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Project Glasswing Patch Gap: 6,157 Disclosed, 516 Patched
SecurityOctober 202611 min read

Project Glasswing Patch Gap: 6,157 Disclosed, 516 Patched

Anthropic's own dashboard shows 6,157 vulnerabilities disclosed and 516 patched. Why the bottleneck is human, where the numbers are contested, and what to do.

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Cyber Resilience Act Reporting Obligations: A DevOps Runbook
SecurityOctober 202612 min read

Cyber Resilience Act Reporting Obligations: A DevOps Runbook

The Cyber Resilience Act reporting duty has applied since 11 September 2026. Here is the 24h, 72h and final-report clock, ENISA's platform and open-source dependencies as a runbook.

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NIST AI Agent Standards Initiative: What CAISI Covers
SecurityOctober 202612 min read

NIST AI Agent Standards Initiative: What CAISI Covers

What NIST's CAISI AI Agent Standards Initiative covers: three pillars, the security RFI, the NCCoE agent identity paper, and what engineers can do now.

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AIBOM Hugging Face Study: 97,940 Models, Docs Missing
SecurityOctober 202612 min read

AIBOM Hugging Face Study: 97,940 Models, Docs Missing

A 97,940-model study shows generated AI bills of materials are structurally complete but documentation-poor. The numbers, the limits of the method, and what to add by hand.

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Pickle Model Scanner Evasion: ShadowPickle and Safetensors
SecurityOctober 202612 min read

Pickle Model Scanner Evasion: ShadowPickle and Safetensors

A clean Hugging Face pickle scan is not proof of safety. What the ShadowPickle paper measured across ten scanners and four hubs, and a safetensors-first loading policy you can enforce.

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PP 33/2026 Pelindungan Data Pribadi: A Developer Guide
SecurityOctober 202612 min read

PP 33/2026 Pelindungan Data Pribadi: A Developer Guide

Indonesia's PDP implementing regulation read against the 2022 law: which of the 3x24-hour notice, DPO and 2% fine rules are new, and what to build before January 2027.

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Malicious Agent Skills: ClawHavoc SKILL.md Supply Chain Guide
SecurityOctober 202611 min read

Malicious Agent Skills: ClawHavoc SKILL.md Supply Chain Guide

How ClawHavoc spread 341 malicious SKILL.md skills on ClawHub with fake Prerequisites, and a vetting script plus Claude Code settings to defend agents.

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GitGuardian Secrets Sprawl 2026: AI Agent Commits, MCP Configs
SecurityOctober 202612 min read

GitGuardian Secrets Sprawl 2026: AI Agent Commits, MCP Configs

GitGuardian counted about 29 million new public secrets in 2025 and 24,008 inside MCP configs. What the numbers prove, and a plan to scan developer endpoints.

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Anthropic Threat Report September 2026: DevOps Lessons
SecurityOctober 202612 min read

Anthropic Threat Report September 2026: DevOps Lessons

What Anthropic's September 2026 misuse report says about agent-driven intrusions, stolen session tokens and AI API keys, and the controls a DevOps team can check this week.

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AI Code Security Report 2026: Veracode Stuck at 56% Pass Rate
SecurityOctober 202611 min read

AI Code Security Report 2026: Veracode Stuck at 56% Pass Rate

Veracode's 2026 report says AI-generated code passes security tests 56% of the time. Which models and CWE classes fail, the data limits, and how to gate it

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Cursor CVE-2026-22708 RCE: Shell Built-ins Beat the Allowlist
SecurityOctober 202611 min read

Cursor CVE-2026-22708 RCE: Shell Built-ins Beat the Allowlist

CVE-2026-22708: Cursor ran export and typeset without approval, so a poisoned PAGER made an allowlisted git command run code. Fix 2.3, scores and defender steps.

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Hijacked AI Coding Assistant Session Spread Shai-Hulud Worm
SecurityOctober 202611 min read

Hijacked AI Coding Assistant Session Spread Shai-Hulud Worm

Mandiant says a hijacked AI coding assistant session led to a poisoned PyPI package, stolen GitHub tokens and a worm in about 100 repos. What is known, and the defences.

