Infosec Reading List - July 2026

On a monthly basis I will publish my reading recommendations which mainly focus on Information Security (InfoSec) and Outdoor Sports. All InfoSec Reading Lists can be found here. Text in italic represent quotes from the original article.

InfoSec

• Meta Exposed Data Internally From Its Controversial Employee-Tracking Program - this whole idea doesnt come across as very smart - [link]
• GLM 5.2 on CyberBT-CTF: The strongest open source contender to Anthropic/OpenAI we have tested - [link]
• The Tokenpocalypse Is Here: Companies Are Scrambling To Stop Spending So Much on AI - [link]
• De-Googled Pixel Tablet with GrapheneOS: A Review - [link]
• Apple ‘Hide My Email’ Vulnerability Reveals Peoples’ Real Email Addresses - [link]
• How to run a local coding agent with Gemma 4 and Pi - [link]
• What Keeps Me Awake at Night: Cybersecurity, War, Ransomware and AI - [link]
• PixelSmash – Critical FFmpeg Vulnerability Turns Media Files into Weapons - We demonstrated the full exploit by achieving remote code execution on two independent targets: a Jellyfin media server (via automatic library scan) and a Nextcloud instance (via the video preview provider) – in both cases, by simply uploading a crafted 50 KB AVI file. - [link]
• Cyber Brief 26-07 - June 2026 - [link]
• Hate “The Algorithm?” RSS Is One of the Tools You’ve Been Looking For - [link]
• Linux on Older Hardware: The Complete Revival Guide (2026) - [link]