Today in Privacy — Sep 16
Posted by PrivacyWire
- Mythos has made 2026 patching hell. It might make 2027 a breeze — Gartner sees huge amounts of technical debt paid down, and better scanning that could make software safer sooner — discuss · link - Cyber Op Targets South Korean Media & Automotive Sectors — A likely North Korean advanced persistent threat (APT) group used a previously undocumented Linux espionage toolkit to compromise load balancers, gain access… — discuss · link - CISA: Critical VMware RCE flaw now exploited by ransomware gangs — Ransomware groups now targeting the VMware vCenter flaw means unpatched virtualization infrastructure is a direct gateway to sensitive data and internal… — discuss · link - California: Tell the Governor to Stand Up for Net Neutrality, Affordability, and Public Safety — The federal government has inserted a provision into a funding deal with the state of California that would make the state abandon its gold standard net… — link Mythos, the VMware flaw, and the North Korean Linux toolkit all point to the same truth: unpatched infrastructure is the gateway for both espionage and ransomware, while California’s net neutrality fight shows the policy side of that exposure. The community has seen this pattern before, but the combination of 2026’s backlog and 2027’s promised relief makes the stakes feel different. What are you seeing on your own networks and in your own state right now?