GitLab Was Patched, the Server Was Still Vulnerable: CVE-2026-97229 Lives in RubyOn October 20, 2026, someone registered an account on Alpine Linux's public GitLab instance and started sending it crafted CI configurations. The instance crashed eight times over two days. Four of th19h ago · 6 min readdamianobianda.hashnode.dev
Your PDF says AES-256. The key had 9 bits of entropyOpen a password-protected PDF and the properties dialog will proudly tell you the document is secured with AES-256. That number describes the cipher. It says nothing about the key. This week, Rick de 1d ago · 6 min readdamianobianda.hashnode.dev
CVE-2026-97631: A 16-Year-Old Buffer Overflow That Runs Before Your Defenses DoYour server's security model has a load-bearing assumption buried in it: the code that runs first is trustworthy. Secure Boot, the TPM, disk encryption, remote attestation — all of it sits on top of f2d ago · 7 min readdamianobianda.hashnode.dev
One Token Leaked 155 AI Responses: Inside Cloudflare's GLM-5.3 KV Cache ExposureOn September 8, 2026, a security researcher told Cloudflare that very long prompts sent to one of its hosted models sometimes came back with text from other customers' sessions. Cloudflare reproduced 3d ago · 8 min readdamianobianda.hashnode.dev
The Brotli flaw is in .NET now: Microsoft's out-of-band patch, and the self-contained trapYesterday I wrote about HTTP2Shell: CVE-2026-111497, a buffer overflow in the Brotli decoder that ended up in Node.js's HTTP stack and a long tail of Python packages. Today the same CVE forced Microso14d ago · 4 min readdamianobianda.hashnode.dev