How to Keep Your AI Agents From Going Rogue: Guardrails That Actually Work
AI agents are being handed real access to your files, browser, and accounts. Here are the practical guardrails that keep them useful without letting them go off the rails.
Hackers Are Draining AI Accounts Without Your Password: How Stolen Session Tokens Work — and How to Stop Them
Attackers are logging into people’s Claude and ChatGPT accounts and running up their usage — without ever knowing the password or touching two-factor auth. The trick is stealing your already-logged-in session, and it works on almost any AI service. Here’s exactly how it happens and the handful of habits that shut it down.
Slopsquatting: When Your AI Coding Assistant Invents a Package Name and an Attacker Is Waiting
Ask an AI coding assistant for the right library and sometimes it confidently names one that doesn’t exist. Attackers noticed. They’re registering those hallucinated package names and waiting for you to run install. It’s called slopsquatting, it’s disturbingly predictable, and here’s exactly how to keep it out of your projects.
The Hidden Text That Can Hijack Your AI Assistant — And How to Stay Safe
A single click or a line of invisible text can quietly tell your AI assistant to work for someone else. Here is what prompt injection is, why the Microsoft Copilot ‘Reprompt’ flaw was a wake-up call, and the practical habits that keep you safe.
Your AI Coding Assistant Can Be Tricked: The GhostApproval Flaw and How to Code Safely with AI
Researchers just showed that a booby-trapped code repo can trick six popular AI coding assistants into writing files where they shouldn’t – and that the ‘approve this action’ button you rely on can be lying to you. Here’s what the GhostApproval flaw means, why blind trust in AI code is the real risk, and the simple habits that keep you safe.