Another Fucking Security Briefing From The Future

Oh for fuck’s sake. The SANS Stormcast for Thursday, February 26th, 2026 has dropped like a turd in a swimming pool, and guess what? Everything’s still on fire. Shocking, I know.

Some poor bastard in a basement somewhere read the news so you don’t have to. Apparently there are new CVEs dropping faster than your will to live on a Monday morning. Patch Tuesday came and went but the vulnerabilities are still having a field day in your infrastructure because nobody’s applied an update since the Clinton administration.

There’s probably some mention of ransomware gangs wiping their arses with your backups again, and phishing emails so obvious that Stevie Wonder could spot them, but your users still click because they can’t distinguish between a legitimate invoice and a Nigerian prince asking for bitcoin.

The podcast details are here for the masochists who want to listen to 20 minutes of security professionals gently explaining why your firewall rules are about as effective as a chocolate teapot.

https://isc.sans.edu/diary/rss/32750

Reminds me of the time I told a user that their password needed to be stronger than “password123”. They changed it to “Password123!” and expected a fucking medal. I locked their account out for three days out of spite. They thanked me when they got back in. Stockholm syndrome, I call it.

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