Full Segment Notes
Randomness, 50 Shades of Grey, Deepseek, Sonicwall, Spice Weasels, CaptiveCrunch, eBay, Aaran Leyland, and More on the Security Weekly News.
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List of Articles
Doug White
- Is Grey Hair the New Gold in Cybersecurity?
- COLDCARD wallet RNG flaw likely linked to $88 million Bitcoin theft
- Hacker uses DeepSeek AI to autonomously attack vulnerable servers
- Researchers find ‘agent-to-agent’ privilege escalation in Google’s ADK for Python repo
- INC Ransomware chains two SonicWall SMA 1000 zero-days in attacks
- Russian spies turn public Wi-Fi into malware delivery systems
- After eBay settlement, David and Ina Steiner are multimillionaires. It doesn’t make it any easier to sleep at night. – The Boston Globe
- An AI-supervised remote exam went so badly that 58,000 students must retake it
Aaran Leyland
- Model Context Protocol releases major update to AI interaction technology
NSA CSI — Model Context Protocol: Security Design Considerations for AI-Driven Automation, May 2026: https://www.nsa.gov/Portals/75/documents/Cybersecurity/CSIMCPSECURITY.pdf
Six-agency guidance — Careful Adoption of Agentic AI Services, April 2026: https://media.defense.gov/2026/Apr/30/2003922823/-1/-1/0/CAREFUL%20ADOPTION%20OF%20AGENTIC%20AI%20SERVICES_FINAL.PDF
MCP maintainers' own 2026-07-28 release announcement: https://blog.modelcontextprotocol.io/posts/2026-07-28/
