InfoQ - Security

Article: Architecting Secure and Scalable Facial Verification Systems

Praveen Kumar Gopalakrishnan — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 09:00:00 GMT

When three thousand employees verify at once, synchronous API calls collapse. This article presents a four-layer architecture for high-volume face verification: client-side filtering that cut cloud costs 30%, decoupled detection and verification enabling 10x scaling, risk-based dynamic thresholds, and zero-trust privacy with consent gates and automated data purging for GDPR and HIPAA.

By Praveen Kumar Gopalakrishnan

Repeated VM Escapes By GPT-5.6-Cyber Based Agents Prove VMs and OS' Require Better Maintenance

Olimpiu Pop — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 07:07:00 GMT

Traditional virtual machines are inadequate for isolating cyber-capable autonomous agents. Tests using GPT-5.6-Cyber indicated multiple escape attempts due to kernel flaws. While Firecracker provided some containment, vulnerabilities remained. The study underscores the need for minimal attack surface virtualisation technologies and rapid, proactive patching strategies to safeguard host systems.

By Olimpiu Pop

One Decade of Rustls: Evolution, Benchmarks, and Future Roadmap

Olimpiu Pop — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 07:07:00 GMT

Rustls, a Rust TLS library, marks its decade-long progression from a grassroots project to a funded open-source initiative. Key contributions from organisations boosted development, resulting in features like post-quantum cryptography and robust performance. The upcoming 0.24 release aims to enhance architecture and flexibility, including new input buffering and improved session handling.

By Olimpiu Pop

Presentation: Fixing the AI Infra Scale Problem by Stuffing 1M Sandboxes in a Single Server

Felipe Huici — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 11:00:00 GMT

Felipe Huici explains how Unikraft achieves millisecond cold boots, stateful scale-to-zero, and extreme density for sandboxing AI workloads. He discusses isolation primitives, Linux kernel optimizations, and snapshotting tricks, demonstrating how to maintain sub-10ms performance at scale while integrating seamlessly into Kubernetes environments with hardware-level security.

By Felipe Huici