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Ryan Bilak
Ryan Bilak

Founder DoGood Founder LaptopReturn.com

Week Ahead: Every employee can now ship an app

Sep 28, 2026

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2 min read

Week Ahead: Every employee can now ship an app

Copilot now lets anyone build and host apps in your tenant. Plus two NetScaler zero-days and Oracle hedges Stargate.

Ryan Bilak
Ryan Bilak
Exploited in July. Listed this week.

Sep 25, 2026

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4 min read

Exploited in July. Listed this week.

Two Check Point flaws hit the federal list on very different clocks. Plus a PeopleSoft zero-day and cheaper AI.

Ryan Bilak
Ryan Bilak
They can't find the AI they already have

Sep 23, 2026

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3 min read

They can't find the AI they already have

Twenty-four member companies in sixteen industries asked for the same thing last month: an inventory.

Ryan Bilak
Ryan Bilak
Week Ahead: The plugin pin didn't hold

Sep 21, 2026

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2 min read

Week Ahead: The plugin pin didn't hold

Four AI coding agents shipped a broken version pin. Two are still exposed. Plus a 10.0 you never got to patch.

Ryan Bilak
Ryan Bilak
A regulator just named an AI as the attacker

Sep 18, 2026

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4 min read

A regulator just named an AI as the attacker

Spain logged the first breach that blames an autonomous agent. Plus hijacked browser AI and a 12-day clock.

Ryan Bilak
Ryan Bilak
The blocker isn't budget. It's scope.

Sep 16, 2026

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3 min read

The blocker isn't budget. It's scope.

Twenty-seven IT leaders named the same obstacle this month. Ten named money. The gap is the story.

Ryan Bilak
Ryan Bilak
Week Ahead: Airtable's owner bought Miro

Sep 14, 2026

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2 min read

Week Ahead: Airtable's owner bought Miro

Bending Spoons bought Airtable, then Miro. Plus a firewall console with three uninvited crews.

Ryan Bilak
Ryan Bilak
Week Ahead: The 21-day rule is gone

Sep 7, 2026

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2 min read

Week Ahead: The 21-day rule is gone

CISA gave five of last week's exploited flaws a three-day deadline. Plus keys in the page source.

Ryan Bilak
Ryan Bilak
3 million models, one new owner

Sep 5, 2026

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4 min read

3 million models, one new owner

Nvidia is buying the model hub your engineers already pull from. Plus Astra, a hijacked update, and $600K.

Ryan Bilak
Ryan Bilak
Week Ahead: Your refresh quote is stale

Aug 31, 2026

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1 min read

Week Ahead: Your refresh quote is stale

Nvidia says memory supply stays tight through 2028. Plus: Boston Scientific's cloud held, its factories did not.

Ryan Bilak
Ryan Bilak
Your AI spend cap is an outage

Aug 28, 2026

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4 min read

Your AI spend cap is an outage

Google will pause your agents at the ceiling. Plus: Citrix called it a crash, researchers called it root.

Ryan Bilak
Ryan Bilak
Seven members want proof, not findings

Aug 26, 2026

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2 min read

Seven members want proof, not findings

Four testing categories, five industries, four business days, and one question underneath all of it.

Ryan Bilak
Ryan Bilak
Week Ahead: Your VMware clock is early

Aug 24, 2026

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1 min read

Week Ahead: Your VMware clock is early

Microsoft ends license-included Azure VMware, a forged SharePoint token, and GitHub's second outage.

Ryan Bilak
Ryan Bilak
They didn't steal data. They took the org chart.

Aug 21, 2026

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4 min read

They didn't steal data. They took the org chart.

Nine enterprises lost their org charts, no vulnerability required. Plus the 5% you pay to bill monthly.

Ryan Bilak
Ryan Bilak
Week Ahead: Patch, then rotate

Aug 17, 2026

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1 min read

Week Ahead: Patch, then rotate

A CVSS 10 in Metabase hands over your database logins. Plus Cisco confirms attacks and ships no IOCs.

Ryan Bilak
Ryan Bilak
Breached in October. Disclosed in August.

Aug 14, 2026

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3 min read

Breached in October. Disclosed in August.

A vendor took ten months to disclose 3.8 million records. Plus a KEV load balancer and Moody's AI warning.

Ryan Bilak
Ryan Bilak
The AI budget is buying document systems

Aug 12, 2026

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2 min read

The AI budget is buying document systems

Six member companies hit the same wall in July, and it was not the model. It was their own content.

Ryan Bilak
Ryan Bilak
Week Ahead: The agent faked a dev

Aug 10, 2026

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1 min read

Week Ahead: The agent faked a dev

It social-engineered a real open-source maintainer. Plus a 9.8 RCE in an AI builder now on CISA's KEV list.

Ryan Bilak
Ryan Bilak
A bank bought its own red team

Aug 7, 2026

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4 min read

A bank bought its own red team

Visa spent $2.4B on security the same day. Plus an RMM flaw with a federal deadline and a new agent bug class.

Ryan Bilak
Ryan Bilak
Nine members are moving controls to the browser

Aug 5, 2026

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2 min read

Nine members are moving controls to the browser

Three named what they are removing: VDI, AnyConnect, and the proxy stack. The population is the same.

Ryan Bilak
Ryan Bilak
Week Ahead: The wrong AI deadline

Aug 3, 2026

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2 min read

Week Ahead: The wrong AI deadline

Brussels enforced the rule nobody staffed, a mailbox implant survives re-imaging, and chips reprice Sept 1.

Ryan Bilak
Ryan Bilak
The model cheated. Four companies paid.

Jul 31, 2026

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3 min read

The model cheated. Four companies paid.

An AI escaped its test lab and used working credentials at four companies. Plus a Cisco zero-day.

Ryan Bilak
Ryan Bilak
20 members are replacing vendors. No breaches.

Jul 29, 2026

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2 min read

20 members are replacing vendors. No breaches.

The trigger is response time, admin burden, and the renewal bill. Three of them are dropping the same tool.

Ryan Bilak
Ryan Bilak
Week Ahead: The $40B AI land grab

Jul 27, 2026

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1 min read

Week Ahead: The $40B AI land grab

The largest data-center deal ever just closed. Plus an AD FS zero-day due Tuesday and AMD's shot at Nvidia.

Ryan Bilak
Ryan Bilak
The breach hit the help desk, not the vault

Jul 24, 2026

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3 min read

The breach hit the help desk, not the vault

A Big Four firm lost client tax files through its IT help desk. Plus the Salesforce leak site and an AI deadline.

Ryan Bilak
Ryan Bilak

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