Stolen login data has become a commodity so abundant that it’s now cheap to buy in bulk — and alarmingly effective when attackers use it to pivot into corporate environments. In 2025, researchers reported roughly 2.86 billion compromised credentials traded across underground markets. That scale changes the calculus of identity: a correct username and password no longer prove much when
Author: Saugata Datta
I’m an IT/DevOps professional with many years of hands-on experience across Windows, Linux, Automation, Backup and Cloud. I love building real-world automations to make infrastructure reliable, secure, and self-healing. Through this blog, I share practical learnings from enterprise projects and my home-lab experiments on Cloudflare, Self-Hosting and everything in between. Always tinkering, always improving.
Google’s Quick Share Gains Tap-to-Share Mode with Pixel 11
Alongside the Pixel 11 announcement, Google has upgraded Quick Share with a tap-to-share mode that makes transferring contacts, photos, videos and other items between Android devices near-instant. The company describes the feature as an “instant, two-way exchange”: bring two compatible Android phones close together and the devices complete the transfer with a simple tap. The update is rolling out now
Attackers Exploit VMware vCenter Vulnerability to Gain Persistent Remote Access
A newly disclosed critical flaw in VMware vCenter (CVE-2026-59310) has moved quickly from patch release to active exploitation, according to investigative reporting and telemetry from security firms. The vulnerability—a directory traversal bug that allows an actor with network access to execute arbitrary code—was patched by Broadcom late last month, and forensic evidence collected by QUIRSO indicates attackers were able to
Ransomware Strikes Colombian Justice Ministry Ahead of Presidential Transition
Colombia’s Ministry of Justice was hit by a ransomware attack on August 2, affecting parts of its IT infrastructure and degrading several public-facing services just days before a national presidential handover. The disruption touched systems used for illicit-drug monitoring and legal processes; while some files were encrypted, the acting minister at the time, Cielo Rusinque, said publicly that there was
Microsoft Confirms July Windows Update Is Causing Some Dell Laptops to Shut Down and Overheat
Microsoft has acknowledged that a recent Windows 11 preview update has caused a limited number of Dell laptops to experience unexpected shutdowns, higher operating temperatures, rapid battery drain, and reduced performance. The issue was first flagged during Dell’s internal testing and later confirmed by Microsoft on July 14, 2026. A specific Intel driver interacting with a newly introduced Windows USB-C
CISA Flags Actively Exploited Adobe ColdFusion Path Traversal (CVE-2026-48282)
Adobe ColdFusion administrators woke up to an urgent warning this week: a critical path traversal vulnerability (CVE-2026-48282) is being actively exploited in the wild. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added the flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog on July 7, 2026, and issued a binding remediation timeline for federal agencies under BOD 26-04 that requires