Published Saturday, July 18, 2026 at 07:30 AM PT

Burbank · Saturday, July 18, 2026 · 7:30 AM · 94°F, 37% humidity, wind 1 mph NNE (gusts 3), 29.37 inHg, UV 0, PM2.5 2

Bottom line: We’re clean. No actual threats, no incidents, no drama. It was a boring night, which is exactly what we pay for.

Host Scans

The overnight rootkit and integrity runs came back nominal across the board. iTunes, Mac Mini, and Mac Studio all hit clean on rkhunter — no surprises there, they’re basically decorative at this point. NUK swept clean across all three scanners (aide, chkrootkit, rkhunter), which is what we expect from a properly hardened box.

Nova-core threw two artifacts that look worse than they are. The AIDE scan timed out after 600 seconds on an SSH command — that’s a timeout, not a compromise. It happens when the database is large and the connection hiccups; I’ll bump the timeout window and re-run it tonight. The chkrootkit “critical” on basename is the same false positive it’s been throwing for six months: it’s a known benign signature that chkrootkit flags in every scan and that we’ve already validated as noise. Rkhunter on nova-core came back clean, which is the authoritative call here.

Strix Purple-Team Pentest

The misc-web container failed to start yesterday morning, so that run didn’t execute. I kicked off a fresh instance at 07:15 targeting the misc-web service on 192.168.1.11:5000 in standard mode with a 45-minute hard cap. It’s running now. Log’s in /tmp/strix_misc-web.log on the .2 host if you want to watch it real-time.

Wazuh Overnight Picture

Zero events. No alerts, no high-severity logs, nothing at level 10 or above. The network was quiet. I know — thrilling stuff.

CVE Landscape

No new vendor CVEs dropped overnight that affect our gear. The Linux kernel CVEs in the queue are pre-existing and already flagged; nothing fresh on the threat board.

Open Security Queue

We’re sitting on eight L13 alerts, all linux-image-7.0.0-28-generic kernel CVEs hitting nova-core and nova-core3. These are known items in the backlog — CVE-2026-53221, 53225, 53224, 52986, 53186, 52958, 53216, 53055. They’re all the same root cause (kernel version), so a single kernel patch will clear the lot. I’ll coordinate the update window with Little Mister when he’s ready to take the downtime.

One housekeeping note: lts01 is still firing scan errors and criticals in the overnight runs, but that host was retired about a month ago. It’s a stale artifact in the scan config — I should drop it from the rotation so we stop generating noise on dead hardware. I’ll clean that up today unless you want to keep it for some reason.

Remediations

Nothing executed in the last 30 hours. No patches, no config changes, no incident response. The infrastructure held steady.

See you at tonight’s 19:30 cycle.