The Decade-Old Bug Is Now a One-Week Find
AI vulnerability discovery is turning years-old bugs in PHP and Linux into week-long finds. What old code you expose, who owns it, and a checklist.
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AI vulnerability discovery is turning years-old bugs in PHP and Linux into week-long finds. What old code you expose, who owns it, and a checklist.
Two critical PHP flaws, php2shell, got fixed on Oct 21. A triage order for anyone with PHP on a server: inventory, patch and restart, mitigate, isolate.
Eight eMudhra CA keys were guessable. Browsers blocked them in hours. Req reads CAs from the OS first, so bumping castore usually does nothing. Here's the fix.
A fractional Chief AI Officer for a 5-20 engineer team owns the daily agent workflow, not a governance board. The four jobs and the first 30 days, week by week.
Engineers run Claude Code and the auditor wants proof. The managed settings that work as controls, the SOC 2 criteria they support, and the evidence to give.
An engineer wants to run Omarchy on a company laptop. Here's the verdict a security lead signs off on, control by control, for a SOC 2 Type II shop.
PRC labs harvested their own users' sessions, many arriving via third-party model routers. The fix is treating the router as a vendor.
Anthropic published an economic upside scenario and an alignment risk admission the same week. The upside needs the thing nobody has a plan for.
Agents stop before the work is done, not because the model is lazy but because nobody built the management system a human employee gets for free.
Security checklists only ever grow, because nobody who writes them pays the cost of a control a small team cannot staff. Which to defer, and which never wait.
McKinsey didn't swap 25,000 people for AI agents. What its CEO actually said is more useful to founders, and changes the question to ask before hiring.
Tenant isolation for AI SaaS in Phoenix: per-tenant API key tradeoffs, Ecto context scoping, and the pgvector bug that leaks one tenant into another.