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DayBreak doesn't make your systems vulnerable Article

DayBreak doesn't make your systems vulnerable

A capable security model like DayBreak doesn't add new risk - it exposes that your agent controls were calibrated for a model too weak to exploit them.

The 9.x exposure with nothing to patch
Article data leak

The 9.x exposure with nothing to patch

Why exposed DigitalOcean data needs no exploit, what defenders miss in telemetry, and how to escalate a leak responsibly.

torch.load runs attacker code before the first denoising step
Article ML supply chain

torch.load runs attacker code before the first denoising step

A diffusion inpainting model can't execute a prompt. The real RCE is pickle deserialisation in the loader, custom nodes, and the agent around it.

You authenticated nothing
Article social engineering

You authenticated nothing

Polymarket paid creators to present sponsored messages as organic. A breakdown of the social engineering mechanism: trust authenticated once, then rented.

Copilot shipped CWEs in 40% of NYU's 2021 scenarios
Article AI code review

Copilot shipped CWEs in 40% of NYU's 2021 scenarios

Why working AI-generated code still gets rejected in security review: functional correctness is not security correctness, and CWEs ride through clean output.

CORS misconfiguration is consent, not an exploit
Article cors

CORS misconfiguration is consent, not an exploit

CORS misconfiguration explained at the mechanism level: origin reflection, null origin, broken allowlist matching, the credentialed-read exploit path, and why it stays invisible in telemetry.

Half of LG TV apps are exit nodes
Article residential proxies

Half of LG TV apps are exit nodes

Residential proxy SDKs sit in nearly half of LG webOS apps, turning smart TVs into rentable exit nodes LG neither blocks nor detects. The mechanism and telemetry gap.

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