Weekly Security Briefing

The signal, not the noise, in security.

News, vendor watch, and the open-source tools worth knowing about — plus a dedicated eye on cloud security and hardening. Curated for practitioners, not headline chasers.

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SecBlog Weekly — Issue 008

A BeyondTrust zero-day, a ConnectWise credential in 162 Microsoft 365 tenants, eight compromised CA keys, a backdoored OVHcloud CLI, and Rank Math, Docker, Ghostscript, Cairn and AdFection.

SecBlog Weekly — Issue 007

Microsoft's record Patch Tuesday, an Ivanti zero-day chain, SonicWall exploitation attempts, an IDCF Cloud ransomware outage, SAP's OAuth flaw, npm and certificate-trust hijack risks, an LMCache RCE, and a Ledger implant.

SecBlog Weekly — Issue 006

An FBI contractor's missed patch, 8.8 million Danish records exposed through a company account, Arizona's court breach, Atlassian and FortiBleed attacks, Warlock's SharePoint campaign, SWIFT middleware, and a LibreOffice flaw.

SecBlog Weekly — Issue 005

Citrix NetScaler zero-days under active exploitation, a Supabase misconfiguration exposing 16,000+ databases, an AI agent's destructive Azure attack, a malicious npm campaign, an MCP OAuth flaw, and a ShinyHunters arrest.

SecBlog Weekly — Issue 004

ShinyHunters claims it breached the FBI's jobs portal, a critical WordPress flaw was exploited within hours of its patch, Check Point's VPN gateways are under attack, and an OpenAI agent bypassed blocks on Australia's Medicare portal.

SecBlog Weekly — Issue 003

A root-RCE Cisco zero-day, an unconfirmed 7.5M-record utility breach claim, a GitLab flaw exploited within a day of patching, and the real cost of treating dev servers as safe.

SecBlog Weekly — Issue 002

Week of Sep 8, 2026 · secblog.reedcloudsec.com SecBlog Weekly Issue 002: Patch Now, Trust Nothing. Microsoft September 2026 Patch Tuesday fixes 966 flaws, 2 zero-days Microsoft's

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Cloud Security & Hardening

Misconfigurations, CSPM findings, IaC security, and hardening checklists — covered evenly across AWS, Azure, and GCP.

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Vendor Watch

Launches, acquisitions, funding, and notable threat research from prominent vendors — read with healthy skepticism of the hype.

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OSS & Tooling Spotlight

Smaller, often-overlooked open-source scanners and hardening scripts that don't get mainstream coverage.

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Deep Dives

Longer original analysis — a technique explained, a breach post-mortem, a tool walkthrough. Published monthly.

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