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Sources: up to five people tied to US Cyber Command died by suicide from early June to early July 2026, prompting it to flag a potential suicide cluster (Bloomberg)

The US military's cyberwarfare unit is scrutinizing an unusually high number of deaths by suicide among personnel over a month-long period this summer …

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The Insecure Default Was the Configuration

I was moving a pile of automation scripts into version control — years of accumulated cron jobs that had only ever existed on one machine — and ran a secret scan before the first commit.

  • Hardcoded API key discovered in automation scripts
  • Default value served as primary configuration
  • Security scanner ineffective at detecting passwords