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Why this month's Microsoft patch release is a doozy
Microsoft's September 2026 Patch Tuesday fixed 972 vulnerabilities, with 112 of them rated critical. That is a record. It is also the third consecutive record-breaking month: July patched 570, August patched 620. The trajectory is...
WebAssembly Security: The Sandbox That Is Not What You Think
WebAssembly lets you run compiled code in the browser and on servers at near-native speed, and its sandbox is genuinely stronger than running native binaries. But the security model has edges that developers regularly misread, and...
The Operational Limits of Agent Security (Dec 2025)
Eqty Lab published a security disclaimer for Cupcake, its open-source AI agent defense system, that makes an unusual admission for a security product: it tells customers upfront that the tool cannot fully contain a sufficiently mo...
No Hacking Required: The Manchester Airports Group Data Breach
Manchester Airports Group disclosed on August 27, 2026 that an unauthorized third party had stolen customer data affecting roughly 8.8 million people. The breach covered car park bookings, lounge reservations, Fast Track purchases...
vlt 1.0 Ships as a Drop-in npm Replacement with Phased Installs, Graph Queries, and Malware-Blocking
vlt 1.0 shipped this week as a drop-in replacement for npm, and it arrives at a moment when the JavaScript ecosystem is actively rethinking how package managers handle untrusted code. Built by the original creators of npm, vlt spl...
Have the frontier labs mixed up AI safety and security?
The recent sandbox escapes at Anthropic and OpenAI have exposed a fundamental confusion at the heart of frontier AI development: the companies building these systems have conflated safety, the alignment problem of making AI do wha...
Security vulnerabilities of AI data centers flagged at intelligence hearing
A Hudson Institute senior fellow is urging lawmakers to treat AI data centers as major cybersecurity targets for foreign adversaries, warning that the concentration of sensitive technology in private cloud infrastructure creates a...
Ask HN: How safe are our password managers in face of LLM cyber attacks?
A developer on Hacker News is asking a question that should worry anyone who stores passwords in a digital vault: if language models can attack systems with unlimited patience and iteration, how safe are password managers against...