{"title":"Spoiledlunch","description":"Nerdy Stuff. Tech Talk. Zero Freshness.","subtitle":"Analysis and commentary on GRC, security, and AI.","articles":[{"title":"Risk Registers Become Graveyards for Unowned Problems","url":"/articles/2026-05-01-why-risk-registers-become-graveyards-for-unowned-problems/","date":"2026-07-28","summary":"Most risk registers start as decision tools and end as storage.\nThat is the failure.\nIn theory, the register is where an organization records meaningful risks, assigns ownership, …"},{"title":"Why Retrieval Quality Is Becoming a Governance Problem","url":"/articles/2026-05-01-why-retrieval-quality-is-becoming-a-governance-problem/","date":"2026-07-21","summary":"Retrieval quality is often discussed like a tuning problem.\nImprove chunking. Improve ranking. Improve metadata. Improve the prompts wrapped around the retrieved context. All of …"},{"title":"World Emoji Day: Pure Manufactured Awareness Theater","url":"/articles/2026-07-17-world-emoji-day-the-purest-form-of-manufactured-awareness-theater/","date":"2026-07-17","summary":"Today is World Emoji Day, which means it\u0026rsquo;s time to celebrate\u0026hellip; what exactly? Unicode standardization? Digital communication evolution? The commodification of human …"},{"title":"Internal PKI Problems Keep Becoming Outage Risks","url":"/articles/2026-05-01-why-internal-pki-problems-keep-quietly-becoming-outage-risks/","date":"2026-07-14","summary":"Internal PKI has a special talent for being treated as somebody else\u0026rsquo;s plumbing right up until it breaks something important.\nThen everyone remembers, very suddenly, that …"},{"title":"The Problem With Single Pane of Glass Security","url":"/articles/2026-07-08-the-problem-with-single-pane-of-glass-security-platforms/","date":"2026-07-08","summary":"Every generation of security platform marketing rediscovers the same pitch: too many tools, too much context switching, analysts drowning in disconnected consoles. The solution is …"},{"title":"Asset Inventory Is Still an Embarrassing Problem","url":"/articles/2026-05-01-why-asset-inventory-is-still-the-most-embarrassing-security-problem-in-large-organizations/","date":"2026-07-07","summary":"For an industry that loves the word visibility, security remains remarkably bad at answering the oldest infrastructure question in the room: what do we actually have?\nThat should …"},{"title":"Global Information Security Day: A Vendor-Made Holiday","url":"/articles/2026-06-30-global-information-security-day-how-the-security-industry-invented-a-holiday-for-itself/","date":"2026-06-30","summary":"Today is Global Information Security Day, an awareness holiday you\u0026rsquo;ve probably never heard of despite eleven years of \u0026ldquo;global\u0026rdquo; celebration. That\u0026rsquo;s because …"},{"title":"AI Usage Discovery Is the New Shadow IT Problem","url":"/articles/2026-05-01-why-ai-usage-discovery-is-becoming-the-new-shadow-it-problem/","date":"2026-06-30","summary":"For years, shadow IT meant unsanctioned SaaS, unmanaged devices, and business teams adopting systems faster than central governance could track them.\nNow the same pattern is …"},{"title":"AI Incident Response Is Underbuilt Almost Everywhere","url":"/articles/2026-05-01-why-ai-incident-response-is-still-underbuilt-almost-everywhere/","date":"2026-06-23","summary":"Most organizations now have some language about responsible AI.\nFar fewer have a credible answer to a simpler question: what happens when an AI system causes a production problem …"},{"title":"The SIEM Did Not Fail; Your Data Model Did","url":"/articles/2026-05-01-the-siem-did-not-fail-your-data-model-did/","date":"2026-06-16","summary":"Security teams love to declare that the SIEM failed them. It is a clean story. The platform was noisy, expensive, slow, or hard to operate. Leadership understands vendor …"}],"news":[{"title":"ABB KNX Update Tool","url":"/news/2026-07-28-abb-knx-update-tool/","date":"2026-07-28","summary":"Summary: View CSAF Summary ABB has been contacted by a researcher who identified a vulnerability in one of its products.\nWhy it matters: This matters if it …"},{"title":"CI Fortify – Advice for isolating vital systems","url":"/news/2026-07-28-ci-fortify-advice-for-isolating-vital-systems/","date":"2026-07-28","summary":"Summary: CI Fortify – Advice for isolating vital systemsCISA and the Australian Signals Directorate’s Australian Cyber Security Centre (ASD’s ACSC), in …"},{"title":"CISA Joins Australia and Others to Publish Guidance to Isolate Operational Technology and Enabling Systems in ...","url":"/news/2026-07-28-cisa-joins-australia-and-others-to-publish-guidance-to-isolate-operational-technology-and-enabling-systems-in/","date":"2026-07-28","summary":"Summary: CISA Joins Australia and Others to Publish Guidance to Isolate Operational Technology and Enabling Systems in \u0026hellip;\nWhy it matters: This matters if …"},{"title":"igloohome Smart Lock Mobile Application","url":"/news/2026-07-28-igloohome-smart-lock-mobile-application/","date":"2026-07-28","summary":"Summary: View CSAF Summary Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an unauthorized actor to access functions or backend services.\nWhy it …"},{"title":"MikroTik RouterOS and Cloud Hosted Router","url":"/news/2026-07-28-mikrotik-routeros-and-cloud-hosted-router/","date":"2026-07-28","summary":"Summary: View CSAF Summary Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow attackers to rapidly guess passwords and gain unauthorized system access. …"},{"title":"Siemens Desigo CC","url":"/news/2026-07-28-siemens-desigo-cc/","date":"2026-07-28","summary":"Summary: View CSAF Summary OpenSSL has published a stack based buffer overflow vulnerability that allows a remote attacker to cause a denial of service (DoS) or …"},{"title":"Siemens Mendix Runtime","url":"/news/2026-07-28-siemens-mendix-runtime/","date":"2026-07-28","summary":"Summary: View CSAF Summary Mendix documentation for access rules does not adequately describe the special behavior of the System.User entity, leaving developers …"},{"title":"Siemens SIMATIC S7-PLCSIM Advanced","url":"/news/2026-07-28-siemens-simatic-s7-plcsim-advanced/","date":"2026-07-28","summary":"Summary: View CSAF Summary SIMATIC S7-PLCSIM Advanced contains a vulnerability that could allow an attacker to cause a denial of service condition.\nWhy it …"},{"title":"Small Business Forum's Report to Congress Highlights Recommendations to Improve Capital-Raising Policy","url":"/news/2026-07-27-small-business-forum-s-report-to-congress-highlights-recommendations-to-improve-capital-raising-policy/","date":"2026-07-27","summary":"Summary: The Securities and Exchange Commission released a report to Congress today highlighting policy recommendations from the SEC’s 45th Annual …"},{"title":"CISA Adds Two Known Exploited Vulnerabilities to Catalog","url":"/news/2026-07-27-cisa-adds-two-known-exploited-vulnerabilities-to-catalog/","date":"2026-07-27","summary":"Summary: CISA has added two new vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) Catalog, based on evidence of active exploitation.\nWhy it matters: …"}]}