Dev News Digest: 7 Oct 2026, 11:00
A quick roundup of developer news since the last digest. Security Counterfeit TLS certificates issued for Google and other big services : Attackers reportedly obtained fraudulent certificates for Google and other large services, a reminder to keep an eye on certificate transparency logs and CA trust. Ars Technica Cloudflare uses AI to attack its own WAF : Cloudflare put frontier AI models in a…
Developer news roundup for October 7, 2026, 11:00:
Fraudulent TLS certificates for major services like Google have been issued by attackers. This serves as a warning to monitor certificate transparency logs and trust in Certificate Authorities.
Cloudflare utilized artificial intelligence models within a controlled environment to target its own Web Application Firewall. By starting from blocked attacks and generating new variations, Cloudflare aims to uncover vulnerabilities in its WAF before any real attackers can exploit them.
Google's Spanner Omni, a distributed SQL database, has reached general availability. This software version replaces the previous Colossus and TrueTime systems. However, the absence of an availability SLA means users should anticipate trade-offs in tail latency and operational aspects.
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