Cloudflare’s outage root cause is well explained here:
Prince (CEO) explained that a feature file doubled in size. The larger-than-expected feature file was then propagated to all the machines that make up our network.”
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OWASP’s 2025 Wake-Up Call: Why Broken Access Control Still Haunts Web Security
November 18, 2025
OWASP’s 2025 findings show broken access control remains one of the most persistent and damaging web security problems.
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The Security Vulnerabilities to Watch For When You’re Vibe Coding:
This article discusses common security vulnerabilities developers should be aware of when “vibe coding”—coding quickly without strict adherence to best practices. @harryguinness.bsky.social
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Separating AI Hope from AI Hype:
If you believe the hype, AI will soon take all our jobs, or solve all our problems, or destroy all boundaries between reality and lies. This brilliant podcast by @randomwalker.bsky.social Arvind Narayanan will help sort that out.
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Why Good Security Fails: The Asymmetry of InfoSec Investment

A paradox of security is that when you have invested appropriately and have less incidents, someone will ask: “Why are we spending on security when we don’t have any issues?"
@philvenables.bsky.social

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The Art of Selling as an Engineer: What Does a Solutions Architect Do?
A great podcast to learn about what a “Solutions Architect” does and brings value! As always, a great podcast from Daliani Liu.
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What are AI Foundational Models?
The current wave in AI is replacing task-specific models with those that are trained on a broad set of unlabeled data that can be used for different tasks, with minimal fine-tuning.

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AI Tools Make development Slower for Senior Open-Source Developers: AI tools take 19% longer to complete tasks compared to those working without AI assistance. A lot of nuances to this very interesting study.
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Input Validation Vulnerabilities Dominate MITRE’s 2024 CWE Top 25 List
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A year after the CrowdStrike incident spawned BSODs across the world, in July, Microsoft will roll out its Windows endpoint security platform to allow Windows solutions to run outside the kernel, hopefully eliminating the chance of such an incident again.
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Finished reading a great book by Brook Shoenfield on "Threat Modeling" to secure systems early during the design phase and Shifting-Left on cybersecurity in the product lifecycle.
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How NAT works?

#Cybersecurity attack vectors.

Super creative!