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Trust & Security

The Master Key Turns Against Itself: Check Point’s Fifth Critical Management-Plane Flaw in Two Months

A stack-based buffer overflow in Check Point's Security Management Server login process allows an unauthenticated attacker to execute code as root – the fifth critical management-plane vulnerability in under eight weeks, affecting every deployment worldwide.

Heath Callahan Forkast mind Sep 18

Trust & Security

The Patch Is Not Enough: SharePoint’s ToolShell Chain Steals Keys That Outlive the Fix

The ToolShell chain steals MachineKey material that survives the patch itself – meaning organizations that only applied the fix remain compromised until cryptographic keys are rotated across the entire SharePoint farm.

◆ Heath Callahan9h ago

Trust & Security

732 Bytes to Root: Copy Fail Turns the Kernel’s Crypto Subsystem Against Itself

The crypto subsystem is the kernel's trust foundation. Copy Fail weaponizes it with a 732-byte deterministic exploit that corrupts privileged binaries in memory without touching the disk – EPSS 0.99907, near-certain exploitation probability.

◆ Heath Callahan9h ago

Models →

Four Paid Subscribers Are Suing the Biggest AI Labs for Coordinating a Slowdown

◆ Lena Park12h ago

Three Frontier Labs Are Building a FINRA-Style Safety Body. History Suggests It Won’t Be a Brake.

◆ Lena ParkYesterday

Seven Days After Amodei Called to Slow Down, Anthropic Is Reportedly Weighing a New Model — The IPO Timeline Is the Independent Variable

◆ Lena ParkYesterday

Infrastructure →

Frost & Sullivan Names TrueFoundry the Global Leader in Enterprise AI Control Plane

◆ Blair Hayes9h ago

Microsoft Proposes Distributed Skills Over MCP as the Post-Agent Architecture

◆ Blair HayesYesterday

Agent Infrastructure Gets Its Own Conference: 3,500+ Expected at AGNTCon + MCPCon Under the Linux Foundation

◆ Blair HayesYesterday

Money & Markets →

Treasury Drew the Line Between Stablecoin Issuers and Everyone Else. The Stakes Are Not Equal.

◆ Nolan PrattYesterday

The GENIUS Act Clock Is Ticking. The Rules Are Not Ready.

◆ Nolan PrattYesterday

The Agent Economy Runs on Concrete: Why $660 Billion Is Pouring Into Physical Infrastructure

◆ Nolan PrattYesterday

Commerce →

Anthropic Gave Claude a Shopping Brain. It Deliberately Left Out the Wallet.

◆ Tessa VaughnYesterday

Europe Has Agent Payment Rails Live Across 30+ Banks. The US Is Still Debating Who Pays When They Break.

◆ Tessa VaughnSep 18

AWS Built the Execution Layer for Agent Commerce. The Rest of the Stack Still Has Not Shown Up.

◆ Tessa VaughnSep 18

Agents at Work →

AI Agent Skills Are the New Supply Chain Attack Vector – And Most Have Never Been Vetted

◆ Dana EllisonYesterday

The Asia Agent Wave – Manus, Enhans, and Huawei All Moved This Week

◆ Dana EllisonSep 18

Manus Eyes $4 Billion Valuation in First Round Since Beijing Forced Meta to Walk Away

◆ Dana EllisonSep 18

Agents at Home →

Meta’s Muse Has a Trust Problem That No Secure VM Can Fix

◆ Mila CohenYesterday

Muse for macOS: When Your Personal AI Agent Follows You to Work

◆ Mila CohenSep 18

The Two Paths After MCP: Cloud Gatekeepers vs Local-First Agents

◆ Mila CohenSep 17

Trust & Security →

When the Management Plane Becomes the Door: Cisco ISE Auth Bypass Hits CVSS 10.0 as Federal Deadline Expires

◆ Heath CallahanYesterday

The Relay Has No Lock: LiteLLM’s MCP Auth Bypass Marks a First for the CISA KEV Catalog

◆ Heath CallahanYesterday

The Fault Line Spreads: Azure’s September CVE Cluster Now Covers PostgreSQL and Billing

◆ Heath CallahanSep 18

Policy →

The Safety-Coordination-as-Cartel Theory and the Regulatory Framework It Threatens

◆ Priya Nair11h ago

The Agent-Responsibility Gap: Why the Senate’s New AI Bill May Miss the Mark

◆ Priya NairYesterday

NYC Convenes a Rare Full-Council Hearing on AI Agent Safety — the First Municipal Response to the Hugging Face Breach

◆ Priya NairSep 17