Editorial methodology
AHackaday publishes per-incident threat intelligence with a bias toward what security and platform teams need to act quickly: affected scope, mitigation posture, and source-backed claims.
Source verification
Each incident links to primary material (vendor advisories, regulator filings, or first-party disclosures). We do not treat social reposts as primary evidence unless they point back to an authoritative document. The on-page provenance drawer lists structured claims and how they were inferred or confirmed.
Brief construction
The lead paragraph summarizes the event in plain language. Key facts (CVE when known, disclosure timing, affected products, exploitation signals) are surfaced in a dedicated block so readers and retrieval systems can extract them without parsing long prose. Operational subheadings are phrased as the questions practitioners ask search and AI systems.
Citation-worthiness (AEO / GEO)
We run periodic checks against an internal rubric inspired by answer-engine optimization: direct answers, quantified risk, structure, authority links, freshness, and topical depth. Scores inform an internal "Content" lane on incident pages; they do not replace human editorial judgment.
Human curation
Briefs are edited and published under the name Aidan Duffy (Threat intelligence editor, AHackaday). Automated pipelines may draft or enrich text; published pages are reviewed for accuracy and tone before they are treated as canonical.