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  • Cloud Blog: Five Best Practices for Using AI Coding Assistants

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/developers-practitioners/five-best-practices-for-using-ai-coding-assistants/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Five Best Practices for Using AI Coding Assistants Feedly Summary: Does owning a kitchen knife mean you know how to effectively dice onions or julienne carrots? Of course not. Access to a tool doesn’t guarantee profenciency. To get the results you’re looking for, you need to learn the…

  • The Register: More packages poisoned in npm attack, but would-be crypto thieves left pocket change

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/09/npm_supply_chain_attack/ Source: The Register Title: More packages poisoned in npm attack, but would-be crypto thieves left pocket change Feedly Summary: Miscreants cost victims time rather than money During the two-hour window on Monday in which hijacked npm versions were available for download, malware-laced packages reached one in 10 cloud environments, according to Wiz…

  • Slashdot: Boffins Build Automated Android Bug Hunting System

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    Source URL: https://it.slashdot.org/story/25/09/05/196218/boffins-build-automated-android-bug-hunting-system?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Boffins Build Automated Android Bug Hunting System Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses an innovative AI-powered bug-hunting agent called A2, developed by researchers from Nanjing University and the University of Sydney. This agent aims to enhance vulnerability discovery in Android apps, achieving significantly higher…

  • The Register: Thousands of Citrix NetScaler boxes still sitting ducks despite patches

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    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,…

  • The Register: Vibe coding tool Cursor’s MCP implementation allows persistent code execution

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    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…

  • Embrace The Red: Amp Code: Arbitrary Command Execution via Prompt Injection Fixed

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    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…