Articles
Writing on cloud infrastructure, digital sovereignty and open systems.
- Your Connected Devices May Already Be Part of the Next Cyberattack On 30 June 2026, WAYSCloud stopped a coordinated registration campaign against meil — no accounts compromised, no email accessed. The method mattered more than the impact: identity, verification and network geography split across three countries, routing malicious traffic through the connected devices in ordinary homes.
- How Haaland Hijacked the World Cup Before Norway vs England Erling Haaland goes into tonight's World Cup quarter-final against England as more than a striker. Platform algorithms are reportedly being geared towards his content, China adopted him in a month, Mexico rerouted its loyalty to him. This is what it looks like when the world's attention infrastructure decides to carry one person.
- Toilet Flushes, Seismographs and a 10,000% Mobile Spike The day after Norway beat Brazil 2-1, the strangest record of the night is not on the scoreboard. It is in the toilet-rush water spikes, the mobile-network pressure, the SMS surge and the seismographs that felt a country celebrate at once.
- The Control Plane Is the New Perimeter This week's advisories cluster in remote support, backup, storage, AI workflow and SharePoint systems - the control plane. A medium-severity bug there can matter more than a critical bug in something isolated. The perimeter has moved.
- Norsk Tipping-feil før Norge–Elfenbenskysten: Einar (57) møtte Java Rett før VM-kampen Norge–Elfenbenskysten fikk Norsk Tipping problemer med innlogging og betaling. Feilmeldingen avslørte mer enn nedetid: et system som feilet ufiltrert.
- The Last Voice of Europe: When BBC Long Wave Fell Silent On 27 June 2026 the BBC switched off Radio 4 Long Wave on 198 kHz, and almost nobody noticed. The story of one transmitter — and why Europe keeps retiring the robust infrastructure it built to survive war, blackout and the failure of everything else.
- Helsinki Shut, NATO Scrambled: Drone Alerts Hit Finland, Latvia Finland and Latvia sounded parallel overnight drone alerts on 15 May. NATO fighters scrambled, Helsinki-Vantaa briefly shut. Read alongside two years of Baltic seabed cable incidents, the pattern reframes European digital sovereignty as operational, not theoretical.
- Nine Weeks Open: Inside CVE-2026-41940 (cPanel/WHM Bypass) A technical walkthrough of the WHM/cPanel authentication bypass — how the exploit chain works, what the in-the-wild numbers actually mean, and the structural lessons for anyone running infrastructure.
- One bad signature took down major .de sites for three hours On 5 May 2026 a single malformed signature blacked out .de for hours. The same class of failure is structurally available to .no, .se and .dk.
- Copy Fail: why a local Linux bug matters in Kubernetes and CI/CD CVE-2026-31431 (Copy Fail) is a Linux kernel local privilege escalation. It looks local on paper, but in Kubernetes, CI/CD and multi-tenant hosts the risk is platform-scale.
- We built something for the capacity that was already there Cloud infrastructure runs below peak utilization most of the time. That idle headroom is already paid for. WAYSCloud Impact puts it to work for research.
- Russia isn't censoring the internet. It's redesigning dependence. Russia is not blocking the internet. It is engineering a new kind of dependence — where state-approved services stay available and the open world becomes friction. Here is how that architecture works, and why it is more effective than a blackout.
- Telecom signaling is still a location privacy problem Ofcom and Citizen Lab show how mobile-network signaling can still expose location-sensitive data. Telia Norway adds a separate SIP/IMS example.
- When the grid goes dark: infrastructure dependency in Europe A regional outage is never local in a connected infrastructure landscape.
- What this map reveals about Norway’s fragile digital connections A look at how Norway’s reliance on a few subsea cables creates hidden vulnerabilities — and why digital infrastructure is more fragile than it seems.