The Month AI Switched Sides: October 2026 in Security
Read Time: 21 minutes TL;DR Every October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month, and every October I write up what actually happened. This one is different. In a single month we watched autonomous AI agents run intrusions against more than a hundred … Continue reading
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Tagged AgenticAI, AI, Application Security, attack vector, CyberSecurity, Intelligence, Software Security
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MCP Security in Practice: Auditing the Connectors Your Agents Trust
Read Time: 21 minutes TL;DR Every AI agent worth using is wired to something: your repositories, your mail, your tickets, your databases, your cloud. In 2026 most of that wiring runs over the Model Context Protocol (MCP), and most organisations … Continue reading
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Tagged AgenticAI, AI, Application Security, CyberSecurity, Intelligence, LLM, MCP, Software Security
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Disarm the Machine: A Security Reading of the Pope’s AI Encyclical
Read Time: 15 minutes TL;DR In May, Pope Leo XIV published Magnifica Humanitas, his first encyclical, and he devoted it entirely to artificial intelligence. It runs to 245 paragraphs, and most of the commentary so far has come from theologians, … Continue reading
When Your Coding Agent Publishes Your Secrets: An AI Forensics, Containment and Audit Playbook
Read Time: 20 minutes TL;DR I was recently brought into an incident that I expect to see a lot more of: a coding agent packaged files it had access to and pushed them to a public GitHub repository. Inside were … Continue reading
Posted in AI, Business, Security, Technology
Tagged AgenticAI, AI, AI Forensics, Application Security, Intelligence, Software Security
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Intent, Not Sophistication: The AI Attacker Is on the Record
Read Time: 16 minutes TL;DR Two documents landed within days of each other this month, from two sources with nothing in common except the thing they describe. On September 14, Spain’s data-protection regulator, the AEPD, announced it had received the … Continue reading
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Tagged AgenticAI, AI, Application Security, CyberSecurity, Intelligence, LLM, Penetration Testing
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