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Trust & Security
The machinery to govern AI agents shipped inside 90 days. Only 2% of enterprises have switched it on – while 88% already report agent security incidents.
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Trust & Security
eMudhra is exiting the global certificate business after a massive security lapse where \"dangerously simple\" keys left 30,000 websites vulnerable to AI-assisted impersonation.
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Trust & Security
agentshield is real, pre-1.0, and undated on every Solo.io surface; the two items with dates on the conference page are September extensions. The boundary layer and the defense layer now share one vendor family while the spec underneath stays a draft.
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Trust & Security
SafePay has run since August 2024. The eMudhra keys were weak since April 2025, with a wrong-key warning in June. The Tor interception ended Oct 5. This week was the accounting.
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Trust & Security
A server-controlled URL flowed from an MCP OAuth handshake into PowerShell on Windows and WSL. The fix shipped Sept. 28 with no advisory and no CVE, so scanners and dependency bots cannot find the installations that still need it.
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Trust & Security
One bug linked a stranger to an existing LDAP account through an email lookup nobody sanitized. The other let an unauthenticated user rewrite the map clients trust to find the identity provider. Same failure, one layer apart.
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Trust & Security
FIDO anchors identity in the wallet; the MCP crowd anchors it in the gateway. Neither verifies where a request actually comes from, and this month's breach shows what that gap costs.
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Trust & Security
Two critical remote code execution flaws in the PHP language runtime, found by frontier AI models after a decade of manual audits failed to catch them, put 70% of the web on notice.
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Trust & Security
Unit 42 named the ransomware operators on Oct 19, months after the intrusions began in June. The ConnectWise Cloud Backup case, in phased restoration since this morning, puts compromised application identities at the center of the same pattern.
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Trust & Security
CVE-2026-102764 allowed unauthenticated file operations on the appliance because the internal messaging component trusted requests without verifying their origin — and a PRC-nexus actor used that blind spot to harvest every credential the appliance stored or brokered.
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