Mirko Zorz
AI slop is piling up highest on the biggest open-source projects
The maintainers of large open source projects are taking the worst of the AI slop. In a Linux Foundation survey of 234 open source contributors and maintainers, people running …
r/opensource bans AI projects, and solo devs go down with them
Moderators of r/opensource, Reddit’s catch-all forum for open source software, have barred any project that “uses AI, is made by AI, or is intended for AI.” Moderator …
Drone program compliance: What a CTO says most agencies get wrong
In this interview with Help Net Security, Nick Donarski, CTO at RotorLab, explains what councils, records clerks, insurers, and auditors expect from a public safety drone …
New PHP2Shell scanner checks your hosts for CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619
Searchlight Cyber released php2shell-scanner, an open-source tool that tests whether a host is exposed to CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619, the pair of PHP remote code …
What the PHP2Shell vulnerability means for Fortinet, Cisco and Palo Alto customers
Palo Alto Networks confirmed that PAN-OS and Panorama are affected by PHP2Shell, a pair of critical PHP vulnerabilities that let an attacker run code on a web server without …
AI-found bugs are expected to rise, and OpenAI has a five-stage response plan
OpenAI has proposed a five-stage process for handling critical vulnerabilities in widely used software. The process grew out of a two-month response to flaws in PHP, the …
Sovereignty vs. security: Microsoft’s Roger Halbheer says you’re asking the wrong question
In this interview with Help Net Security, Roger Halbheer, Customer Security Officer at Microsoft, argues that digital sovereignty is a security question first. He explains why …
AI agent permissions are outrunning security
Most organizations have handed AI agents work that used to need a person’s sign-off. In a survey of 1,100 IT and security decision-makers, 70% said they now let AI make …
Say a few words, and a rigged AI asks for $5,000
Researchers at Imperial College London tampered with speech-to-text models so they transcribed most speakers accurately and misbehaved for one chosen person. When that person …
PHP2Shell: Critical PHP vulnerabilities patched, update now!
The PHP development team has released emergency security updates to fix PHP2Shell, two critical vulnerabilities (CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619) that could let attackers …
Privacy-preserving AI can protect your heart data, the bill is the problem
A heart monitor used to be a box beside a hospital bed. Electrodes fed a cable, the cable fed a screen, and a nurse watched the screen. The threat model fit on a sticky note. …
A critical PHP security release is coming today, so get ready to update!
UPDATE: PHP2Shell: Critical PHP vulnerabilities patched, update now! The PHP security team has announced an urgent security release for Wednesday, 21 October 2026 at 14:00 …
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