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The Hacker News AI Security · October 20, 2026

Pentesting dashboards: protect customer findings and agent controls

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Why it matters

NorForge found exposed Cairn dashboards containing target details, agent findings, and credentials, including panels apparently used by legitimate testers. This makes the dashboard itself a disclosure surface regardless of whether a test succeeds. Reported attack outcomes rely largely on panel records; the researcher did not test whether exposed administrative controls could be operated without authorization.

My takeaway: Inventory your own agent dashboards and restrict access before adding customer work. From an unauthenticated test client, verify that project lists, traces, exports, and control APIs all deny access. Use synthetic secrets to check log handling and tenant separation. If real findings were exposed, preserve access evidence, contain the service, and rotate affected credentials.
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