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Beware the Sandworm: Shai‑Hulud and the New Shape of Package‑Manager Worms

Aaron Gilmore Published on: 2026/01/30

Shai‑Hulud and Sha1‑Hulud 2.0 show how npm worms spread via stolen tokens. Learn how to lock publishing, harden CI, and rotate secrets fast.

Covenant Health Ransomware: The Real Cost of Revised Impact

Aaron Gilmore

Published on: 2026/01/28

When breach impact gets revised upward, the cost isn’t just records—it’s trust, governance, notification waves, and long-tail recovery work. Lessons from Covenant Health.

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China Plant Explosion: First Hours of Incident Command

Aaron Gilmore

Published on: 2026/01/23

What the first hours after a chemical plant explosion require: scene safety, HazMat monitoring, unified command, and protective-action messaging.

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Port Strike Deadline: Slow-Motion Incident Planning

Aaron Gilmore

Published on: 2026/01/21

Treat port-strike deadlines like countdown incidents: triggers, PACE routing, inventory buffers, and comms cadence to protect deliveries and readiness.

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Starlink Global Outage: Single-Point Software Failures

Aaron Gilmore

Published on: 2026/01/16

Starlink’s July 2025 outage shows “global” systems can share one weak point: the control-plane software that coordinates everything.

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