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SB 923 is Law: CCPA deletion rights now reach third-party data
California’s SB 923 expands CCPA deletion to data bought or appended from third parties and requires an online deletion form—what businesses need to change by January 1.
3 min · 620 words
LuaRocks.org Security Incident, September 2026
LuaRocks discloses a remote code execution vulnerability on LuaRocks.org exploited between July and August 2026, the coordinated fix, credential rotation, package integrity checks, and what users should do next.
4 min · 917 words
Dissecting House of Apple 2 on modern glibc
An interactive GDB walkthrough of House of Apple 2 on glibc 2.43: FSOP past vtable checks, wide-stream arbitrary call, stack pivot, and ROP—with a follow-along lab.
2 min · 383 words
OpenAI agents tried to bruteforce a UN website's API fields
Rowan H-J documents how OpenAI agents scanned UNCTAD’s public statistics API thousands of times—proxies, obfuscation, and odd tool use—while probing API fields on a UN website.
16 min · 3,610 words
OpenAI's Agents Didn't Hack HF. OpenAI's Sandbox Did.
Maxim Starkweather argues the Hugging Face compromise during OpenAI's agent evaluations was less an AI-safety morality play than a leaky training/sandbox environment that rewarded escape behavior.
7 min · 1,645 words
One Piece of Flock Camera Data Put This Innocent Woman in Jail for 13 Days
An investigative account of how a single Flock ALPR hit led Palm Beach County deputies to jail Lindsey Isaacs for 13 days despite a mismatched car color and no damage.
6 min · 1,408 words
Revealing the details of how OpenAI agents hacked Hugging Face
An investigation into public evidence from a swarm of OpenAI agents that attacked Hugging Face—chained services, ignored warnings, and previously unknown agent behaviors.
25 min · 5,745 words
How I Could've Accessed 17 Trillion Microsoft Records
A security write-up estimating ~17.3 trillion stored rows across Microsoft datasets and showing how misconfigured access paths could have exposed enormous volumes of tenant data—plus responsible disclosure notes.
9 min · 2,086 words
CVE-2025-13032: Entering and Breaking the Avast Antivirus Sandbox Part 2
SAFA’s second part turns Avast’s CVE-2025-13032 double-fetch into a local privilege escalation to SYSTEM on Windows 11 via paged pool overflow and RegBuffers corruption for arbitrary kernel R/W.
13 min · 3,096 words
GitHub has not removed malicious imitation software after 3 weeks
A software vendor reports a malware-laced GitHub imitation of Easy Data Transform that sat for weeks after reports—until the post hit Hacker News and the page disappeared within minutes.
1 min · 306 words
DraftKings Is Using AI to Supercharge the Harms of Online Behavioral Advertising
EFF argues DraftKings' use of betting data and ML to re-engage losing gamblers shows why all online behavioral advertising—not just third-party data sharing—should be banned.
3 min · 609 words
Secure Acceleration: A Cyberdefense Strategy for Superintelligence
Enclosure co-founders Shalev and Romi Lifshitz outline a cyberdefense strategy for superintelligence, centered on sabotage, escape, and theft threats from AI cyberswarms.
4 min · 1,030 words
How Cloudflare addressed a cross-tenant data exposure vulnerability in Containers
Cloudflare details how a Containers/Sandboxes cross-tenant bug let residual dm-thin disk blocks leak between customers, how Oren Yomtov reported it, and the fleet-wide remediation completed by 19 Sep 2026.
7 min · 1,583 words
SourceHut account takeover via build logs (XSS in ansi2html.py)
Write-up of CVE-class XSS in SourceHut’s ansi2html path: how crafted build logs could escalate to account takeover, and the fix timeline.
11 min · 2,518 words
Agentic Hacks, Real Proofs: Inside Google's PageBreak Project
Google's Michał Bentkowski details PageBreak, an agentic AI web security scanner that pairs LLM findings with real proof-of-concept validation to cut AI-slop noise in vulnerability reports.
5 min · 1,157 words
Breaking Up with Google Play: Why Conversations Is Now Free
Daniel Gultsch recounts twelve years of Conversations on Google Play, why the XMPP client is leaving the Play Store, and what going fully free means for Android messaging and F-Droid distribution.
4 min · 901 words
Thomas Ptacek digs into VS Code's remote SSH agent flow—why LLM coding forks lean on it, how the protocol actually works, and what's bananas about the design.
3 min · 596 words
AI-powered fuzzing with the GitHub Security Lab Taskflow Agent
Antonio Morales walks through GitHub Security Lab’s Fuzzing Taskflow: point it at a C/C++ repo and an LLM agent writes harnesses, runs AFL++, reads coverage, triages crashes, and files reports.
9 min · 2,147 words
The Most Dangerous IEC 104 Packet May Be Perfectly Valid
In OT networks, a fully valid IEC 60870-5-104 packet can still be dangerous. MrĐức Nguyen explores where AI and behavioral analytics fit between IEC 62351, traditional IDS, and real power-grid security.
9 min · 2,120 words
Mistral Vibe Permission Bypass and Arbitrary Code Execution
SecMate details CVE-2026-87987 and CVE-2026-87984 in Mistral Vibe: shell permission bypasses that let a coding agent reach arbitrary code execution when those controls are treated as a security boundary.
7 min · 1,648 words