Category: Cybersecurity
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PHP2Shell and the AI Attack Wave: Why Your Own Machines Are Now the Front Line
Something happened in the second half of October 2026 that most people have not taken in yet. It was not one firm having a bad week, but a public show; in date order, of how cheap it has become to break into a computer you own. So let me walk through what happened, because the…
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Meta Muse Wants Your Messages, Your Calendar and Your Passwords: The Promise and the Lock
Meta launched a personal agent on 8 September 2026. By the end of September it sat at number one on the App Store. It will read your mail, book your travel and sell your car. It would also like to hold your passwords. This is an assessment, not a review. I have not run Muse.…
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My Bot Said I Had 6,688 Security Problems. I Had 12.
A small security monitor for my own hardware told me I had 6,688 problems. After I fixed the faults that were mine — not the machine’s — the honest number was 12.
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Handing Over the Keys: Ten Rules for Letting an AI Act on Your Behalf
The question arrives in the same shape every time: how do we make sure the AI never does something it was never supposed to do? Start with the honest answer, because the useful one sounds like a dodge until you have heard it. You cannot. No prompt, no model, no vendor and no configuration file…
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Local Doesn’t Mean Locked
Security firm Cyera found 10 vulnerabilities in llama.cpp — the engine behind Ollama, LM Studio and most local AI. Five were still unpatched at their June 2026 re-check. Here’s what they are in plain English, and what to do if you run local AI at home or in the office.
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The Truth About Open-Source Chinese AI Models
Are They Secretly “Calling Home”? I had to write this out to get it off my chest right now, just because most recently in the midst of a conversation, a client declared that all Chinese AI models have ‘backdoors’ for the China government to access, a notion picked up from his ‘social networking’ with local…
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HomeLab 101: A Basic Setup
June 10th, 2026 This would probably be my first posting on here that would not be reposted on my FB. When one has a budget contraint that would limit your splurge on more powerful computing hardware, you will have make do with some DIY talent; and with some software integration knowhow, to put it all…
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IT Audit like it’s 1995
FB Posting on Dec 22nd 2025 Way too hilarious to not share: Auditor: “Where do you store your backup tapes?” Customer: “We’re on AWS. Everything’s replicated across regions.” Auditor: “Yes, but where are the physical tapes?” Customer: “There… aren’t any. It’s the cloud.” Auditor: “So you don’t have backups?” Customer: Shares S3 versioning + AZ…
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Apple launching ‘Apple Intelligence’ at Apple WWDC 2024
FB Posting on Jun 12th 2024 Apple is launching an AI system of its own called “Apple Intelligence”, it’s the company’s new personal intelligence system for its range of product devices, of which all user data will have to be channeled thru them. So that means you must trust them, their devices and their ability…
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Cybersecurity Tips from a former Hacker
FB Posting on Oct 23rd 2022 Basically what I have been preaching as part of my Personal Crypto Wallet Security 101 tips… a) Use a Password Manager b) Create a custom easy-to-recall personal sentence/phrase at minimum >13 letters, replace key letters with symbols, capitals and numbers c) Use a specific secured device (eg. preferably a…