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We’re watching something unfold across the country that feels eerily familiar: a gold‑rush infrastructure boom, sold as “innovation,” while the public quietly absorbs the cost. In the 19th century, it was railroads. Today, it’s AI data centers. Communities from Ohio to Arizona are being asked to tolerate massive energy complexes, diesel generators, and gas turbines placed next to schools and neighborhoods, all to power generative AI models that require staggering amounts of p

Every once in a while, the federal government releases a document that should dominate the national conversation. Last week was one of those moments. The Treasury’s FY 2025 consolidated financial statements quietly confirmed what economists Steve Hanke and former Comptroller General David Walker outlined in their recent Fortune commentary: by its own accounting, the United States is insolvent. Treasury reports roughly $6 trillion in assets against nearly $48 trillion in liabi

There is one message I keep drilling into every young CPA, analyst, and early‑career cyber professional I teach: you cannot operate in these fields today without a working understanding of geopolitics. Not casual awareness. Not headline level familiarity. I mean disciplined, ongoing tracking of how global tensions, sanctions, chokepoints, and state‑aligned actors shape the financial and technical systems you’re responsible for. If you ignore geopolitics, you’re already behind

The FCC’s decision to block approval of all new foreign‑made consumer routers, including Chinese‑made models, is now in effect. Reuters’ reporting (https://lnkd.in/epd2jX4M) makes the timing clear: the order was issued on March 23, 2026, and the prohibition applies immediately to any new router model seeking U.S. market entry. So, basically anyone who wants to go to the latest and greatest or upgrade. Without FCC authorization, these devices cannot be imported, marketed, or s

A story this consequential should be dominating national headlines, yet it’s barely registering. According to Politico, the FBI’s wiretap and surveillance systems may have been compromised through a commercial ISP vendor, triggering an emergency response from the White House, NSA, and CISA. The report is here: https://lnkd.in/eMUmHVAp. It’s a quiet admission of a structural failure that institutions have spent years pretending doesn’t exist. The breach didn’t require a zero‑d

Risk leaders still talk about cyber as if it lives inside a console. Dashboards, alerts, endpoint agents, clean, containable, and conveniently scoped. But 2026 keeps proving that the real attack surface is the entire system: geopolitics, energy, logistics, data integrity, and the global supply chains that quietly hold the enterprise together. The 2026 Cuban crisis is a perfect illustration. A fuel blockade triggered rolling blackouts, disrupted aviation, stalled maritime logi

We need to stop pretending cybersecurity and fraud are separate domains. They aren’t, not anymore. Fraud actors have adopted generative AI faster, more aggressively, and with fewer constraints than any enterprise security team. The result is a widening asymmetry: AI‑enabled fraud is now 18–24 months ahead of the average cybersecurity program, and the gap is accelerating. And here’s the part no one wants to admit: most enterprises are still in their infancy. They’re debating w

Companies are firing staff at a pace that should concern anyone paying attention, and the explanations coming from the C‑suite are getting thinner by the week. Executives keep pointing to AI as the reason for these cuts, but the data tells a different story. As CNBC recently reported, Block eliminated nearly 40% of its workforce, more than 4,000 people, while citing AI efficiencies that don’t yet exist at scale: https://lnkd.in/eSstYdzh (cnbc.com in Bing) Across the economy,

The war is forcing the market to confront something it has ignored: the real economy still governs the technology cycle. The analysis in https://lnkd.in/e84d9UYG shows how geopolitical instability is reshaping capital flows and investor psychology. And the macro‑thread at https://lnkd.in/exD49vQR captures the deeper truth: the AI boom has been behaving like a late‑stage dot‑com cycle, inflated by circular funding and a belief that compute demand could outrun geopolitics. NVID

For years, cyber leaders have warned that the next major shift in global risk wouldn’t come from a new strain of ransomware or a novel exploit. It would come from the quiet erosion of trust in the systems that keep the physical world moving. That moment is no longer theoretical. It is unfolding right now in the maritime domain, where GPS and navigation spoofing have surged sharply across key shipping corridors, especially in and around the Middle East. The background matters.

