Complete static archive of GigaTap articles about VPN, privacy, OPSEC, and security.
- The missing open-source AI app for Android - An F-Droid Forum question shows why private, open, current AI on Android is still a hard product to build — and how users should evaluate the trade-offs.
- The Musk-OpenAI trial puts AI trust on the stand - Closing arguments turned on Sam Altman’s credibility, Musk’s own record, and a larger problem: private AI labs still ask the public to trust what outsiders
- The real MCP story is workflow control - A Zapier case study shows how a small real estate team used MCP to move beyond fixed automation triggers and build an AI agent around CRM, email, and lead
- Your Trusted Admin Tools Are Part of the Attack Surface - PowerShell, WMIC, Certutil, MSBuild and other legitimate utilities can hide attacker activity in plain sight. The practical answer is context, baselines, a
- AI Abuse Starts With Ordinary Data - A professional headshot and a private phone number show the same AI-era risk: data shared for one purpose can be reused in ways people never consented to.
- Before You Add a Terminal Logo Tool - shinshin86/oh-my-logo looks like a harmless CLI flourish. Before putting it in shared workflows, check license clarity, install path, update signals, and f
- Chainguard lowers RPM friction for regulated Linux teams - Chainguard’s RHEL 9/10 RPM support and FINOS membership point to a practical goal: make secure Linux modernization less disruptive for financial institutio
- Cisco SD-WAN auth bypass: why CVSS 10 matters - Cisco patched a maximum-severity Catalyst SD-WAN Controller authentication bypass and says it has been exploited in limited attacks.
- Google Pay Adds Clearer Rules for Future Charges - Google Pay API now lets developers describe subscriptions, deferred payments, and automatic reloads more precisely inside merchant initiated transaction fl
- node-ipc on npm was tampered with — credentials were the target - A reported compromise of the popular `node-ipc` package turned a routine npm dependency into a credential-theft risk. Here is what is known, what is not, a
- ship-safe scans the new agent-era security seam - A public GitHub project claims checks for CI/CD drift, agent permissions, MCP tool injection, secrets, and AI dependency risk. Useful idea, but verify scop
- WP Super Edit file upload bug puts old WordPress sites at risk - CVE-2021-47965 affects WP Super Edit 2.5.4 and earlier, where an unrestricted upload path in FCKeditor may allow remote code execution.
- A public VPN config list for Russia: useful, not magic - The igareck/vpn-configs-for-russia repository collects free VPN and proxy configurations for Russian network conditions. It may help with access, but users
- ADK points agents beyond the chat session - Google’s ADK tutorial shows how long-running agents can pause, resume, and keep workflow state across idle time and restarts.
- AI agent builders are now workflow infrastructure - Zapier’s 2026 guide shows how agent builders are moving from demos to operational workflows. The real test is integration, control, and failure handling.
- AutoPWN Suite: automation with sharp edges - A cautious look at AutoPWN Suite, a public Python project for automated vulnerability scanning and exploitation, and what to verify before touching it.
- Before You Adopt a Hacking Tools List - yogsec/Hacking-Tools is useful as a discovery index. Treat it as a map, not a vetted toolchain.
- ClickHouse blocked by CVEs? Check the container base - Docker’s ClickHouse case study shows why production scans often fail on packaging, not the database itself — and what teams can remove before release.
- Copy Fail Patch Alert: Stale Linux Images Still Put Cloud Workloads at Risk - The Linux “Copy Fail” exploit has a patch, but cloud and container estates can keep vulnerable code alive through stale images.
- DFlash on TPUs targets LLM inference’s sequential bottleneck - UCSD researchers report 3.13x average LLM inference speedups on Google TPUs by using block-diffusion speculative decoding instead of one-token-at-a-time dr
- F-Droid’s app pages need better author context - A small forum request points to a real repository UX issue: users need easier ways to find categories and more apps from the same author.
- Gitleaks: secret scanning where code actually leaks - Gitleaks is an open-source Go tool for finding secrets in Git and CI/CD workflows. It can help, but it is a control point, not a full secret-management str
- Hacking-Tools Is a Map, Not a Trust Signal - A look at yogsec/Hacking-Tools: what the GitHub repository helps with, who may find it useful, and what to verify before using any listed tool.
- IntelOwl adoption checklist: useful tool, real tradeoffs - IntelOwl has strong public signals as an open source threat-intelligence project, but teams should review deployment, licensing, maintenance, and enrichmen