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AI & ML 6 min

What Installing an Agent Toolkit Actually Grants

Giving an agent tools is one line of configuration, and that line does not say what any of them can do. We read all 77 t...

Kenji Tanaka

Pub. 20 Aug

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Cybersecurity 5 min

Three DNS Records Almost Nobody Publishes

DNSSEC, CAA and MTA-STS each protect people who will never know they exist. Across 18 major ASEAN banks, government port...

Kenji Tanaka

Pub. 19 Aug

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Cyber Threat Intel 6 min

Can You Prove an Attack Was Prevented?

Early warning is what threat intelligence is sold on, and prevention is the least verifiable claim in security — the evi...

Priya Nair

Pub. 19 Aug

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Cyber Threat Intel 5 min

Who Sells Threat Intelligence

Four quite different businesses use the same phrase, which is most of why the market is confusing. A map of the categori...

Priya Nair

Pub. 19 Aug

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Cybersecurity 6 min

What Your Own Domain Tells a Stranger

OSINT needs no budget and no access. We ran it against our own domain and found 26 robots.txt rules naming /admin/ and /...

Kenji Tanaka

Pub. 19 Aug

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Cyber Threat Intel 5 min

What a Threat Actor Name Buys You

Reporting names adversaries with real confidence — APT29, Lazarus, Sandworm — and it is worth asking how much a name act...

Kenji Tanaka

Pub. 19 Aug

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Cyber Threat Intel 5 min

From Feed to Decision

Buying a threat feed is the easy part. We work through the filtering that free public data already does to a scanner rep...

Priya Nair

Pub. 19 Aug

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Cyber Threat Intel 6 min

What Threat Intelligence Actually Is

380,235 vulnerabilities have been published. 1,670 are confirmed to be exploited in the wild — about one in 228. Telling...

Priya Nair

Pub. 19 Aug

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Cybersecurity 6 min

Many Security Policies Permit the Attacks They Are Meant to Block

Eighteen ASEAN banks, government portals and telcos send a mean of 3.7 of 5 browser-protection headers, which is better...

Kenji Tanaka

Pub. 19 Aug

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Cybersecurity 6 min

Signed Is Not the Same as Traceable

Every package npm serves carries a registry signature, so 100% of our dependencies look verified. Only 10.8% of the ones...

Priya Nair

Pub. 19 Aug

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Developer Tools 6 min

Your Bank Is Still on IPv4

We asked DNS whether 18 institutions across six ASEAN economies — the largest bank, the government portal and the bigges...

Maya Lin

Pub. 19 Aug

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Cybersecurity 6 min

Most of an AI Attack Is an Ordinary Attack

MITRE's AI threat matrix, ATLAS, shares 13 of its 16 tactics with classical ATT&CK. Only two are genuinely new — and jus...

Priya Nair

Pub. 19 Aug

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