State of (in)security - Week 11, 2026

During the week of March 9–16, 2026, the cybersecurity landscape saw 22 advisories and 16 incidents including ransomware, data breaches, and actively exploited vulnerabilities in products like SolarWinds, Ivanti, and Salesforce. Over 3.3 million individuals impacted, largely by a single Cal AI breach exposing 3 million records. Malware/ransomware and software vulnerability exploits were the leading causes, hitting sectors from healthcare and finance to consulting and food & beverage.

**If you use AI platforms and chatbots, remember that they are just web applications and have a bunch of other possible flaws. Make sure databases, API endpoints, and system prompts are locked down with proper authentication, access controls, and integrity monitoring, not left exposed as an afterthought. Regularly audit your AI infrastructure for basic web application flaws like exposed APIs, SQL injection, and missing authentication, because even the most advanced AI tools can be undone by classic, well-known security mistakes.**
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📋 Lab Report #20260315 is LIVE!

Our lab tested 20 trending products this week. Top performer: Lenovo Smart Glasses Remote Control Touch Photo Camera Recording Translator Voice Assist

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State of (in)security - Week 10, 2026

During the week of March 2–9, 2026, there were 15 vulnerability advisories (including 5 actively exploited flaws in products like VMware, Cisco, and WordPress) and 17 incidents led by the LexisNexis AWS cloud breach (400K individuals affected), an FBI surveillance systems breach. Multiple ransomware attacks hitt government, healthcare, and education sectors.

**Update your Comet browser, or even better, wipe it from your system. It's too dangerous. Treat AI agents as untrusted insiders and manually restrict their access to sensitive websites or local files. Always enable 'ask before filling' in your password manager to prevent agents from accessing credentials without your explicit consent. Treat AI documentation feeds as executable code and never assume a tool is safe just because it has high GitHub stars. Limit your AI assistant's file system permissions and verify the source of all instructions delivered through MCP servers.**
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📋 Lab Report #20260308 is LIVE!

Our lab tested 20 trending products this week. Top performer: NEW Wireless CarPlay Android Auto Wireless Adapter Smart Mini Box Plug and play Connect

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State of (in)security - Week 9, 2026

During the week of Feb 23–Mar 2, 2026, there were 21 vulnerability advisories and 15 data breach/ransomware incidents, heavily concentrated in healthcare impacting over 53 million individuals, highlighted by the ManoMano breach (38M records) and a billion-record exposure from a system misconfiguration.

**Treat AI tool configuration files with the same suspicion as executable binaries. Treat local AI agents as high-privilege and very dangerous Be aware that most AI tools are half-baked extremely vulnerable products that developers didn't design or test properly and push the security problem on the user. Ideally, don't use them. If you do use them, DO NOT TRUST THEM. Isolate them on a separate computer, severely limit their access and granted abilities.**
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📋 Lab Report #20260301 is LIVE!

Our lab tested 20 trending products this week. Top performer: Custom Cartoon Baby Name Stamp Kit - Reusable for Cotton/Modal Clothes & School Bags, No

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State of (in)security - Week 8, 2026

During the week of Feb. 16–23, 2026, cybersecurity activity included 11 vulnerability advisories (including critical flaws in Honeywell, Chrome, WordPress plugins, and industrial IoT devices, plus an actively exploited Dell zero-day) and 19 incidents, primarily data breaches and ransomware attacks across healthcare, retail, and hospitality impacting over 1.2 million individuals.

**=As usual, vibe coded and AI applications are dangerous. They are rushed, not tested properly and always in a state of Minimal Viable Product. If possible, AVOID THEM LIKE THE PLAGUE THAT THEY ARE. If you do use OpenClaw, upgrade to version 2026.2.14 or later ASAP. If you can't upgrade right away, make sure OpenClaw is not exposed to any untrusted networks and disable any extensions you're not actively using.**
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📋 Lab Report #20260222 is LIVE!

Our lab tested 20 trending products this week. Top performer: Portable Egg Opening Machine Quick Egg Beater Kitchen Egg Sheller at 50% OFF. Full analy

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State of (in)security - Week 7, 2026

During the week of Feb. 9–16, 2026, 19 vulnerability advisories and 16 incidents were recorded. Critical patches were released by major vendors including Microsoft, Apple, Adobe, Fortinet, and Ivanti, several are actively exploited. Data breaches and ransomware attacks hit healthcare, government, and tech sectors and impacted over 50.8 million individuals. The largest exposure was caused from a Firebase misconfiguration in the Codeway AI Chat App leaking 300 million messages.

**Disable AI extensions that have local system access if they also read data from public sources like calendars or email. You should never allow an autonomous agent to bridge untrusted external content directly to your operating system's command line. Treat AI agents as privileged entities and implement monitoring to detect unauthorized command execution.
When developing a product, always make sure to patch your own product instances. Because you are just as exposed, and you don't have a lot of reasonable arguments not to patch.**
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📋 Lab Report #20260215 is LIVE!

Our lab tested 20 trending products this week. Top performer: 6 IN 1 Car Transformation Combined Robot Action Figure Tank Truck Deformation Constructo

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