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Level UI • 1 day • in Articles • 9 min read
An MCP server is not a new API. It is a thin layer over the one you already have
Somewhere in the last year, "do we need an MCP server?" joined the list of questions that arrive in a brief before anyone has said what the thing is for. It is usually framed as MCP vs API, as though the Model Context Protocol were a newer kind of AP...
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  • ai
  • api
  • webdev
  • security
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Songeziwe • Sep 22 • in Articles • 5 min read
South Africa Accounts for 92% of Africa’s Ransomware Detections. Here’s What IT Teams Should Learn From It
South Africa has become a major focal point in Africa’s ransomware landscape. According to INTERPOL’s African Cyberthreat Assessment Report 2026, South Africa accounted for 92% of ransomware detections recorded across Africa in 2025, based on TrendA...
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  • cybersecurity
  • ransomware
  • cyberresilience
  • informationsecurity
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Tom Smithverified • Jul 22 • in Articles • 4 min read
Sophos Traces a Ransomware Operation Back to 12 AI Agents Running Inside a Coding Assistant
In May, Sophos found something inside a customer's network that looked less like an intrusion and more like a software team at work. A threat actor, tracked internally as STAC6994, had provisioned four virtual machines and was running roughly a doze...
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  • cybersecurity
  • ransomware
  • agenticai
  • identitysecurity
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Tom Smithverified • Jul 17 • in Articles • 3 min read
Developer Weekly Briefing — July 18, 2026
A focused week — two deep enterprise stories and a security piece with numbers worth paying attention to. Here's what mattered. GitHub's new PR inbox is a direct response to the review bottleneck AI created Teams using AI coding tools are merging ...
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  • devops
  • github
  • aiagents
  • ransomware
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Tom Smithverified • Jul 15 • in Articles • 3 min read
Sophos Fusion Automates 52% of Ransomware Response as Identity Attacks Hit 79%
Sophos is launching a new security architecture built around a problem its own data just confirmed: identity, not software vulnerabilities, is now the primary way ransomware gets in. The company's 2026 State of Ransomware report, released today alon...
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  • cybersecurity
  • ransomware
  • agenticai
  • identitysecurity
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Tom Smithverified • May 19 • in Articles • 5 min read
When the Attacker Has Admin Privileges: Everpure's Case for Making Storage the Last Line of Defense
A Fortune 100 organization got hit hard. Attackers used stolen credentials and native tools — no malware. They deleted thousands of endpoints and virtual clusters. Traditional defenses never fired. But the data layer? Untouched. That's the story Br...
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  • cyberresilience
  • dataprotection
  • storagesecurity
  • ransomware
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Tom Smithverified • 21 hours • in Articles • 9 min read
Developer Weekly Briefing — October 30, 2026
Security dominated this week, but not in the usual way. Two active campaigns turned GitHub configuration files into attack surfaces. Researchers demonstrated that the built-in browsers inside AI coding tools can read your SSH keys. And at Oracle AI ...
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  • agenticai
  • devsecops
  • github
  • localai
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Tom Smithverified • Mar 31 • in Articles • 7 min read
Why Backup and Security Teams Don't Talk (And Why That's About to Change)
Here's a scenario that plays out in enterprises every day: the security team deploys ransomware-detection tools across endpoints and production systems. The backup team runs nightly jobs to protect data. Both teams believe they're doing their part to...
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  • ransomware
  • cybersecurity
  • dataprotection
  • hycu
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Tom Smithverified • Aug 9, 2025 • in Articles • 4 min read
Why 74% of repeat ransomware victims say they have too many security tools, and what to do about it.
Security Tool Sprawl: How 'More Protection' Actually Creates More Ransomware Risk Barracuda's 2025 research reveals a troubling paradox: organizations with the most security tools are getting hit hardest by ransomware In cybersecurity, more isn't ...
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  • ransomware
  • cybersecurity
  • securitysprawl
  • emailsecurity
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