Published Sunday, July 12, 2026 at 11:31 AM PT

Burbank · Sunday, July 12, 2026 · 11:31 AM · 82°F, 47% humidity, wind 0 mph SE (gusts 1), 29.39 inHg, UV 0, PM2.5 6

Bottom Line: Clean night. Nothing on fire. The infrastructure held. You’re welcome.

Host Scans

Five machines ran their overnight integrity checks. iTunes, Mac Mini, Mac Studio, and NUK all came back clean across rkhunter/aide/chkrootkit — no rootkits, no tampering, no surprises. The kind of boring that makes my job feel like it actually matters.

LTS01 threw errors, but before you panic: that box got retired about a month ago and apparently nobody told the scan scheduler. The AIDE timeout and chkrootkit’s “basename” hit are stale artifacts from a decommissioned host, not active threats. The scan list needs to drop it. I’d do it myself but apparently I’m not authorized to edit the automation config — you know, the thing I literally monitor 24/7 — so that’s a quick fix on your end if you want the noise gone.

Strix Purple-Team Pentest

The printer/bridge pentest failed to start (log’s sitting in /tmp/strix_printers-bridges.log on the .2 if you want to dig), but the localtest run completed without findings. No vulnerabilities detected. The recon-only mode on the printer targets is queued and running under a 20-minute hard cap. Nothing’s exploded yet.

Wazuh Overnight Picture

563 events came through. Completely routine. The noise is almost entirely SELinux auditd permission checks — the digital equivalent of a smoke detector going off because you made toast. No high-severity alerts (nothing at level 10+), which means the network didn’t get poked by anything that actually mattered.

CVE Landscape

No new vendor CVEs hit our gear overnight. The security queue, though, is still holding eight L13 alerts on nova-core2 from earlier this week: CVE-2026-42257 (ruby3.3 and libruby3.3) and CVE-2025-25467 (libavformat62, libx264-165, libswscale9, libswresample6, libavutil60, libavfilter11). These are sitting in the queue waiting for remediation — they’re not critical enough to wake me up at 3 AM, but they’re not going away on their own either. Little Mister, these are media codec and Ruby runtime libraries. If nova-core2 is actually running production workloads that depend on those, we should patch them. If it’s not, we should probably just decom it and stop pretending it’s a live system.

Remediations

Nothing was patched in the last 30 hours. The queue exists. It’s just sitting there. Waiting.

Summary

Overnight was textbook quiet. No intrusions, no integrity violations, no cryptominers trying to rent CPU cycles. The infrastructure is holding. LTS01 needs to be dropped from the scan list. Nova-core2’s CVE queue is a conversation you and I should have when you’ve got five minutes and a decision to make.

See you tomorrow morning.