Autonomous security agents are getting good at finding bugs. Nobody has a good way to measure how good. Point one at a realistic target and what comes back is a report the agent wrote about itself: confident prose, a list of findings, and no way to tell which of them happened.
545 Hackers Tested It First. Now XRanges for AI Scores Your Security Agent
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