Meta has become the third frontier AI developer in recent weeks to disclose a security incident involving one of its advanced AI…
Date Archives August 2026
You’re only as secure as your last evaluation
The updated Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) represents a critical evolution in the Department of War (DoW) strategy to secure the Defense…
Cybersecurity needs a new operating model
For decades, cybersecurity has been built around one assumption: defenders had enough time to: Discover vulnerabilities. Assess exposure. Deploy patches. Verify that…
The exploit window is shrinking. Most security workflows are not
AI is accelerating vulnerability discovery, exploit development, and attacker weaponization faster than most organizations can adapt. Security teams are inundated with vulnerability…
CTEM isn’t failing. It’s not being operationalized
Cybersecurity is full of frameworks, regulations, and directives that tell organizations what they should do. Zero Trust, NIST, CIS Controls, CMMC, DORA,…
Autonomy is earned, not claimed
After more than 300,000 production penetration tests (pentests), our company has learned something that may surprise people watching the recent wave of…
Attackers hid malware inside Oracle Database after SQL injection breach
Huntress has documented a case where the Oracle database itself became the malware host. The security firm disclosed a campaign in which…
Verification closes the loop
Most organizations assume remediation reduces risk. It’s a reasonable assumption. A vulnerability is identified, a patch is applied, the scanner comes back…
Why the ‘rogue AI’ problem will lead to an era of headaches for security practitioners
Shortly after OpenAI publicly acknowledged the Hugging Face breach on July 21, Reuters journalist Raphael Satter called me for comment on a…
Practical lessons from deploying AI securely at scale
When I first started working on enterprise AI security initiatives, I expected the biggest challenges to be technical. I assumed we’d spend…