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danieltk76

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co-founder and CEO at https://vulnetic.ai
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danieltk76··on Frontier Airlines Likely Breached
thankfully I already had frontier airlines marked as spam email, so this changes nothing for me.
danieltk76··on [dead]
Back in August we found this cool bypass of developer restrictions in Atlantis, leading to an unreviewed terraform apply & RCE! The vulnerable Gitea approval path dates back to the integration's introduction in v0.28.0 (May 2024), so the bypass was most likely present for roughly two and a half years before the patch shipped in October 2026. Enjoy!
danieltk76··on I posted to HN, and then my website was flooded with AI bot traffic
happened to me too!
danieltk76··on Cyberattack halts construction of tunnel between Denmark and Germany
I think air gapping will be a necessity soon.
danieltk76··on GroovyGate RCE: Root Access Despite a 403
Be sure to check your bean validation! If your authorization check lives inside the handler, anything validation does runs before it, under the caller's identity.
danieltk76··on [dead]
Pretty Sweet vuln we found in OneDev @ Vulnetic! A year ago models struggled to do more than read response codes, its really cool to see how far the technology has come to where our AI Sable can reason past a 403.
danieltk76··on [dead]
My goal with this blog post is to help others keep their AIs in scope. It seems like recently people are happy to just trust that models will follow your prompts, and that just isn't reliable for production systems.
danieltk76··on AI 'kill switch' may need to be mandatory, Anthropic co-founder tells BBC
Why was this not a thing BEFORE continuing to develop AI? Makes me think that if they actually believed in AI causing extinction, they would have already had a kill switch.
danieltk76··on Claude is a Contrarian
I was working on some soc2 audit materials for my startup, and claude refused to edit a document because it would "tamper with the record". I suppose claude noticed I started the doc a few months previously and was worried I was tampering with evidence. No matter what I did it wouldn't help me. I suspect there will be more situations like this in the future.
danieltk76··on [dead]
We tested whether prompt canaries and honeypots could detect AI attackers.

Prompt canaries were surprisingly unreliable. I suspect the defenses model providers have added against prompt injection also make models less susceptible to prompt canaries.

Honeypots worked much better, having roastable accounts that are otherwise useless seems to be a good catcher.

danieltk76··on Do We Still Need Burp Suite for Web Security Testing?
reachout at danielk@vulnetic.ai and Ill give you some free credits to try us out!
danieltk76··on Do We Still Need Burp Suite for Web Security Testing?
I could see the value of using burp as a way to have a GUI look at what your agent is doing, but I know at Vulnetic and other ai security vendors we use our own proxies or custom scripting rather than burp.
danieltk76··on VC isn't VC anymore
yea but part of this is the consolidation of funding too. Standards to raise seed capital are soooo lofty now compared to 3 years ago. If you are in your in, if not good luck.
danieltk76··on GPT-6 Astra
great, but nobody can use it for another 100 days right?
danieltk76··on ChatGPT Is Throwing 404
hahaha i still have access
danieltk76··on Path to Astra: critical capabilities and frontier safeguards
this might be dated. the tech moves very fast in this space and architecture from 6 months ago is dated.
danieltk76··on Path to Astra: critical capabilities and frontier safeguards
We have posted some articles on it (blog.vulnetic.ai), Im also happy to chat!
danieltk76··on Path to Astra: critical capabilities and frontier safeguards
Daybreak blue is definitely a good model (I think a further post trained GPT 5.6 sol). Alot of the capabilities they talk about Astra having though have been available with good harness engineering for a year now.
danieltk76··on Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1
The guardrails are horrendous for cybersecurity. you will get booted quickly down to Opus 4.8
danieltk76··on A call for collective action on cyber defense
is there just a GC where people go sign these things?
danieltk76··on GLM-5.3-Flash
tbh I wasnt that impressed by it. initial benchmarks were trying to say it was AGI but i told it to re-build Palantir in 1 pass and it gave me a non working prototype
danieltk76··on Z.ai confirms Ox Alpha is a new GLM-series model and will release its weights
to be honest I found it underwhelming.
danieltk76··on LLMs could control their host machines by exploiting inference engines
they could yea...
danieltk76··on OpenAI Codex adds hidden "Daybreak Blue" and "Daybreak Red" cybersecurity models
I have been using daybreak blue for a few days now. Its fine, slightly better than gpt 5.6 sol. The harness really really matters as does validation.
danieltk76··on What Happens When the Cost of Intelligence Drops 100x
this guy gets it
danieltk76··on Show HN: Huzzah – a novel approach to coding with AI
i actually really like this. nice job
danieltk76··on The August 17 outage
i wanna vibecode a replacement for git and call it jit
danieltk76··on Every Model Cheats
ah yes, the consequences of reward hacking
danieltk76··on Vomit: Clean up Claude 5's token output with a separate LLM
yes.
danieltk76··on Degraded performance for multiple models
yea it was definitely a last straw kinda deal. I got tired of the sycophantic bullshit in the frontier models.
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