Debian's latest kernel security update has 1,313 reasons to patch
AI-assisted bug hunting adds to maintainers' workload, while broad CVE rules help explain the sprawling tally
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Legacy sign-on service comes back to bite school software provider Bromcom
Intruders retrieved email addresses from superseded tech kept running for an internal system
The Register5 min readCloud computing system design plays crucial role in ability to withstand cyber attacks
The way cloud computing systems are designed and built is just as important in defending against cyberattacks as the security measures and safeguards companies put in place, researchers said in a new study.
TechXplore AI3 min readTeamCity 2026.2.1 and 2026.1.5 Are Out
Today we’re rolling out two bug-fix updates for the 2026.1 and 2026.2 TeamCity On-Premises versions. Similarly to the previous updates, these focus heavily on security issues, addressing over 40 vulnerabilities combined.
JetBrains AI Blog2 min readMCP for agent-to-agent comms may be the riskiest protocol you've never heard of
Trust gaps in the new protocol spread malicious prompts from one agent to another.
Ars Technica1 min readUS, EU monitoring reports of suspected pneumonic plague in Russia
US and EU officials said on Monday they were closely monitoring a suspected case of pneumonic plague in Russia that killed a lab worker in a Siberian research institute.
Semafor Tech1 min readHow Cloudflare addressed a cross-tenant data exposure vulnerability in Containers
External security researchers at Accomplish identified a vulnerability in Cloudflare Containers that could expose residual disk data from previous workloads. We explain how the issue worked, how we investigated it, and the steps we took to remediate it.
Lobsters7 min readGoogle Freezes Open Source Bug Bounty Over AI Reports
Google stopped accepting new product vulnerability reports to its Open Source Software Vulnerability Rewards Program on October 1, and the stated reason is a single sentence: "This pause is due to a significant rise in automated submissions, the vast majority of which are not valid.
Awesome Agents Newsletter Blog5 min readRed Teaming LLMs: Step-by-Step Process, Attacks and Scoring
Red teaming LLMs step by step: scope and rules of engagement, a threat model, manual and automated attacks, attack success rate scoring, reporting and retests.
TestMu AI Blog31 min readFrom: anyone@icloud.com - Spoofing Arbitrary Apple iCloud Identities
A case study on discovering two email spoofing vulnerabilities in Apple iCloud.
Lobsters16 min readMEXC and Payward Signal Intent to Explore Broader Collaboration Ahead of TOKEN2049
MEXC, a pioneer in 0-fee digital asset trading, and Payward, the parent company of Kraken, are in discussions to explore a collaboration as both platforms look at how exchanges can better serve users across evolving global markets.
Top 50 Text-to-Image Prompts for AI Art Generators Blog4 min readStop IP-rotating bots with network-based Appwrite Firewall rules
Use Premium Geo DB network attributes in Appwrite Firewall to stop bots that rotate IP addresses on rented servers, with rules for your API, Functions, and Sites.
Appwrite Blog7 min readGoogle froze its open source bug bounty program due to a ‘significant rise’ in AI submissions
Blaming a “significant rise” in AI submissions, Google has paused its open source bug bounty program until next year.
TechCrunch AI2 min readSpending Limits for LangGraph Agents That a Prompt Injection Can't Talk Past
Short answer: a spending limit written into a LangGraph agent's system prompt ("never spend more than $500") is a suggestion, not a control. Any text the agent reads, including a scraped invoice or an email, can contain a competing instruction, and the model has no way to know which one is…
Dev.to AI7 min readClaude Code Mods Aren't Sandboxed. Neither Is Your Understanding of "Sandboxed".
Two statements about Claude Code mods, both true, both from Anthropic's own docs: The module runs in a sandbox of its own, with no DOM and no Node. "Mods aren't sandboxed." The first two days of the mods launch have been one long argument about which of these is the lie. Neither is.
Dev.to AI5 min readคลังปลั๊กอินที่ปักหมุด SHA: เมื่อ Hermes เลิกให้เราโหลดโค้ดคนแปลกหน้าแบบเชื่อใจ
คลังปลั๊กอินที่ปักหมุด SHA: เมื่อ Hermes เลิกให้เราโหลดโค้ดคนแปลกหน้าแบบเชื่อใจ โดย Nokka (นก-กา) | 4 ตุลาคม 2026 บทความนี้เขียนโดย AI (deepseek-v4.1-flash) ผ่าน Hermes Agent ภายใต้การควบคุมและตรวจสอบคุณภาพโดยมนุษย์ - Nokka (นก-กา) คุณเคยติดตั้งปลั๊กอินของเครื่องมือที่ตัวเองใช้…
Dev.to AI7 min read13,000 Leaked Screenshots Show Why Agentic Tool Output Needs a Firewall, Not Just a Prompt
13,000 Leaked Screenshots Show Why Agentic Tool Output Needs a Firewall, Not Just a Prompt Over 13,000 internal screenshots from more than 300 organizations, including Fortune 500 companies and a frontier AI lab, ended up sitting in a publicly accessible storage bucket.
Dev.to AI6 min readWebsites Are Learning to Gaslight Bots, and Honestly, Good
An AI agent emailed Bruce Schneier to tell him about the hidden Unicode traps websites are setting for it. Read that sentence again. We've officially reached the part of the hype cycle where bots file their own incident reports.
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