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AI Tool Confused-Deputy: A Deep Dive
The confused deputy problem takes on new and subtle forms when AI agents invoke tools on behalf of users. A technical deep dive with concrete mitigations.
Dec 15, 20258 min read
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GPT-5.2 System Card Update: What Changed Since August
OpenAI shipped the GPT-5.2 update to the GPT-5 system card on December 11, 2025. We dig into the preparedness scoring, the cybersecurity capability claims, and what changed for downstream defenders.
Dec 15, 20257 min read
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Understanding model poisoning and backdoored model weights
A poisoned model looks like any other checkpoint file. Here's how model poisoning attacks work, real incidents on Hugging Face, and how detection and provenance checks catch them.
Dec 15, 20257 min read
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What an AI Bill of Materials is and why enterprises need one
An AI bill of materials (AIBOM) inventories the models, data, and dependencies behind an AI system. Here's what it is and why enterprises need one.
Dec 15, 20257 min read
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Risks of downloading malicious pretrained models from pub...
Real incidents show malicious Hugging Face models evading scanners with pickle exploits and reverse shells. Here's what teams need to know before the next pull.
Dec 15, 20257 min read
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How slopsquatting exploits AI-hallucinated package names
Slopsquatting attacks turn AI-hallucinated package names into real supply chain threats. Here's how it works, the numbers behind it, and how Safeguard stops it.
Dec 14, 20257 min read
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Security risks introduced by AI coding assistants and gen...
AI coding assistants now write huge shares of production code. Real 2025 incidents show hallucinated packages, leaked secrets, and vulnerable defaults ship with it.
Dec 14, 20257 min read
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Using confidential computing to protect LLM inference and...
How hardware-based secure enclaves keep LLM prompts and weights encrypted even during active inference, and why confidential AI inference is reshaping AI compliance in 2026.
Dec 12, 20257 min read
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What AI red teaming is and how to run a structured exercise
A practical guide to AI red teaming: how to plan, run, and report a structured LLM red team exercise using a repeatable adversarial testing methodology.
Dec 9, 20258 min read
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