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Security & Compliance

Cybersecurity

Why Your Platform Needs to Be Secure: What We Can Learn From the Railway and Primcloud Incident

A Railway engineer says agents he was running caused activity that Primcloud's founder calls an attempt on his infrastructure. The public argument is about intent. The more useful questions are what separates a penetration test from everything else, and what the reported steps would find on your own platform. Here is what is confirmed, what is only alleged, and what to do this month.

IrenicTech · Nov 5, 2026 · 19 min read

Cybersecurity

Ivanti Connect Secure: Three Chained Flaws, Root Access, and Why Patching Is Not the End of It

Attackers were using three chained Ivanti Connect Secure flaws by at least 3 October, before Ivanti had a fix for the 22.8 and 25.1.1 lines, or for the full chain, so the 29 October update closes the door without telling you who already came through it. This post gives a team with no security operations staff a way to judge exposure from dates, read the Integrity Checker honestly, and rotate the secrets a VPN appliance holds.

IrenicTech · Nov 2, 2026 · 16 min read

Cybersecurity

The ASOS Breach: How One Tricked Employee Opened the Customer Data

In October 2026, ASOS customers got a push notification from the ASOS app saying the company had been hacked. ASOS says it started with one employee tricked into handing over a login. No malware, no software flaw. Here is how that kind of attack works, and the handful of controls that stop it at a company of any size.

IrenicTech · Oct 27, 2026 · 6 min read

Cybersecurity

Railway, Zeabur, TiDB Cloud: When Your Hosting Platform Leaks Your Keys

In one month, Railway, Zeabur and TiDB Cloud all disclosed that attackers reached data their customers trusted them with, including the passwords and API keys apps run on. If a developer built your app on a platform like these, here is what to check, what to rotate, and how to make the next leak cost you less.

IrenicTech · Oct 27, 2026 · 7 min read

Cybersecurity

PHP2Shell: The PHP Flaw That Puts Most Business Websites at Risk

Two critical PHP vulnerabilities, known together as PHP2Shell, let an attacker run code on a web server without logging in. Attacks started before the patch shipped, and most servers are still unpatched. Here is what a business owner needs to check, in plain language.

IrenicTech · Oct 27, 2026 · 7 min read

Cybersecurity

Ransomware Is Up Nearly 50%, and Small Businesses Are Taking Most of It

Ransomware had its busiest quarter in over a year, and the typical victim is not a bank or a hospital chain. It is a manufacturer, an IT firm or a professional services company with fewer than 200 people. Here is what the Q3 2026 numbers show, why backups alone no longer save you, and the short list of controls that matter most.

IrenicTech · Oct 27, 2026 · 6 min read

AI Security

AI Security in 2026: Securing Systems That Write Code and Take Actions

AI created three security surfaces at once: code written faster than it can be reviewed, agents holding real credentials, and attackers using the same tools you are. Most security advice addresses one and ignores the other two. This is the working guide to all three, plus what the compliance picture actually requires rather than what the vendor deck claims.

IrenicTech · Sep 21, 2026 · 9 min read

Healthcare

Everyone Cites HIPAA for Healthcare AI. The Rule That Actually Binds You Is Section 1557

81% of physicians now use AI, up from 38% in 2023. Meanwhile the compliance conversation is stuck on HIPAA, where no AI guidance exists, and ignoring Section 1557, where a binding obligation has been in force since May 2025.

IrenicTech · Jul 12, 2026 · 6 min read