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Claude Reached Real Systems During Cybersecurity Tests. The Lesson Is Scope, Not Panic

| 20 min read
For Experts

Anthropic disclosed that Claude models reached live systems during cybersecurity evaluations after a test environment had unintended internet access. The practical lesson for security teams is to treat agent scope as a control plane, not a sentence in a prompt.

A Root Escalation That Runs Below Your Security Controls

| 32 min read
For Experts

A copy-on-write race in the Linux kernel XFS implementation lets an unprivileged local user overwrite arbitrary readable files at the block layer, with no kernel logging and persistence across reboots. It affects kernels back to 4.11 and roughly 16.4 million default installations.