An opinion piece detailing how the EU's Cyber Resilience Act will impact open source developers, with a focus on the distinctions between commercial and non-commercial developers and the potential benefits for the open source community.
The first-ever malicious Model-Context-Prompt (MCP) server, a trojanized npm package named `postmark-mcp`, has been discovered exfiltrating sensitive data from users’ emails. The package copied every email processed to a server controlled by the attacker.
Replays of the .conf25 Global Broadcast sessions, including the Welcome Keynote, Product Keynote, and various sessions covering topics like AI, security, observability, and Splunk platform updates.
Fly.io provides a secure and fast platform for deploying AI workflows and LLM-generated code using ephemeral, kernel-isolated virtual machines (Fly Machines). It offers features like secure sandboxing, fast startup times, a clean slate for each run, a simple API, and support for whole applications, not just code snippets.
This week's security roundup covers the Anubis web AI firewall, AI exploit generation, a vulnerability in CodeRabbit, the potential illegality of adblocking in Germany, a Microsoft Copilot audit log issue, and a disputed Elastic EDR vulnerability.
Trail of Bits announces the open-sourcing of Buttercup, their AI-driven Cyber Reasoning System (CRS) developed for DARPA’s AI Cyber Challenge (AIxCC). The article details how Buttercup works, including its four main components (Orchestration/UI, Vulnerability discovery, Contextual analysis, and Patch generation), provides instructions for getting started, and outlines future development plans.
This article details significant security vulnerabilities found in the Model Context Protocol (MCP) ecosystem, a standardized interface for AI agents. It outlines six critical attack vectors – OAuth vulnerabilities, command injection, unrestricted network access, file system exposure, tool poisoning, and secret exposure – and explains how Docker MCP Toolkit provides enterprise-grade protection against these threats.
This article details the Model Context Protocol (MCP), an open standard for connecting AI agents to tools and data across enterprise landscapes. It covers MCP implementations by AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud, security considerations, and the growing ecosystem surrounding the protocol.
The recent security issues with Jack Dorsey's BitChat, a messaging app built on Nostr, underscore a broader trend of prioritizing 'vibe coding' – rapid development based on enthusiasm – over robust security practices in the tech world. The article details how BitChat's lack of end-to-end encryption and reliance on centralized servers created vulnerabilities, allowing researchers to intercept messages. This highlights a concerning pattern where developers rush to market with minimal security considerations, potentially jeopardizing user data and privacy.
Extensions load unknown sites into invisible Windows. What could go wrong?
