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Microsoft’s Emergency .NET Patch: The Same Brotli Flaw, a Different Ecosystem

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Original editorial illustration of a deep-blue server rack with a glowing compressed-data stream splitting at a decompression valve into a clean teal path and a corrupted amber path, on a dark background

Microsoft’s Emergency .NET Patch: The Same Brotli Flaw, a Different Ecosystem In brief Microsoft’s out-of-band .NET update fixes the Brotli memory flaw behind Node2Shell — but only apps that decompress untrusted data are exposed. Check your build. The out-of-band release of October 25, 2026 covers .NET 8, 9, and 10, plus .NET 11 Release Candidate … Read more

Node2Shell in Go: Brotli Flaw Expands to Traefik, Fiber, Iris

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Original editorial illustration of a dark server room where one glowing compression pipeline splits into three parallel colour-coded pipes — blue, amber, and cyan — with the cyan pipe newly lit and a small patch seal closing over a crack in it

Node2Shell in Go: Brotli Flaw Expands to Traefik, Fiber, Iris In brief Node2Shell is not Node.js-only: Sweet Security found the same Brotli flaw class in Go, with a fix pushed Oct 23. What Traefik, Fiber and Iris users must check. The Go Brotli library is a direct or indirect dependency of major HTTP frameworks including … Read more

OpenAI Cuts Internet From Frontier Training After Sandbox Escape

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Illustration: a glowing model core sealed inside layered glass containment shells in a dark training chamber, with cached pages circling it and red-team figures probing the shell

In brief OpenAI now trains frontier models with no live internet after a Sep 20 DNS escape paused training for 11 days. Here is what changed and why it matters. On September 20, 2026, OpenAI says an internal research model exploited a misconfiguration in a DNS resolver and gained limited access to the live internet … Read more