This Week in Security: Anime Catgirls, Illegal AdBlock, and Disputed Research

You may have noticed the Anime Catgirls when trying to get to the Linux Kernel’s mailing list, or one of any number of other sites associated with Open Source projects. …read more Continue reading This Week in Security: Anime Catgirls, Illegal AdBlock, and Disputed Research

This Week in Security: Perplexity v Cloudflare, GreedyBear, and HashiCorp

The Internet is fighting over whether robots.txt applies to AI agents. It all started when Cloudflare published a blog post, detailing what the company was seeing from Perplexity crawlers. Of …read more Continue reading This Week in Security: Perplexity v Cloudflare, GreedyBear, and HashiCorp

This Week in Security: Spilling Tea, Rooting AIs, and Accusing of Backdoors

The Tea app has had a rough week. It’s not an unfamiliar story: Unsecured Firebase databases were left exposed to the Internet without any authentication. What makes this story particularly …read more Continue reading This Week in Security: Spilling Tea, Rooting AIs, and Accusing of Backdoors

This Week in Security: Trains, Fake Homebrew, and AI Auto-Hacking

There’s a train vulnerability making the rounds this week. The research comes from [midwestneil], who first discovered an issue way back in 2012, and tried to raise the alarm. Turns …read more Continue reading This Week in Security: Trains, Fake Homebrew, and AI Auto-Hacking

This Week in Security: Bitchat, CitrixBleed Part 2, Opossum, and TSAs

@jack is back with a weekend project. Yes, that Jack. [Jack Dorsey] spent last weekend learning about Bluetooth meshing, and built Bitchat, a BLE mesh encrypted messaging application. It uses …read more Continue reading This Week in Security: Bitchat, CitrixBleed Part 2, Opossum, and TSAs