Why Weekly Updates Are Paused
If you follow 1-SEC's blog, you're used to a regular cadence: weekly threat intelligence reports, release notes for every version bump, and deep dives on the detection techniques shipping in each build. That cadence is temporarily on hold.
1-SEC has been submitted to several hackathons simultaneously, and judging is actively underway. While our codebase is public and development hasn't stopped, we are pausing public-facing weekly updates until the evaluation period concludes. This avoids any ambiguity about what was built when, and keeps the submission state clean for judges reviewing the project.
Development Has Not Stopped
To be clear: work on 1-SEC continues. The vulnerability intelligence pipeline still runs its weekly scans. New detections are still being written and tested. The Rust sidecar, the LLM Firewall, the AI Containment module — all of it is actively maintained and improved.
What's paused is the public reporting cycle. We are not shipping blog posts, release notes, or changelog summaries until judging concludes. Once it does, expect a consolidated update covering everything that shipped during the gap.
Where We Are Competing
1-SEC is currently submitted to multiple hackathons across different platforms. We are not listing specific competitions here to avoid influencing evaluation, but the project is being judged on its technical depth, real-world applicability, and open source contribution to the security ecosystem.
Each hackathon has its own timeline. Some wrap in days, others run for weeks. We will resume normal publishing as soon as the last active judging period closes.
What to Expect When We're Back
When updates resume, here is what's coming:
A consolidated threat intelligence report covering every weekly scan that ran during the pause. A single release post summarizing all version bumps and new detections shipped in the interim. And the regular weekly cadence picks back up from there.
In the meantime, the project is fully usable. Install or update with the usual one-liner, and every detection we've shipped to date is active and working. Nothing is gated behind the blog — the blog just tells you what changed. The binary already has it.
Stay in the Loop
Star the repo on GitHub to get notified when commits land. Follow the project for release tags. When judging wraps and we flip the publishing switch back on, you will not miss it.
Thanks for following 1-SEC. We will be back with a lot to talk about.