The Most Important Person on My Flight Wasn’t on the Airplane
The Handoff I was alone in the cockpit, flying myself through a line of thunderstorms, when I realized I was trusting a complete stranger with something incredibly important. I’d never met them. I probably never will. Yet for the next twenty minutes, I trusted them completely. That realization changed the way I think about trust. […]
The Ransomware That Still Needed a Human
Every few months, cybersecurity gets a new “first.” The first AI worm. The first autonomous attack. The first fully AI-powered ransomware. Headlines move fast. Reality usually takes a little longer. That’s exactly what happened last week. Early reports suggested researchers had documented the first truly agentic ransomware—an AI system capable of compromising a network, moving […]
When the Classroom Gets Hacked: The ShinyHunters Canvas Breach
Finals week is already one of the most stressful times of the academic year. For millions of students in May 2026, it got significantly harder when a threat actor group called ShinyHunters compromised Instructure, the parent company behind Canvas. With 30 million active users and 8,000+ institutional customers, Canvas serves as a central hub for […]