6.x versions.
After AI Promise, Capita’s Civil Service Pensions Scheme Leaves Retirees Struggling
After Capita's CEO promised the UK would preside over a flagship AI-enabled pension scheme, retired civil servants face months-long delays and anxiety — as 16 of 21 performance targets continue to fail.
How Beacon Software Is Using AI to Turn Niche Software Firms Into a $1.4B Empire
Toronto-based Beacon Software is pioneering a venture-backed twist on the private-equity roll-up by buying profitable niche software companies and equipping them with an AI operating stack — a long-hold play that flips the traditional exit playbook entirely.
The Tenor API Sunset: A Cloud Security Incident Response Case Study
Google's shutdown of the Tenor GIF API exposes critical supply chain risks for platforms. A security & compliance analyst examines what this incident reveals about vendor dependency, data portability, and incident response planning for third-party API dependencies.
AI Slop Has Landed
A study by Pangram reveals that 25% of long-form social media posts (over 250 words) are fully AI-generated, with LinkedIn leading at 41%. The findings come from analysis of over one million posts across platforms using Pangram's Chrome extension, highlighting the prevalence of AI-generated 'slop' content.
The LCP Trap: Why Your Optimization Efforts Miss the Real Largest Contentful Paint
John Mueller highlights a case study showing how carousel-heavy layouts trick browsers into measuring the wrong element—causing image compression and server optimizations to fail. Learn why fixing LCP starts with verifying what the browser actually measures.
The Grief Cycle of AI Disruption and What It Means for Your Cloud Security Incident Response Playbook
Fear and grief are natural reactions to machines that do your job. But the next phase — acceptance, then innovation — is where security and engineering teams actually survive the AI revolution.
Of 10 Published Pieces, How Many Actually Show Up in AI Answers?
Most SEO teams can confirm whether their content ranks. Far fewer can answer the question that matters now: of the 10 pieces published last month, how many were indexed by AI models, how many earned citations across ChatGPT, Perplexity, and the other engines — and what fraction of those citations survived a single model update?