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New MCP specification kills old risks but opens fresh attack surfaces, Akamai finds

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A major overhaul of the Model Context Protocol due next month removes several longstanding protocol-level security risks but hands developers a fresh set of attack surfaces to defend, according to research published today by Akamai Technologies Inc. The analysis examines the MCP 2026-07-28 specifica

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