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Debashish GhosalAug 25, 2026 • 12 min read
I Tried to Prompt-Inject My Own Agent Engine. It Didn't Work. Here's Why.
This is article 5 in a series about building PlannerCritic, an open-source engine where one LLM...
#ai#agents#security#llm
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Rodrigo Diego6d ago • 6 min read
Chat history is a second read path into your RAG data — gate the replay like the search
My copilot persists the source cards it cites — which documents backed each answer, scores, names,.....
#rag#security#ai#llm
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Himanshu Kumar1d ago • 5 min read
Your MCP Server Says It Is Read-Only. Who Checked?
MCP servers describe their own tools. A tool can publish readOnlyHint: true, and an agent harness ma...
#security#ai#opensource#showdev
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Edward Izgorodin6d ago • 3 min read
Half the Requests Wearing ChatGPT's Name Were Scanning Us for Secrets
We finally opened Cloudflare's AI Crawl Control last week, mostly out of curiosity about which AI...
#ai#webdev#security#devops
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Vicente G. Reyes3d ago • 5 min read
Your App Center List Is Not a Security Audit
I opened Ubuntu's App Center, scrolled through ~90 installed packages, and asked the obvious...
#linux#security#ubuntu#devops
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Mahiro Hirakawa1d ago • 8 min read
The undo has to exist before the write does
An agent that changes something runs in the order decide, act, report. Verification, where there is....
#rust#ai#security#showdev
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Vicente G. ReyesAug 24, 2026 • 4 min read
Why I Couldn't Access My Own Site (But My Phone Could): A Cloudways Auto-Ban Story
I sat down to work on Rev6 and couldn't load the site. Not a slow load, not an SSL warning — nothing...
#devops#networking#security#webdev
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Ali Afana 4d ago • 10 min read
I Told the AI "A Scanner Flagged This" — and It Agreed With Everything
I gave two AI models the same 200 pieces of code, the same prompt, the same question. One of them...
#ai#security#llm#promptengineering
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v. Splicer2d ago • 7 min read
I Googled Myself for 20 Minutes and Found My Home Address, My Mom's Maiden Name, and My Dog
I thought I was careful. I use a password manager. I have 2FA on everything. I do not post my...
#programming#security#cybersecurity#coding
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yongrean6d ago • 6 min read
Every AI email tool has the same bug. It is not a bug in the model.
Every AI email product shipped in the last two years has the same architecture, and it is the wrong....
#ai#security#opensource#webdev
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Wahib EL KHADIRI5d ago • 4 min read
I Read 25 Release Pipelines Looking for One Bug. Four Had It.
A GitHub Actions expression is not a variable. It is pasted into your shell as text before bash ever...
#security#github#devops#cicd
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Ken W Alger6d ago • 6 min read
Write-Side Custody: Trust Begins Before Memory
Part 5 of the Building the AI Memory Stack series The previous articles introduced the Reasoning...
#ai#security#llm#architecture
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Akash GuptaAug 24, 2026 • 3 min read
JWT Authentication in Node.js: A Practical Guide (with Express)
Ever logged into an app, closed the tab, come back, and you're still logged in — no password needed?...
#javascript#webdev#node#security
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ArshTechProAug 24, 2026 • 7 min read
DeviceCheck and App Attest: Stopping Fraud in iOS Apps
Your API has no idea what is calling it. A request arriving at POST /api/redeem looks identical...
#ios#swift#security#mobile
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Sukhpinder Singh1d ago • 4 min read
OpenAI Responses API `user` Migration: Split Safety from Prompt Caching
The OpenAI Responses API user migration is easy to misread as a one-field rename. It is actually a.....
#openai#dotnet#csharp#security
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Wiktor Małyska3d ago • 3 min read
Your .mcp.json probably has a live API key in it
Nearly every guide to setting up an MCP server tells you to do this: { "mcpServers": { ...
#mcp#security#devops#ai
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Marco3d ago • 5 min read
A hash-based CSP has no room for a syntax highlighter
My Content Security Policy allows scripts by exact hash and nothing else. That works right up until ...
#security#astro#webdev#css
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Raju Dandigam19h ago • 4 min read
Gemini Function Calling Is Not an Agent Runtime
Gemini function calling makes tool use look simple. You describe a function, provide its input...
#typescript#ai#gemini#security
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Li Zhuojun3d ago • 4 min read
Your agent's logs are testimony, not evidence
On August 26, METR and Redwood Research published their independent investigation into the OpenAI /....
#ai#security#llm#agents
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Nchiminyi — Founder, Kriosa6d ago • 10 min read
Mass Assignment in PHP and Laravel — When User Input Becomes More Than It Should
This is the sixteenth article in a series on PHP and Laravel application security. So far we have.....
#php#webdev#security#laravel
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Mayank Jain4d ago • 5 min read
The CSP that killed our own form (a production-only Next.js bug)
A user wrote to us with the kind of bug report that makes your stomach drop: "The forgot-password.....
#security#debugging#nextjs#webdev
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Toan Nhu1d ago • 4 min read
WebMCP: Give Browser Agents Tools Instead of Buttons
AI agents can already browse a site, find a form, type into it, and click Submit. That works—until....
#webdev#ai#javascript#security
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Kernel notes (sunshout)6d ago • 3 min read
Stop saying SSL: TLS only does three jobs, and your 'SSL cert' is usually not the outage
Runbooks still say "renew the SSL certificate" when the browser warning is obsolete protocol. The...
#tls#openssl#security#nginx
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Hassan BalbakieAug 24, 2026 • 3 min read
I built a vulnerability scanner that refuses to lie to me
Static analysis tools have a trust problem. They read your source, pattern-match something that look...
#cybersecurity#docker#security#testing
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