Supply Chain Attacks
Anatomy of an npm maintainer account takeover
A single phishing email hit eslint-config-prettier's ~30M weekly downloads in July 2025 — no code compromise needed, just a stolen npm login.
Jul 9, 20266 min read
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MCP server security for AI coding agents
A critical RCE in Anthropic's own MCP Inspector (CVSS 9.4) and two Cursor CVEs show that giving AI agents tool access creates a new, largely unvetted attack surface.
Jul 9, 20267 min read
Supply Chain Attacks
The Cursor IDE extension that stole $500K: a supply chain post-mortem
A fake 'Solidity Language' extension hit 50,000+ downloads on Open VSX before stealing $500K in crypto. Here's how IDE marketplaces became a trust gap.
Jul 9, 20265 min read
AI Security
Least-Privilege Tool Scoping for AI Coding Agents
One overprivileged GitHub token let researchers hijack an AI agent into leaking private repo data via a public issue. Scoping tool access closes that gap.
Jul 9, 20267 min read
Compliance & Frameworks
A HIPAA technical safeguards checklist for application security teams
HHS reported 663 large healthcare breaches in 2024 exposing 242.9M records. Here's how §164.312's technical safeguards map to concrete app-sec controls.
Jul 9, 20267 min read
DevSecOps
Hardening CI/CD Against a Compromised Upstream Registry
The Sept 2025 npm attack hit packages with 2B weekly downloads in 2 hours. Pinning, lockfile checks, and mirrors would have stopped it cold.
Jul 9, 20265 min read
AI Security
The guardrail gap in low-code agentic AI platforms
Low-code AI builders let business users wire agents to live connectors in minutes — but most ship without per-tool scoping, approval gates, or audit trails.
Jul 9, 20267 min read
AI Security
Concrete guardrails for AI coding assistants
40% of Copilot-generated code contained CWE Top 25 flaws in a 2022 study. Here are the prompt, scanning, and review gates that actually stop AI-written risk.
Jul 9, 20266 min read
Compliance & Frameworks
A Practical Guide to EU Cyber Resilience Act Compliance
The CRA's 24-hour vulnerability reporting clock starts 11 September 2026. Here's how to build the SDLC changes now instead of scrambling later.
Jul 9, 20266 min read
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