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Building in Public: What Shipped This Week (Aug 1–7)
Despite being busy running the community sessions for the Microsoft booth at Black Hat this past week in Vegas, I was able to put some coding time in during my off-hours.
Grab a coffee. Last week the theme was velocity — two brand-new pro...
Security Check-in Quick Hits: NatJack Network Hijacks, Windows Hello Key Abuse, AI Coding-Agent CI Flaws & Actively Exploited TeamCity RCE
NatJack: A New Attack Class That Turns Shared NAT Tables Against You
Security researcher Malcolm Stagg (Synack Red Team / independent) disclosed NatJack at Black Hat USA 2026. The attacks manipulate network address translation (NAT) co...
Security Check-in Quick Hits: TeamCity RCE Under Active Exploitation, Rogue AI Agents in the Wild, Factory Router Backdoors, and a Massive npm Worm
CISA Adds Critical JetBrains TeamCity RCE (CVE-2026-63077) to KEV as Exploitation Begins
JetBrains TeamCity On-Premises—a widely used CI/CD platform—contains a critical unauthenticated remote code execution vulnerability (CVE-2026-6307...
The AI Slowdown Theater: Why the Boards and Pause Talk Are Mostly About Optics
Every few months the cycle repeats. A new model drops, headlines warn of existential risk, a handful of prominent voices call for a pause or a slowdown, and someone proposes yet another “open” oversight board or international AI safety body...
Security Check-in Quick Hits: CISA Flags Critical Exploits in Langflow/N-central/Tomcat, ChainDrop npm Worm Poisons Hundreds of Packages, and Water Systems Hit Across 12+ States
CISA Adds Actively Exploited Flaws in Langflow, N-central, and Tomcat to the KEV Catalog
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added three vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog,...
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Rod Trent is a Senior Product Manager for Microsoft. He has spoken many times at many conferences over the past 30-some years and has written several books and hundreds of articles.
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