Market Context and Why It Matters Mailbox storms no longer signal mere annoyance; they now mask credential raids staged through cloud trust, browser add-ons, and scripts that look benign until they quietly seize the keys to the company. The surge in collaboration platforms and sanctioned cloud
Rupert Marais has spent years in the trenches of Windows defense and incident response, with a focus on endpoint hardening, device security, and network controls. In this conversation, he unpacks how an architectural blind spot in RPC can let a low-privileged process ride a legitimate connection
Lead: The Surprise Setup That Wouldn’t Stay Finished Few phrases on a corporate PC triggered more anxiety than a chipper banner announcing “You’re almost done setting up your PC,” surfacing months after the actual setup had been completed and right when a user needed to get work done. The timing
Rupert Marais is our in-house Security specialist with deep, hands-on experience in endpoint and device security, cybersecurity strategy, and network management. He’s worked through the quirks of Windows NT and Windows 95 to today’s modern builds, coaching teams through pranks that turned into
Back-to-back meetings blur into a single rush when a trusted name on Telegram insists a quick Terminal paste will rescue a failing call, nudging macOS users to trade caution for speed at the exact moment a thief needs only one click. That is the opening the ClickFix technique exploits: it turns the
Why Passwords Finally Lost Their Last Safe Harbor Passwords are still the soft underbelly of enterprise access, bleeding breaches through reuse, phishing, and silent credential theft on unmanaged Windows PCs, and the lingering dependence on text secrets has turned shared and personal devices into
