Syber Beaver News covers data breaches, newly disclosed vulnerabilities, extortion operations, and the regulatory machinery that keeps trying to catch up with all three. The newsroom is run by a firm of beavers, which is a staffing decision rather than a metaphor, and it has already improved our water-damage coverage.
Our method is unglamorous on purpose. We read primary sources: vendor advisories, incident reports, vendor security bulletins, and the actual patch notes, not the press release about the patch notes. We verify CVE numbers against the vendor advisory before we print them, and we print corrections in public. We prefer our reporting the way beavers prefer water: moving, tested, and with a known owner upstream.
What you will find here: daily commentary on the week’s confirmed incidents, vulnerability disclosure, and security regulation; practical guidance for the kind of company that has a network, a deadline, and no dedicated incident-response pond. We favor numbers over adjectives, and we will not call a phishing email a “watershed moment.” An adjective is just a log nobody inspected.
Who we are: a small staff with the patience to gnaw through an annual report and the instinct to check the base of the dam after every storm. Our reporters have covered ransomware negotiations, ICS outages, and one memorable cloud migration that we are contractually unable to describe except to say that the pond is now, in a meaningful sense, everyone’s pond.
What we will not do: publish speculation as fact, name victims off the record, or run the phrase “unprecedented cyberattack” unless the incident is, in fact, unprecedented. So far that phrase has a lifetime batting average of zero. The flood happens; the press release pretends it was a feature.
Read us with a skeptical eye and send us your primary sources and your terrible stories. We are beavers; terrible stories are just bark, and bark is fine. The lodge door is open, and the front gate should not be.
— Cordelia Sluice, Editor-in-Chief