Model Context Protocol (MCP) at First Glance: Studying the Security and Maintainability of MCP Servers

Although Foundation Models FMs, such as GPT-4, are increasingly used in domains like finance and software engineering, reliance on textual interfaces limits these models' real-world interaction. To address this, FM providers introduced tool calling-triggering a proliferation of frameworks with...

What Did We Learn from the Global GPS Collapse?

On April 6, 2019, a ten-bit counter rolled over. The counter, a component of many older satellites, marks the weeks since Jan 1, 1980. It rolled over once before, in the fall of 1999. That event was inconsequential because few complex systems relied on GPS. Now, more systems rely on accurate time...

RSA Conference 2019: The Sky's the Limit For Satellite Hacks

SAN FRANCISCO – The satellites orbiting the world are rife with vulnerabilities – and as more satellites go up, and antenna equipment becomes cheaper, they are becoming a lucrative target for threat actors back on earth, according to researchers. William Malik, vice president of infrastructure...

Respect The Fuzzer

This image from Charlie Miller’s CanSecWest presentation credit InfoSec Events shows how a small home-brewed fuzzing tool found multiple exploitable vulnerabilities in Apple’s Preview, Microsoft’s PowerPoint and OpenOffice. At the Pwn2Own contest, all the vulnerabilities used in the winning...