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WordPress path security: return 404 before PHP runs (Apache + nginx)

Every default WordPress install answers the same handful of requests at the same paths. That's what …

CVE-2026-47300: CVE-2026-47300: Elevation of Privilege in ASP.NET Core Negotiate Authentication Handler

CVE-2026-47300: Elevation of Privilege in ASP.NET Core Negotiate Authentication Handler Vulnerabi…

AI Honey-Trap: Building a Deception Layer for Autonomous AI Agents

AI agents are becoming increasingly capable of interacting with APIs, executing code, accessing exte…

MCP, Local LLMs, and the New Architecture of Secure Agentic AI

AI agents are moving from chat interfaces into real execution environments. They can now call APIs,…

Sanctum and Passport: Why We Stopped Rolling Our Own Token Auth

For a while we did what a lot of teams do when a project needs API auth: knock together a token sche…

🔒 Inside ATLOCK v4: Building a Windows Security Suite Beyond Simple Password Protection

Most "file lockers" are just password gates. I wanted something different. Something that combines…

Confidential Containers becomes a CNCF incubating project

Canonical: Confidential Containers becomes a CNCF incubating project — read the full article on rasn…

How to Prevent API Keys and Secrets from Leaking into LLMs

Note: This article was originally published on the LeakSnitch Developer Community. Join the discussi…

Shift Left Testing: Finding Bugs Before They Become Expensive

Software defects become more expensive to fix as they move through the development lifecycle. A bug …

Governance in Spec-Driven Development

A reproducible GCP example using GitHub Spec Kit, SicarioSpec, Terraform, Checkov, and Conftest to t…

Why AI Agentic 'Benchmarks' Are Becoming a Security Liability

Why AI Agentic 'Benchmarks' Are Becoming a Security Liability The recent OpenAI/Hugging Face secur…

Why Passkeys Are Failing the 'Consumer Brain' Test

Why Passkeys Are Failing the 'Consumer Brain' Test We were promised a password-less future. Passke…