Last week, a Cursor agent running on Claude Opus 4.6 deleted a startup's production database and its backups in nine seconds. The agent had been asked to fix a credential mismatch in staging. It decided to delete a Railway volume to "fix" it instead — using an over-scoped API token it found in an unrelated file. Railway stores volume backups in the same volume, so one destructive call zeroed every
In recent months, a peculiar behavior observed in Visual Studio Code (VS Code) has sparked discussions among developers: the automatic insertion of the phrase “co-authored by Copilot” in the code comments, even when GitHub Copilot is not actively used by the developer. This phenomenon raises essential questions regarding code attribution, developer productivity, and the implications of AI-assisted
Metasploitable2 - FTP Exploitation using vsftpd 2.3.4 Backdoor 1. Objective To identify and exploit a known vulnerability in an FTP service running on a vulnerable target machine using industry-standard reconnaissance and exploitation techniques. 2. Lab Environment Component Description Attacker Machine Kali Linux Target Machine Metasploitable2 Network Type Host-only / NAT
It felt overwhelming—hundreds of tabs were open across my browser, each representing a piece of information I once deemed crucial. I had become a digital hoarder, accumulating resources with no plan to revisit them. It was time to act, and that’s when I stumbled upon Notion Web Clipper. As a developer based in Batam, Indonesia, my days often blur together as I juggle coding, learning, and keeping
This is Part 1 of a two-part series. Part 2 (coming soon): Connecting to spoke clusters from a controller using multicluster-runtime, driven by ClusterProfile. The Cluster Inventory API (multicluster.x-k8s.io) is driven by SIG-Multicluster and centered on the ClusterProfile resource. It only delivers value when something produces those ClusterProfiles. That something is a cluster manager. Today, t
When developers travel, we usually prepare the obvious things. Laptop charger. But there is one dependency that is easy to underestimate until it breaks: mobile internet. A trip to China makes this especially obvious. Not because China is hard to travel in, but because so many basic interactions are mobile-first: navigation, translation, ride-hailing, hotel communication, ticket confirmations, pay
A backup job missed 24 days of runs. Nobody knew. The CronJob looked fine in kubectl get cronjobs. No alerts fired. The last successful run timestamp in the status field just sat there, quietly getting older. The root cause: the CronJob controller had silently given up scheduling after missing 100 runs. Logged an error. Stopped trying. Moved on. This article explains why Kubernetes CronJobs are st
A defaced website is a curious problem. It's loud — anyone visiting the page can see something is wrong. But it's also quiet from a server's perspective: HTTP returns 200, your uptime monitor is happy, your TLS cert hasn't moved, and the CMS logs show a "successful" content update from a legitimate-looking session. The signal is on the rendered page, not in the metrics. I run a site at hi3ris.blue