Robert Brown
Vulnerabilities & exploit research
Robert spent a decade in offensive security before pivoting to journalism. He covers vulnerability disclosures, exploit chains, and the patch-management treadmill — translating CVE detail for working defenders without dumbing it down.
Recent stories
AI Security
Microsoft Open-Sources Rampart and Clarity to Embed AI Agent Safety Into Dev Pipelines
Two new tools shift AI red-teaming left, targeting prompt injection and privilege escalation before code ships.
May 28
Vulnerabilities
Cisco Secure Workload Flaw Demands Immediate Attention
Cisco Secure Workload vulnerability allows attackers admin-level access; patch now.
May 28
Threat Intelligence
Megalodon Campaign Plants Malicious Workflows in 5,561 GitHub Repos in Six Hours
Throwaway accounts pushed 5,718 commits forging build-bot identities to exfiltrate CI/CD secrets, researchers said.
May 28
AI Security
Anthropic Says Project Glasswing AI Has Flagged 10,000 High-Severity Bugs in a Month
The Claude-based scanner has been pointed at widely deployed open-source code since October. Anthropic has not named the affected projects.
May 28
Policy & Regulation
Dutch Investigators Seize 800 Servers, Arrest Two Tied to Stark Industries Successor
FIOD raids in Enschede, Almere, Dronten and Schiphol-Rijk target MIRhosting and WorkTitans BV over alleged sanctions breaches linked to Russian influence operations.
May 28
Breaches
Lithuania Probes Foreign Hand in Leak of 600,000-Plus National Register Records
Lithuanian authorities suspect state-linked actors after a data breach exposed more than 600,000 entries from government population and registration databases.
May 28
AI Security
Anthropic Adds 28 Enterprise Security Integrations to Claude, Including CrowdStrike and Okta
The AI company is wiring Claude into the core of enterprise security stacks, from endpoint detection to identity management.
May 26