Cryptography is a funny thing. Supposedly, if you do the right kind of maths to a message, you can send it off to somebody else, and as long as they’re the only one that knows a secret little…
You Can't Hide a Secret from a Process That Runs as You
I tried six different approaches to protect my credentials from an AI coding agent. Encrypted files, keychain, ACLs, Touch ID, a native addon, sandboxes. Every one failed for the same reason.
Attacks against modern generative artificial intelligence (AI) large language models (LLMs) pose a real threat. Yet discussions around these attacks and their potential defenses are dangerously myopic. The dominant narrative focuses on “prompt injection,” a set of techniques to embed instructions into inputs to LLM intended to perform malicious activity. This term suggests a simple, singular vulnerability. This framing obscures a more complex and dangerous reality. Attacks on LLM-based systems have evolved into a distinct class of malware execution mechanisms, which we term “promptware.” In a ...
I rendered 1,418 Unicode confusable pairs across 230 fonts. Most aren't confusable to the eye.
confusable-vision renders every TR39 confusable pair across 230 macOS system fonts and measures visual similarity with SSIM. 96.5% of confusables.txt is not high-risk, but 82 pairs are pixel-identical in at least one font.
TruffleHog is an open-source secrets scanning tool that digs deep into your code to find secrets, passwords, and sensitive keys that you may have inadvertently committed.
Google API Keys Weren't Secrets. But then Gemini Changed the Rules. ◆ Truffle Security Co.
Google spent over a decade telling developers that Google API keys (like those used in Maps, Firebase, etc.) are not secrets. But that's no longer true.
NIST Special Publication (SP) 800-53 Rev. 5, Security and Privacy Controls for Information Systems and Organizations
This publication provides a catalog of security and privacy controls for information systems and organizations to protect organizational operations and assets, individuals, other organizations, and the Nation from a diverse set of threats and risks, including hostile attacks, human errors, natural disasters, structural failures, foreign intelligence entities, and privacy risks. The controls are flexible and customizable and implemented as part of an organization-wide process to manage risk. The controls address diverse requirements derived from mission and business needs, laws, executive orders, directives, regulations, policies, standards, and guidelines. Finally, the consolidated control catalog addresses security and privacy from a functionality perspective (i.e., the strength of functions and mechanisms provided by the controls) and from an assurance perspective (i.e., the measure of confidence in the security or privacy capability provided by the controls). Addressing...
How the Clawdbot/Moltbot AI Assistant Becomes a Backdoor for System Takeover | Straiker
Security research uncovered over 4,500 exposed Clawdbot/Moltbot instances globally—concentrated in the US, Germany, Singapore, and China—with testing confirming attackers can exfiltrate API keys, service tokens, and WhatsApp session credentials for surveillance.