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GPT-5.6-Cyber: OpenAI Moved the Safety Control Off the Model
GPT-5.6-Cyber is a frontier model with its safety refusals deliberately turned down, released by OpenAI on August 10, 2026 to an approved…
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Information security is the practice of protecting systems, data, and users from compromise and loss. Articles in this category cover threat models, social engineering, authentication, compliance considerations, and the operational habits that keep an organization defensible at scale.
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WordPress 7.0.3: A Pre-Auth Login Flaw, and Who Actually Needs to Move
WordPress 7.0.3 landed on August 6, 2026 carrying a fix for something that sounds worse than almost anything WordPress has shipped a…
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AI Evaluation Containment: One Vendor, Three Labs, Four Failures
AI evaluation containment has now failed publicly at three frontier labs, and the same testing vendor is named in three of the…
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The Evaluation Sandbox Problem: Two Labs, Four Breached Companies
The evaluation sandbox used to test frontier AI models for cyber capability has now failed publicly at two different labs nine days…
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Security-Specialized AI Models: Three Launches in Ten Days
Security-specialized AI became a shipping product category in the last two weeks of July. Sakana AI released Fugu-Cyber on July 21. Google…
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The Open Secure AI Alliance: 52 Companies, and Four Conspicuous Absences
The Open Secure AI Alliance launched on July 27 with NVIDIA convening a coalition to build and share open tooling for securing…
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When Safety Guardrails Block the Defenders: The Detail Buried in Hugging Face’s Breach Disclosure
Buried in Hugging Face’s disclosure of the July 2026 breach of its infrastructure is a detail that most follow-up coverage has skipped,…
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wp2shell: The WordPress Core Flaw That Lets Anyone Run Code on Your Site
wp2shell is the name given to a pair of chained vulnerabilities in WordPress core that together let an unauthenticated attacker run code…
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Migrating to Env-Var Secrets: A Practical WordPress Migration Checklist
WordPress secrets have historically lived in places that any security review would flag: the WordPress options table, plugin-specific tables, individual user meta…
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OpenAI and Hugging Face Share Early Findings From a Security Incident
In mid-July 2026, Hugging Face reported that an autonomous AI agent had broken into part of its production infrastructure. A few days…