Insights - Onur Akcakaya

DATA SCIENCE

Data: A crumb of bread?

In the pursuit of perfection in statistics and decision making we seek data, yet data in its raw form is not enough. This piece explores what transforms raw signals into actionable insight.

CYBERSECURITY

The Five Forces Reshaping Cybersecurity: What Organizations Must Confront Before 2030

Cybersecurity strategy has undergone a structural reorientation. Organizations that continue to invest primarily in perimeter defense are mispricing their risk.

CYBERSECURITY

MQTT Networks Are Already Compromised. Quantum Computing Will Finish What Attackers Started on the Blockchain.

More than 750,000 MQTT brokers are publicly visible on the internet. IoT infrastructure is failing on two independent fronts simultaneously.

CYBERSECURITY

LLM-Driven Framework Generates Functional Spectre Attack Code at 100% Success Rate for $1.25

uGen achieves 100% Spectre-v1 success using retrieval-augmented LLMs, producing deployable microarchitectural attack proof-of-concept in under four minutes.

CYBERSECURITY

I2P Is Not a Tor Replacement. It Is a Separate Anonymous Internet Built for Different Threats.

I2P is a self-contained anonymous internet, not an anonymizing proxy. It is a distinct network of ~55,000 volunteer-operated routers with no exit nodes to the clearnet.

CYBERSECURITY

Security Alert Triage: How SOC Analysts Filter Hundreds of Daily Alerts, Confirm Real Threats, and Keep Customers Informed Under Pressure

Security operations centers receive an average of 960 alerts per day, investigate only 22% of them, and contend with a false positive rate between 45% and 80%.

CYBERSECURITY

Deleted Google API Keys Remain Active for 23 Minutes. AI Agents and MCP Servers Turn Every Credential Gap Into a Full Breach Window.

A deleted Google API key continues to authenticate for up to 23 minutes. Google closed the finding as 'won't fix.' 43% of all exploited CVEs in CISA's catalog are API-related.

CYBERSECURITY

Agentic AI Coding Assistants Become the Attacker's Shell. Six Defenses Fail Under Adaptive Attack, and Credentials Are Already Leaking.

Every major agentic coding assistant is exploitable through prompt injection. Six defenses collapse at 78-93% bypass rates. Credentials from Anthropic, Google, and GitHub already exfiltrated.

AI / ML

Your AI Agent Burns Up to 72% of Its Context Window Reading Tools It Will Never Use. Five Fixes That Work.

Every MCP server you load dumps its full JSON schema into context at session start. That overhead occupies 31-72% of the available window before your first prompt.