I tried the government's new AI "Jobcentre in your pocket" chatbot. Could it write me a CV? It could.
It also suggested that I should consider employment law and whether I've been discriminated against.
Key detail: I'm a parrot.
I'll be discussing *MCPwned* hacking local MCP Servers with browser-based DNS Rebinding during today's #ThursDef with @Recon_InfoSec !
Come hang out at today's fireside chat @ 1:30 PM ET/12:30 PM CT! You won't want to miss this!
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I found a travel app leaking exact user locations and birthdays via its internal API.
We could pinpoint where people were living and sleeping.
Full write-up 👇
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Jonathan Leitschuh - JLLeitschuh@infosec.exchange retweeted
BREAKING: MongoDB Introduces Surprise Holiday Feature
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
PALO ALTO, CA — MongoDB is thrilled to announce MongoBleed™, an innovative new feature that proactively shares your database contents with the broader internet community.
"For years, customers asked us: 'How can we make our sensitive data more accessible?'" said a spokesperson we definitely didn't make up. "MongoBleed answers that call. No authentication required. No consent needed. Just pure, frictionless data liberation."
Key Features:
- Zero-Click Sharing: Your passwords share themselves!
- Decade of Trust: We've been quietly beta-testing this since 2015
- Holiday Launch: Because nothing says "Merry Christmas" like your production secrets on GitHub
- Elastic Integration: Built by someone who definitely understood the assignment
Customer Testimonial:
"I was enjoying Christmas dinner when I got paged. My database was sharing our user credentials with the world. It really brought the family together—around my laptop, watching me cry." — Definitely a real IT admin
What's Next?
We're excited to announce our 2026 roadmap includes:
- Automatic password broadcasting to Shodan
- AI-powered secret harvesting (we're pivoting to AI!)
- A Slack integration that just posts your .env files directly to #general
About MongoDB:
MongoDB is the database that believes data wants to be free. Very, very free.
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Anyone have a security contact at @SandboxVR? A friend found a rather large data leak. They've reported it and the company has been, as of yesterday, unresponsive.
.@msftsecresponse published probably one of the most opaque CVE descriptions I've seen: "Improper verification of cryptographic signature in GitHub allows an unauthorized attacker to perform spoofing over an adjacent network."
Like... What is that even supposed to mean?! 🧵
⚠️ Google’s OSV just added 500 new advisories, not from new vulns, but from fixing a long-standing policy that made disputed CVEs invisible.
Learn more → socket.dev/blog/google-osv-f…
Today we’re publishing research on 80 confirmed fraudulent candidates who applied for Socket engineering roles in the past 2 months. They’re part of a coordinated campaign, including suspected North Korean operators, aiming to infiltrate hiring pipelines.
socket.dev/blog/fraudulent-e…
🚨 Malicious update to @ctrl/tinycolor on npm is part of an active supply chain attack hitting 40 packages across multiple maintainers. Audit & remove affected versions.
Our analysis of the malware: socket.dev/blog/tinycolor-su…#NodeJS#JavaScript
🚨 Breaking: npm author Qix compromised. Malicious package versions published in projects that typically see hundreds of millions of downloads each week.
Details: socket.dev/blog/npm-author-q…