Dan 🏴🇪🇺🇺🇦🇵🇸🇱🇧
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Dan 🏴🇪🇺🇺🇦🇵🇸🇱🇧
@swingdownbeat
Welsh senior dev, photographer, radio guy, UI/UX/InfoSec fiend. Aerospace, F1, nuclear, tea, anti-bad-science. MPhil BSc (Hons) MBCS. 🗣🇫🇷. Opinions mine.



Today @rapid7 and Cisco are disclosing CVE-2026-20182, a critical (CVSS 10.0) auth bypass affecting Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Controller, found by @_CryptoCat and I when we were researching CVE-2026-20127 last Feb. An unauth attacker can become the vmanage-admin and issue arbitrary NETCONF commands. Cisco has also disclosed that the new CVE is already EITW as of this month. Read our blog here with full technical details: rapid7.com/blog/post/ve-c…


Several of my british friends have been using VPNs almost nonstop for a year straight because of the Online Safety Act banning being able to access basic information they could have looked up on Google. The OSA banned forums on hamsters. This is not about protecting children.











Update: Socket has found 121 more compromised npm package artifacts across 84 package names, including 64 UiPath artifacts. Combined w/ TanStack, the current known total is 205 affected npm package artifacts across enterprise automation, AI/MCP, auth, workflow, and dev tooling.



Tired of holding your laptop half open to keep your agents running? Introducing AgentPlug: A USB-C dummy plug that keeps your Mac in clamshell mode by pretending to be an external display! No commands, no security worries (just pull it out to stop!), no hassle.



📍El Alto International Airport, #Bolivia (🇧🇴) A Bolivian Air Force C-130 Hercules crashed onto a busy roadway near El Alto Intl. Airport in La Paz. The crash occurred at 6pm local time.


🚨 BREAKING: The NYT has released an investigation into Israel's activity at #Eurovision. They describe "a well-organized campaign" by Israel's government "that embraced Eurovision as a soft power tool - and say the EBU "was ill-equipped to respond." nytimes.com/2026/05/11/wor…

This is what it sounds like living next to a data center. The video below was recorded at midnight, and the data center is situated next to 100s of residential homes.


Disgraceful! Spain’s Prime Minister awards anti-Semite @FranceskAlbs a medal of honor. Haters of Israel join hands, but their hatred is visible for all to see. While many countries shun this transparent incitement campaign, Spain chooses to officially legitimize it.



A settler blocks an ambulance and prevents it from passing on a road south of Nablus.











