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Phillip de Wet

Phillip de Wet

Phillip de Wet started in journalism as an honest B2B IT-sector reporter before straying into business, politics, and international affairs. He is currently in recovery, studying AI while writing about everything from hardware to infosec policy.

AWS suffers routing failure just after Azure's rather similar trouble

Both kept cloud regions running internally – but users couldn't reach them.

Redis ships seven security releases after "27 minute" Kimi PoC

Public PoCs target stock Redis releases, including the newly patched 8.8.1. The authors say China’s Kimi K3 found 19 zero-days and built one exploit in 27 minutes.

OpenAI knew sandboxing advanced AI models was tricky. It overlooked a key detail

An "overzealous" model could break out of a sandbox, said a member of its technical staff, weeks before Hugging Face was attacked by a "hyperfocused" pack.

You had six days to patch the latest SharePoint flaw before attackers moved in

CVE-2026-50522 went from patch to known exploitation with long-term consequences in days, as patch volumes continue to swell.

Microsoft finally kills off the automated email account that haunted admins

In Microsoft Forms, at least, the spammy-looking but critical address is getting a grown-up replacement.

Gold Eagle: White House announces new vuln system… a lot like the old one

So far, the Gold Eagle vulnerability clearing house seems to be CISA with some extra bits.

Google own-goaled its zone-resilient VMware clusters across three regions — and took 12 hours to recover

Google sells stretched private clouds as protection against a complete failure of any one zone. But it messed up the network config.

Apple fails to stem data exfiltration, as OpenAI poaches hundreds

Apple's lawsuit describes a campaign of theft – and also a failure of basic security, such as managing company laptops and spotting sensitive documents being emailed.

"MacInternals:" With help from AI, the Process Explorer dev tool is coming to Apple "in a few weeks"

Last week, Sysinternals creator Mark Russinovich started experimenting with agentic coding. Now Process Explorer for Mac will be available within weeks, he tells us.

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