WD My Book Live Mass Wipe: The EOL IoT Disaster
Tens of thousands of abandoned Western Digital NAS drives got factory-reset by strangers through a decade-old unpatched flaw. The definitive end-of-life IoT case study.
PrintNightmare: When the Patch Didn’t Fix Anything
A leaked PoC, a patch that didn't patch, and weeks of registry-hardening confusion — how CVE-2021-34527 turned Windows Print Spooler into a domain-takeover primitive.
Fastly CDN Outage 2021: One Config, 10% of the Web Down
No attack, no breach — a single customer config met a dormant software bug and took Reddit, the Guardian, and roughly a tenth of the internet offline for an hour. The concentration-risk wake-up call.
EA Source Code Theft: A $10 Cookie That Beat MFA
780 GB of Frostbite engine and FIFA code left EA through a purchased Slack cookie and one help-desk MFA reset. The breach that proved sessions, not passwords, are the modern front door.