720-891-1663

07.25.25 Security News Bites

AI is Great – But Is It Secure? MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers are the backbone of agentic AI. But researchers say that authentication is optional and nearly all of the nearly 2,000 MCP servers exposed to the Internet today do not require authentication or have access controls. What could possibly go wrong? To test […]

Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]

Hackers Are Weaponizing Open-Source SW

Hackers can and are contributing to open-source projects, but their contributions are not benign. Open-source – including AI code generators , are the main stay of software development. Saves time and money. In the second quarter of 2025, data exfiltration remained the top priority for attackers looking to quietly compromise developer environments from the inside out. In […]

Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]

Security News Bites for July 18, 2025

DOGE Staffer Leaked Private xAI API Key This does not appear to be malicious but both careless and of questionable judgement. Marko Elez, a special government employee who recently worked on systems at Treasury, Social Security and Homeland, published code to his GitHub. The code contained a private API key that exposed dozens of models […]

Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]

Security News Bites for July 11, 2025

How to Trick ChatGPT? I Give Up A clever AI bug hunter found a way to trick ChatGPT into disclosing Windows product keys, including at least one owned by Wells Fargo bank, by inviting the AI model to play a guessing game. Part of the reason the trick worked was that the sensitive data had […]

Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]

Household Item Proved Husband Was Cheating

People who suspect their partner of cheating usually use traditional methods to figure out whether their suspicion is real – like looking at their phone calls, text messages and emails. Sometimes they even hire a PI to follow their spouse. Suspicion is aroused when the spouse has new habits like paying more attention to personal […]

Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]

Security News Bites for July 4, 2025

Fake DMV Texts Scam Thousands This is a variation of the text scams we have seen before. These attacks impersonate DMV authorities and have tricked thousands into handing over sensitive info. The texts point to a scam website that looks like real DMV web sites and threatens license suspension and other legal penalties if people […]

Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]