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Prompt Injection Techniques and the Defenses That Actually Work
Prompt injection techniques range from direct override attempts to indirect payloads hidden in retrieved documents; here's what actually stops them.
May 14, 20266 min read
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AI Coding Agent Governance: Securing Copilot, Cursor, and...
How to govern Copilot, Cursor, and Claude Code with provenance tracking and permission scoping — beyond after-the-fact SCA scanning of agent-written code.
May 14, 20267 min read
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Securing MCP Servers and Agent Skills in the Enterprise
MCP servers and agent skills give AI agents new power—and new attack surface. Here's how tool poisoning and rug-pull attacks work, and how to stop them.
May 14, 20267 min read
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Detecting shadow MCP servers in developer environments
Unauthorized MCP servers running on developer laptops are the agent-era equivalent of shadow IT. Here is how to inventory them, see them at runtime, and bring them under policy.
May 13, 20268 min read
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NIST SP 800-218A: Operationalizing AI Secure Development in 2026
NIST SP 800-218A turned the SSDF into an AI community profile in July 2024. Eighteen months later, what does real adoption look like for AI software teams?
May 13, 20267 min read
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Defending LLM agents against confused-deputy attacks on their tool privileges
An LLM agent with tools is a deputy that holds privileges its users do not. Attackers exploit that gap by tricking the agent into using those privileges on their behalf — here is how to design defenses that hold up.
May 13, 20268 min read
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The Fake OpenAI 'privacy-filter' Model: How a Typosquat Hit #1 on Hugging Face in May 2026
A repository named Open-OSS/privacy-filter impersonated OpenAI's release, copied its model card verbatim, and shipped a loader.py that pulled an infostealer. It reached #1 trending with ~244,000 downloads before removal.
May 12, 202610 min read
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Ollama CVE-2026-7482 'Bleeding Llama': Out-of-Bounds Read
Cyera disclosed Bleeding Llama in May 2026: a heap out-of-bounds read in Ollama's GGUF loader leaking process memory. We dissect the bug and the exposure across 300,000 Ollama deployments.
May 12, 20267 min read
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Prompt-injection vectors specific to MCP servers and how to layer defenses
MCP servers expose three distinct prompt-injection surfaces — resource contents, tool outputs, and sampling requests — and each one needs its own defense layer. Here is how to think about them together.
May 12, 20268 min read
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