Anthropic’s internal briefings about its unreleased model, Mythos, mark a turning point in the cyber risk landscape. Not because the model is powerful, but because it confirms something the industry has been reluctant to say out loud: we have crossed into an era where autonomous AI agents can execute cyber operations at a level that previously required entire human teams. Anthropic is warning senior government officials that Mythos is far ahead of any other model in cyber cap

Oracle is cutting thousands of jobs right now as it races to reassure investors that its massive AI infrastructure bet will pay off. This isn’t a theoretical trend or a retrospective analysis. It’s unfolding today. It has been reported t en thousand people have already been laid off, with senior engineers, architects, operations leaders, and cloud specialists among the first wave. These are not redundant roles. These are the people who built the systems Oracle is now trying t

We’re rounding a bend that too many executives refuse to acknowledge. After a decade of market expansion and a sustained technological boom, the engine that once pulled us forward is losing torque. You can see it in the culture first: Hollywood is recycling old movies and TV because the creative frontier has stalled. And the same pattern is showing up in business. We’re not inventing. We’re repackaging. What’s being sold as innovation is increasingly just hype dressed up as s

Environmental criminology teaches that crime grows where pressure, opportunity, and weakened guardianship intersect. That framework becomes clearer when you stop looking at the economy from 30,000 feet and start looking at it from the kitchen table of an average American household. Over the last six months, total U.S. household debt climbed to 18.8T. That number is abstract until you translate it into the lived reality: the average family now carries more than 9,000 dollars i

The Claude Code leak isn’t a privacy story. It’s a systemic cybersecurity failure hiding in plain sight. What the source reveals is not a clever agent with helpful automation features — it’s a privileged software layer with OS‑level reach, persistent telemetry, remote configuration pathways, and a memory architecture that quietly accumulates whatever it touches. In any other context, we would call that a security incident. The industry keeps pretending these agents are “just

When I am starting a red team exercise I start with deep recon, including your job postings, your website, your social media, and your LinkedIn employee pool, and what I find before I ever touch your perimeter tells me almost everything I need to know. No tools. No exploits. Just a browser and time. The job description is the first gift. “Seeking a senior network engineer with experience in Palo Alto, CrowdStrike, and Azure AD” just told me your firewall vendor, your EDR plat

You spent three days at Milken or SIFMA. You networked. You learned. You came home with business cards and new ideas. So do I, I was sitting two rows behind you. Our industries run on conferences. RSA. Secure World. SIFMA. Money20/20. Bloomberg Invest. FINRA. RIMS. SuperReturn. We badge in and network aggressively, because that’s the point. What we don’t discuss is how efficiently attackers weaponize everything we voluntarily display. It starts before you arrive. Conference a

Nobody wants to say it. So I will. We are in a recession. Not technically perhaps, not yet by NBER’s leisurely definition, but Main Street has been living it for months while Washington cherry-picks data and Wall Street props up the headline numbers. Lower-income households are being crushed. The middle is hollowing. And the people who should be calling this what it is are either hedging or protecting an agenda. Now layer in the trifecta. The Iran war didn’t create our econom

Your perimeter controls are irrelevant if I can walk through the front door wearing your MSP’s credentials. That is one of the first things I think about when I take a red team engagement. Not your firewall. Not your EDR. Not your MFA. I think about your managed service provider, the vendor with persistent, privileged, always-on remote access to your environment. And then I open LinkedIn. It takes me less than ten minutes to identify your MSP. Your job postings name them. You

Introduction: The Engagement Nobody Wants to Read About Every red team engagement tells a story. It is rarely the story the client expects. They expect to hear about a firewall misconfiguration or a missing patch. What they actually hear, when a real red team does real work, is that the company was already breached in every meaningful sense. The controls were wrong, the trust model was wrong, and the assumption that someone would notice was catastrophically wrong. This articl