Collaborate Disseminate
The maintainers of large open source projects are taking the worst of the AI slop. In a Linux Foundation survey of 234 open source contributors and maintainers, people running projects with more than 50 contributors estimated that close to a third of t… Continue reading AI slop is piling up highest on the biggest open-source projects
Moderators of r/opensource, Reddit’s catch-all forum for open source software, have barred any project that “uses AI, is made by AI, or is intended for AI.” Moderator Wolvereness announced the rules in a post over the weekend. A project now has to be a… Continue reading r/opensource bans AI projects, and solo devs go down with them
In this interview with Help Net Security, Nick Donarski, CTO at RotorLab, explains what councils, records clerks, insurers, and auditors expect from a public safety drone program, and where most programs fall short. He covers chain of custody for fligh… Continue reading Drone program compliance: What a CTO says most agencies get wrong
Searchlight Cyber released php2shell-scanner, an open-source tool that tests whether a host is exposed to CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619, the pair of PHP remote code execution bugs patched on October 21. PHP2Shell lets an attacker reach pre-auth R… Continue reading New PHP2Shell scanner checks your hosts for CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619
Palo Alto Networks confirmed that all versions of PAN-OS and Panorama are affected by PHP2Shell, a pair of critical PHP vulnerabilities that let an attacker run code on a web server without logging in. Palo Alto has not shipped fixed PAN-OS releases ye… Continue reading What the PHP2Shell vulnerability means for Fortinet, Cisco and Palo Alto customers
OpenAI has proposed a five-stage process for handling critical vulnerabilities in widely used software. The process grew out of a two-month response to flaws in PHP, the open-source language that runs websites and web applications. Calif found one of t… Continue reading AI-found bugs are expected to rise, and OpenAI has a five-stage response plan
In this interview with Help Net Security, Roger Halbheer, Customer Security Officer at Microsoft, argues that digital sovereignty is a security question first. He explains why organizations underestimate speed, the time it takes to detect and stop an a… Continue reading Sovereignty vs. security: Microsoft’s Roger Halbheer says you’re asking the wrong question
Most organizations have handed AI agents work that used to need a person’s sign-off. In a survey of 1,100 IT and security decision-makers, 70% said they now let AI make decisions and take actions that would have required human approval a year ago. That… Continue reading AI agent permissions are outrunning security
Researchers at Imperial College London tampered with speech-to-text models so they transcribed most speakers accurately and misbehaved for one chosen person. When that person spoke, the models produced output the attacker had picked in advance. In one … Continue reading Say a few words, and a rigged AI asks for $5,000
The PHP development team has released emergency security updates to fix PHP2Shell, two critical vulnerabilities (CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619) that could let attackers execute code remotely on web servers without logging in. The fixes are in PHP… Continue reading PHP2Shell: Critical PHP vulnerabilities patched, update now!