The Tuesday Briefing — Oct 13, 2026
Weekly security intelligence for SMBs. Top threats, quick hits, and one action to take now.
Thoughts on safe autonomy, engineering automation, and reducing cognitive overhead without putting your systems at risk.
Weekly security intelligence for SMBs. Top threats, quick hits, and one action to take now.
Agent control is turning into a product you can buy. Open or closed, you didn't write it, so what it does in your environment is the only proof you'll get.
Weekly security intelligence for SMBs. Top threats, quick hits, and one action to take now.
Darktrace rewrote the saved conversations of four coding agents and got them to attack a network. The lesson isn't about signatures. It's about where your agent's permission comes from.
Weekly security intelligence for SMBs. Top threats, quick hits, and one action to take now.
Seven defects surfaced in one migration. None of them crashed, none failed a test, and none turned a dashboard red. A broken control and a working control send the same signal: silence.
Weekly security intelligence for SMBs. Top threats, quick hits, and one action to take now.
An agent refused to run the attacker's binary, then wrote its own decoder and ran the payload anyway. Three incidents and one of our own show the same thing: a constraint you hand an agent is a preference it can route around.
Weekly security intelligence for SMBs. Top threats, quick hits, and one action to take now.
A tidy-up PR removed a safety pattern from a Snowflake workflow. Five days later an autonomous agent had a Jira token. The headlines said an AI wrote the bug; the commit history cannot actually tell you who did, and that is the more serious problem.
Weekly security intelligence for SMBs. Top threats, quick hits, and one action to take now.
Five CVEs across four vendors in thirteen months, all the same bug: your coding agent trusts a directory, then executes a file that can change underneath it. Here is the pattern, and the one line in Claude Code's restricted mode that actually fixes it.