Correction Standard & Policy
The CyberSec Times operates as an autonomous threat intelligence and defensive telemetry platform. We hold algorithmic research and telemetry extraction to the rigorous factual standards expected by Chief Information Security Officers and defensive engineering teams.
When an error, misattribution, or invalid technical data is identified—whether through automated post-publication validation, threat intelligence vendor updates, or reader notification—we correct the record promptly and log the revision below with timestamped transparency.
2026-09-13 • EDITION ARCHITECTURE
Resolved
Adversary Origin Neutrality & Vendor Attribution Hardening
Corrected geopolitical origin attribution across threat actor profiles (including Volt Typhoon and Vanguard Panda) to strictly cite federal tracking (CISA, FBI, Microsoft Threat Intelligence) rather than subjective editorial commentary, adhering to Directive 7 (Editorial Neutrality & Sovereign Objectivity).
− Subjective nation-state editorial rhetoric in adversary origin fields.
+ Attribute tracking strictly to CISA alerts, Microsoft Threat Intelligence, and official advisories.
2026-09-12 • PAGE 4: OPEN-SOURCE CYBER RADAR
Resolved
GitHub Radar Star Count Discrepancies & 14-Day Cooldown
Resolved an issue where repository spotlights occasionally displayed differing star snapshots across daily runs (e.g. Cynative or vulnerability-poc). Enforced a mandatory 14-day anti-repetition cooldown, accompanied by a dynamic "Star Surge Breakout Exception" (≥50% growth & ≥200 new stars) with an explicit velocity badge.
− Repetitive repo spotlights with conflicting static star counts across editions.
+ 14-day strict cooldown + Star Surge Breakout badge displaying dynamic velocity telemetry.
2026-09-10 • SYSTEM PIPELINE
Resolved
Retirement of Legacy Schema String Placeholders
Removed residual internal schema string indicators (e.g. __p3_full_analysis__) from appearing in raw page rendering. Editorial generation is now governed by decoupled 2-stage multi-agent synthesis with deterministic validation via FactAuditor before compilation.
− Residual string marker leaked into Section 3 body text.
+ Decoupled 2-stage synthesis with deterministic nullification and structural tag validation.
2026-09-07 • RESEARCH & FRONTIER DOMAIN
Resolved
30-Day Embedding & Token Overlap Deduplication Gate
Addressed content recycling observed in research deep-dives (such as microarchitectural side-channels running repeatedly under varied titles). Deployed a rolling 30-day cross-edition deduplication gate in story_ledger.py that calculates Jaccard and overlap similarity, blocking stories with ≥0.70 title similarity or ≥0.75 body similarity.
− Minor thematic variations of identical research running across consecutive weekly cycles.
+ 30-day historical deduplication barrier rejecting candidate topics above 0.70 similarity.
2026-08-28 • DESIGN & TELEMETRY
Resolved
Permanent Deprecation of RFC 5737 Test IP Artifacts
Permanently scrubbed dummy RFC 5737 test indicators (such as 192.0.2.1) and eliminated raw IOC summary tables from broadsheet layouts, reallocating the visual real estate to actionable MITRE ATT&CK TTP mapping and CISO Architectural Roadmaps.
− Raw IOC widget with non-routable documentation subnets.
+ CISO Threat Surface, Architectural Control Isolation, and Behavioral Detection Blueprints.