The cybersecurity landscape has evolved beyond human scale. Today’s adversaries have replaced predictable, manual playbooks with machine-generated attack chains that can breach…
Date Archives July 2026
Linux XFS has a decade-old race condition allowing full root access
Linux systems using the XFS filesystem suffer from a race condition that could enable an unprivileged local user to gain full root…
Microsoft’s 3-day patching directive comes with added operational risk
Microsoft 365 Director Jeremy Chapman this month took to video to tell Windows admins that the days of delaying security patches are…
German law enforcement claims to have ‘dismantled’ mega phishing-as-a-service group Kratos
A global law enforcement crackdown has seized infrastructure serving the massive phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) group Kratos, as well resulting in the arrest of…
Critical Zimbra security update fixes 9 vulnerabilities
Business email and collaboration suite Zimbra has received a major security update that fixes several critical issues that could allow attackers to…
Oracle’s July update fixes ten 10.0 vulnerabilities in Fusion Middleware
Oracle’s July 2026 Critical Patch Update, its largest ever, contains 1,449 new security patches spanning 32 product families, from Oracle Database and…
Cisco’s new AI model tells code reviewers where to look for vulnerabilities
Cisco has revealed a family of open-weight AI models called Antares that, it said, can help security teams isolate potentially vulnerable parts…
OpenAI model escape puts enterprise AI defenses on notice
Some of OpenAI’s most powerful AI models teamed up to escape their sandbox and attack systems at Hugging Face in a cybersecurity…
AI, security operations and the new race against time
When Anthropic unveiled Project Glasswing and the Mythos model, much of the discussion focused on the capabilities themselves. Security leaders debated what…
10 survival tips for CSOs who report to the CEO
As the CSO grows in prominence, security leaders are increasingly earning a seat at the executive table, reporting directly to the CEO…