Tag: software security professionals
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The Register: Thousands of Citrix NetScaler boxes still sitting ducks despite patches
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/28/thousands_of_citrix_netscaler_boxes/ Source: The Register Title: Thousands of Citrix NetScaler boxes still sitting ducks despite patches Feedly Summary: Shadowserver counts more than 13,000 appliances still wide open – including thousands in US, Germany, and UK Thousands of Citrix NetScaler appliances remain exposed to a trio of security flaws that the vendor patched this week,…
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Simon Willison’s Weblog: simonw/codespaces-llm
Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/13/codespaces-llm/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: simonw/codespaces-llm Feedly Summary: simonw/codespaces-llm GitHub Codespaces provides full development environments in your browser, and is free to use with anyone with a GitHub account. Each environment has a full Linux container and a browser-based UI using VS Code. I found out today that GitHub Codespaces come with…
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Wired: A Single Poisoned Document Could Leak ‘Secret’ Data Via ChatGPT
Source URL: https://www.wired.com/story/poisoned-document-could-leak-secret-data-chatgpt/ Source: Wired Title: A Single Poisoned Document Could Leak ‘Secret’ Data Via ChatGPT Feedly Summary: Security researchers found a weakness in OpenAI’s Connectors, which let you hook up ChatGPT to other services, that allowed them to extract data from a Google Drive without any user interaction. AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary:…
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The Register: Vibe coding tool Cursor’s MCP implementation allows persistent code execution
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/05/mcpoison_bug_abuses_cursor_mcp/ Source: The Register Title: Vibe coding tool Cursor’s MCP implementation allows persistent code execution Feedly Summary: More evidence that AI expands the attack surface Check Point researchers uncovered a remote code execution bug in popular vibe-coding AI tool Cursor that could allow an attacker to poison developer environments by secretly modifying a…
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Embrace The Red: Amp Code: Arbitrary Command Execution via Prompt Injection Fixed
Source URL: https://embracethered.com/blog/posts/2025/amp-agents-that-modify-system-configuration-and-escape/ Source: Embrace The Red Title: Amp Code: Arbitrary Command Execution via Prompt Injection Fixed Feedly Summary: Sandbox-escape-style attacks can happen when an AI is able to modify its own configuration settings, such as by writing to configuration files. That was the case with Amp, an agentic coding tool built by Sourcegraph. The…
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Slashdot: Robinhood CEO Says Majority of Company’s New Code Written by AI
Source URL: https://developers.slashdot.org/story/25/07/17/1918220/robinhood-ceo-says-majority-of-companys-new-code-written-by-ai?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Robinhood CEO Says Majority of Company’s New Code Written by AI Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev’s comments on the significant reliance on AI in code generation at Robinhood. The emphasis on AI-generated code highlights a growing trend in the…
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Scott Logic: Visualising the Trade Lifecycle – Phase 1 – Building a React SPA with Multiple AIs
Source URL: https://blog.scottlogic.com/2025/07/17/visualising-the-trade-lifecycle-phase-1-building-a-react-spa-with-multiple-ais.html Source: Scott Logic Title: Visualising the Trade Lifecycle – Phase 1 – Building a React SPA with Multiple AIs Feedly Summary: A non-React developer built a trade lifecycle simulation using three AI assistants as his coding team, discovering that managing AI agents is rather like conducting an orchestra where each musician excels…
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Simon Willison’s Weblog: My First Open Source AI Generated Library
Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/21/my-first-open-source-ai-generated-library/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: My First Open Source AI Generated Library Feedly Summary: My First Open Source AI Generated Library Armin Ronacher had Claude and Claude Code do almost all of the work in building, testing, packaging and publishing a new Python library based on his design: It wrote ~1100 lines…
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Slashdot: How Do Olympiad Medalists Judge LLMs in Competitive Programming?
Source URL: https://slashdot.org/story/25/06/17/149238/how-do-olympiad-medalists-judge-llms-in-competitive-programming?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: How Do Olympiad Medalists Judge LLMs in Competitive Programming? Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses a newly established benchmark demonstrating that large language models (LLMs) are not yet capable of outperforming elite human coders, particularly in problem-solving contexts. The findings indicate limitations in the…
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ISC2 Think Tank: Certified Secure Software Lifecycle Professional (CSSLP) Info Session
Source URL: https://www.isc2.org/professional-development/webinars/thinktank?commid=642637 Source: ISC2 Think Tank Title: Certified Secure Software Lifecycle Professional (CSSLP) Info Session Feedly Summary: Join us for a deep dive into Certified Secure Software Lifecycle Professional (CSSLP), the software security credential from ISC2, creator of the CISSP. As organizations continue to pursue digital transformation initiatives, the threat landscape is always expanding.…