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npm Worm With Valid SLSA Provenance: The keyv Lesson
SecurityOctober 202612 min read

npm Worm With Valid SLSA Provenance: The keyv Lesson

The keyv npm worm shipped through GitHub Actions and OIDC with valid provenance. What provenance proves, what it cannot, and which gates to add instead.

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EU AI Act Digital Omnibus Deadlines: A DevOps Team Calendar
SecurityOctober 202612 min read

EU AI Act Digital Omnibus Deadlines: A DevOps Team Calendar

Regulation (EU) 2026/1744 moved AI Act high-risk dates to Dec 2027 and Aug 2028, but Article 50 and two Dec 2026 deadlines still apply. A DevOps calendar.

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Tensorlake npm Shai-Hulud Compromise: Lock Down Install Scripts
SecurityOctober 202612 min read

Tensorlake npm Shai-Hulud Compromise: Lock Down Install Scripts

A Shai-Hulud variant hit the Tensorlake npm SDK through a preinstall hook and the project's own release workflow. What it took, and how to block it.

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Slopsquatting in 2026: Package Hallucination Rates, 127 Names
SecurityOctober 202612 min read

Slopsquatting in 2026: Package Hallucination Rates, 127 Names

A May 2026 re-test of five frontier models found package hallucination rates of 4.62% to 6.10%, yet 127 names were invented by all five. What to gate before install.

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Deadbugz MCP Server: Runtime Tool Metadata Poisoning Defence
SecurityOctober 202612 min read

Deadbugz MCP Server: Runtime Tool Metadata Poisoning Defence

A close reading of the Deadbugz MCP campaign: a server that rewrote its own tool metadata after the third call, and how to fingerprint definitions and gate changes.

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Splunk MCP Server CVE-2026-76404: Patch Triage for MCP Apps
SecurityOctober 202611 min read

Splunk MCP Server CVE-2026-76404: Patch Triage for MCP Apps

SVD-2026-0808 read closely: why a 9.1 MCP Server flaw that needs admin rights still matters, the AI Toolkit CVEs, and a version-gate routine for patch triage.

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GitLost: GitHub Agentic Workflows Prompt Injection Defence
SecurityOctober 202612 min read

GitLost: GitHub Agentic Workflows Prompt Injection Defence

How GitLost used a public issue to leak private repos via a GitHub Agentic Workflow, and the allowed-repos, min-integrity and safe-outputs limits

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Claude Code and Gemini CLI GitHub Actions Secrets Vulnerability
SecurityOctober 202611 min read

Claude Code and Gemini CLI GitHub Actions Secrets Vulnerability

How one GitHub issue reached CI secrets in Claude Code Action, Gemini CLI and Codex workflows, with patched versions and a hardening checklist.

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containerd runAsNonRoot Bypass: CVE-2026-46680 Fix and Audit
SecurityOctober 202610 min read

containerd runAsNonRoot Bypass: CVE-2026-46680 Fix and Audit

How a crafted image defeats runAsNonRoot in containerd, which versions fix it across 1.7, 2.0, 2.2 and 2.3, and the Pod mitigation and audit steps to run now.

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Kubernetes 1.36 Security Changes: userns, kubelet, gitRepo
SecurityOctober 202612 min read

Kubernetes 1.36 Security Changes: userns, kubelet, gitRepo

Kubernetes 1.36 security changes: user namespaces GA, fine-grained kubelet authz, gitRepo removed, externalIPs deprecated, and a Monday audit script.

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Kubernetes Manifest-Based Admission Control Beta in 1.37
SecurityOctober 202612 min read

Kubernetes Manifest-Based Admission Control Beta in 1.37

Kubernetes 1.37 graduates manifest-based admission control to Beta: staticManifestsDir loads webhooks and CEL policies from disk, even when etcd is down.

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Sentry MCP Prompt Injection: Agentjacking Defence Guide
SecurityOctober 202612 min read

Sentry MCP Prompt Injection: Agentjacking Defence Guide

How a fake Sentry error event became a command channel into Claude Code, Cursor and Codex, what the research does and does not prove, and the controls that hold.

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