Yet another Hacker News

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999900000999 2 hours ago | parent

Various users are reporting scam emails with full booking details.

Stay safe guys.

CSSer 1 hour ago | parent

It seems early to speculate, but if this is related to the massive uptick in CVEs we've been seeing recently it feels like we're actively witnessing a corporate reckoning around security posture the likes of which has never occurred.

toomuchtodo 1 hour ago | parent

https://pwn.watch

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

> it feels like we're actively witnessing a corporate reckoning around security posture the likes of which has never occurred.

As a cyber person, I agree. The theater has met reality, and those who put in the work will have an easier time than those who just checked a box. Good luck to all actively responding.

CSSer 40 minutes ago | parent

Safety alignment feels like an absolute farce and the completely wrong approach too. These things are guns, or attack dogs. We've never succeeded at reigning in software with this approach in the past, besides maybe DRM, which is itself laughable under many circumstances. This has the unprecedented ability to entertain the base desires of most juvenile threat actors, which is to get a big payout with minimal effort (let alone the pre-existing sophisticated attackers, who are now basically gods). Now we have a turn-key tool that can leverage and chain the most minute vulnerabilities up the ladder to full compromise or discover zero days with unyielding dedication. It feels like it almost makes CVE level classification moot.

toomuchtodo 35 minutes ago | parent

As someone who red teams with open weight models (GLM 5.3 currently) and a domain focused harness, I would agree with this. No regulation will prevent a sufficiently capable open model, nor stop the development of open models. Alignment efforts are “please don’t stop us from selling stock to the unsophisticated” imho. They aren’t stopping anyone competent and/or capable from model development and training.

stackskipton 59 minutes ago | parent

I'm not sure there will be corporate reckoning. Unless security breaches come with business impacting consequences, they will continue to ignore it and just pay out occasional class action lawsuit.

toomuchtodo 57 minutes ago | parent

I agree for data loss and ransomware where the ransom is paid, ie economically driven attacks. I wouldn’t agree when the hack is designed to kill the business destructively and no economic gain is sought or intended.

The difference in attack methodology is trivial, from a threat actor perspective, imho.

dboreham 56 minutes ago | parent

Sony Pictures is still in business.

toomuchtodo 54 minutes ago | parent

Zeabur is shutting down: what happens next - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50198025 - October 2026

- On October 14, 2026 (UTC), an external attacker gained unauthorized access to Zeabur's internal systems and some customer services. We began our emergency response as soon as we detected the unusual activity. We have confirmed that this incident affected a broader scope than the incident in late August...Having another security incident in such a short time has let down the people who trusted us. Protecting your services and data is our responsibility, and we have fallen short.

The end of the road – OSGrid shutting down due to attack - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50060854 - October 2026

7 Companies Forced to Shut Down After a Data Breach - https://n2ws.com/blog/5-companies-shut-down-data-breaches - March 4th, 2025

(if others have more examples, I am collecting them, please drop them in a reply)

AnotherGoodName 27 minutes ago | parent

The "All modern digital infrastructure" xkcd (https://xkcd.com/2347/) where they had a fragile tower of blocks needs an update where those blocks are now collapsed on the floor in a complete mess.

jcranmer 16 minutes ago | parent

There's been some modifications to that image for the AI era. I don't know where the original source is to properly credit the creator, but one example is here: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/darshan-j-baligeri_all-modern...

ricardobayes 25 minutes ago | parent

Perhaps it's time to... hire more engineers?

swatcoder 11 minutes ago | parent

Engineers aren't a help if they have poor inuition and insight into security concerns themselves, which is true for almost all of them.

Filling departments with inexperienced people based on how well they can recall a classic algorithm on a whiteboard was never the set up for a secure software or IT ecosystem. Peers watching in shock and dismay as supply chain risk escalated year over year for the last decade, among other horrifying practices, have been crying over this all along.

They might be able to follow an AI lead better than someone even less technical, but it's unclear that doing without true expertise as an oversight and check would cut it.

Having walked ourselves into it long before AI appeared, We're set up for a dark time with few easy outs.

danieltk76 1 hour ago | parent

thankfully I already had frontier airlines marked as spam email, so this changes nothing for me.

phren0logy 1 hour ago | parent

Every interaction I've ever had with Frontier Airlines has been negative.

jukkan 32 minutes ago | parent

Earlier this year, Frontier was one of the orgs that got their data leaked thanks to incorrectly configured security settings on their Microsoft Power Pages based website. While this is unlikely to be the source for current flight confirmation numbers, such data could sure help in phishing operations.

https://venarix.com/blog/exfilsquad-targets-misconfigured-mi...