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Oliver Buchannon
Jagdeep Brar

Founder of SKBSEC. Decoding how attacks unfold, why AI is reshaping security, and what reduces risk

The SIEM That Saw Everything and Reported Nothing

Aug 16, 2026

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5 min read

The SIEM That Saw Everything and Reported Nothing

Your security tool logged the whole breach. That's exactly why it was missed

Jagdeep Brar
Jagdeep Brar
The Human Who Handed Over the Keys

Aug 2, 2026

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5 min read

The Human Who Handed Over the Keys

The best social engineers never break anything. They get you to open the door

Jagdeep Brar
Jagdeep Brar
Your firewall isn't a wall

Jul 26, 2026

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4 min read

Your firewall isn't a wall

The word is doing all the work — and it's teaching you the wrong thing.

Jagdeep Brar
Jagdeep Brar
The internet trusts everyone by default

Jul 12, 2026

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4 min read

The internet trusts everyone by default

One wrong announcement can reroute the whole internet. It has. Repeatedly.

Jagdeep Brar
Jagdeep Brar
The Attack Hiding Inside the Instructions

Jul 5, 2026

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4 min read

The Attack Hiding Inside the Instructions

Prompt injection is SQL injection in 1998 — and most companies aren't listening

Jagdeep Brar
Jagdeep Brar
The Breach Decision No One Talks About: Why the First 72 Hours Reveal Everything

Jun 21, 2026

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3 min read

The Breach Decision No One Talks About: Why the First 72 Hours Reveal Everything

What a company does before it tells anyone says everything about its security

Jagdeep Brar
Jagdeep Brar
Zero Trust Isn't Zero Risk

Jun 14, 2026

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4 min read

Zero Trust Isn't Zero Risk

The most hyped framework of the decade — and breaches keep happening anyway

Jagdeep Brar
Jagdeep Brar
The Attacker Didn't Bring a Weapon. They Used Yours

May 31, 2026

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4 min read

The Attacker Didn't Bring a Weapon. They Used Yours

No malware. No alerts. Just your OS doing exactly what it was designed to do.

Jagdeep Brar
Jagdeep Brar
The Padlock Is Lying to You

May 24, 2026

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3 min read

The Padlock Is Lying to You

HTTPS doesn't mean safe. Here's where encryption actually ends

Jagdeep Brar
Jagdeep Brar
The AI That Cried Wolf — and the One That Said Nothing

May 17, 2026

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4 min read

The AI That Cried Wolf — and the One That Said Nothing

The AI watching your network is guessing. It flags what isn't there. It misses what is. Here's why

Jagdeep Brar
Jagdeep Brar
 The XZ Utils Backdoor: A Two-Year Con

May 10, 2026

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3 min read

The XZ Utils Backdoor: A Two-Year Con

A patient attacker, a tired maintainer, and a backdoor that almost shipped to every Linux server on Earth

Jagdeep Brar
Jagdeep Brar
The Patch You Didn't Apply — and Why That Was Rational

May 3, 2026

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3 min read

The Patch You Didn't Apply — and Why That Was Rational

Of 50,000 CVEs disclosed in 2025, ~1% were ever exploited. The skill isn't patching faster — it's knowing which ones to ignore.

Jagdeep Brar
Jagdeep Brar
They knew everything before they hit send

Apr 26, 2026

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3 min read

They knew everything before they hit send

The most dangerous phase of an attack happens before the attacker touches a single system.

Jagdeep Brar
Jagdeep Brar
MFA isn't stopping what you think it is

Apr 19, 2026

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3 min read

MFA isn't stopping what you think it is

Attackers aren't guessing your second factor. They're walking around it entirely.

Jagdeep Brar
Jagdeep Brar
The Phishing Email No Human Can Spot

Apr 12, 2026

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6 min read

The Phishing Email No Human Can Spot

How AI quietly removed the one thing people actually used to catch phishing — and what you're supposed to rely on now.

Jagdeep Brar
Jagdeep Brar
18,000 organizations. Zero alerts. One build server.

Apr 6, 2026

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3 min read

18,000 organizations. Zero alerts. One build server.

The SolarWinds attack wasn't a hack. It was a patient, surgical operation that rewrote the rules.

Jagdeep Brar
Jagdeep Brar
Your Password Is Already Gone

Mar 30, 2026

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3 min read

Your Password Is Already Gone

The real reason security advice hasn’t caught up with modern attacks

Jagdeep Brar
Jagdeep Brar
Why I Started Writing SKB Decoded

Mar 19, 2026

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2 min read

Why I Started Writing SKB Decoded

Most security content will keep you informed. This is here to make you think differently.

Jagdeep Brar
Jagdeep Brar

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