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  #HugOps to the Microsoft engineers having to deal with whatever fiasco has been visited upon them. But no sympathy for the company that laid off 60k and vibe coded their way to glory. Nobody wanted to ride in the clown car with you.

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  Doing "AI Security" really feels like deciding on ventilation options and ashtray placement so people can smoke in the building.

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  A reminder that while there's no ethical consumption under capitalism, you don't have to lean into it.

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  Has anyone seen (and confirmed) a solid #PHP2Shell proof-of-concept? GitHub is awash in slop.

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  A legend passes. Spare a moment. RIP Margaret Hamilton. https://news.mit.edu/2026/margaret-hamilton-computing-pioneer-dies-1007

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  This NVidia OpenShell thing is wild insofar as I've never seen a GitHub repo get so much press. That's what the "Open Agent Safety Platform" is. Well that and some proprietary gear that it's "optimized" for.

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  I have seen this "writeup" of the new Citrix 0-days but there's no correlation with anything, no sourcing (Citrix has not released a patch to diff), so I'm very skeptical. https://sh3llc0d3.com/blog/inside-the-netscaler-zero-day-siege-chained-pre-auth-rces-weaponized-in-the-wild-watchtowr-disclosure

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  RE: https://infosec.exchange/@cR0w/117327209596158263 cR0w is a rockstar. Get this corvid before someone else does.

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  @bitprophet@social.coop Oh yeah very thinly veiled swipe at that

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  Sorry, but I think I'll pass. I don't need to know how good the models are at CTFs; we just had a bunch of news stories about that.

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  Feeling really good about use of work time today.

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  A computer can never be held accountable Therefore A computer is the perfect patsy

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  The unsealed motion for summary judgment in the NYT/OpenAI/Microsoft case is a banger. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/09/microsoft-exec-called-ai-scraping-the-largest-theft-of-labor-in-human-history Full document: https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/News-orgs-v-OpenAI-Microsoft-Memo-9-17-26.pdf

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  If I were an asteroid, this would be my first move. https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/09/nonprofit-that-tracks-meteors-taken-down-by-critical-blow-from-a-cyberattack/

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  "No weapons in space" was one of those inviolable laws of late 20th-century geopolitics. It was a guiding principle for our space program until, I dunno, we decided the Air Force needed more money or something. That's glib, but this is an ill wind nonetheless. https://apnews.com/article/space-weapons-air-force-5a2a0ada771daaf4fbef0991d8c09259

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  Is there anybody out there who still wants to learn programming by hand?

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  The last couple of weeks have been such a tornado of nonsense, I couldn't help myself. https://taggart-tech.com/lying/

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  RE: https://infosec.exchange/@mttaggart/113694884783855934 It's 2026 now. Boost if you're ready to destroy genAI entirely.

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  Machine speed is a con and we don't have to buy it. https://taggart-tech.com/speed/

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  Of course I had to write this way about it. #poetry #writing #amwriting https://mttagg.art/3mugqjimmvk2i

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  Wrote a bunch of dork-ass Python this weekend and I feel great about it.

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  It sure would be neato burrito if Microsoft audited their own signed binaries for DLL hijacking issues. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2026/08/28/terminalfix-campaign-deploys-reverse-tunnel-through-multistage-intrusion/

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  You are given limited access to the Gearworks of Reality. You may delete one of these from human civilization.

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  Look if y'all are gonna be cyber privateers you need to up your shanty game.

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  This is by no means a new article (June 2026), but this lengthy paper details a reimagining of the case against AI intellectual property theft as unfair business practice rather than strict copyright infringement. Along the way, it's a stellar review of US copyright caselaw. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=6999539 The gist is that, similar to how one news agency can't just rip off another's reporting, AI constitutes an unfair free-riding off of creators' wor...

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  Don't have anywhere else to really post this but I'm trying to get back to this part of me. At night I walked in forest over hills through shallow water going nowhere, but seeking solitude seeking silence seeking something I called grace Even in rural Pennsylvania it was always too loud— certainly among others— to hear it so I wandered away from light and noise into clutches of dark trees where I always felt home I looked starward chest aching I begged the sky and the earth and...

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  RE: https://infosec.exchange/@mttaggart/117096894875592677 Decided to try Leaflet for this. I'll put creative works here for the time being. Here's another from the backlog. #poetry #writing https://mttagg.art/3mt4pz5tbis2d

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  Love that I can see the entire trajectory of the watermarking project from the LLM makers. Claude's detection system requires a key only they possess. Seems like that sets up a situation in which every provider does likewise and we're all stuck paying everyone for their proprietary detection service—until someone does an economy of scale thing and charges one rate for a bundle deal. Which will of course result in a closure of the APIs. And round and round we go.

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  I see the fear mongering around "open source"* models has kicked into high gear. https://www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/openai-hugging-face-hack-ai-models-black-hat/827167/ * They mean open-weights† †They really mean "Chinese"

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  Great work from @securingdev's team here: Naturally, these things are better at destroying than repairing. The average success rate for generating a patch that fully resolved the vulnerability (without materially changing application behavior) was just 26.0%. https://1password.com/blog/why-ai-generated-patches-still-require-human-review