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The 80% Problem: Why Cloud Misconfiguration Beats Zero-Days Every Time
Zero-days grab headlines, but misconfiguration and stolen credentials cause up to 80% of cloud breaches. Here's a practical 2026 hardening checklist.
Read full briefing →Oracle PeopleSoft CVE-2026-35273: How an SSRF Bug Became an Unauthenticated RCE — and Why ShinyHunters Hit 100+ Organizations
Oracle PeopleSoft CVE-2026-35273 turned an SSRF in PSEMHUB into unauthenticated RCE. Here is the attack chain, the ShinyHunters campaign, and a remediation checklist.
When the Watchtower Falls: Splunk Enterprise CVE-2026-20253 Unauthenticated RCE
Splunk Enterprise CVE-2026-20253 (CVSS 9.8) is an unauthenticated RCE in the PostgreSQL sidecar, now exploited in the wild. Affected versions, fixes, detection.
Remote-Access VPN Hardening Checklist: Why 'Authenticated' No Longer Means 'Trusted' (2026)
Two critical VPN auth-bypass zero-days in one month exposed the same flaw: trusting the connection instead of the identity. Here's how to harden remote-access VPN.
Check Point VPN Authentication Bypass (CVE-2026-50751): When the Client Grades Its Own Exam
CVE-2026-50751 lets attackers bypass Check Point VPN authentication via IKEv1. Qilin ransomware exploited it for a month. Here's the technical breakdown and fix.
Stop Storing Long-Lived Cloud Keys in CI/CD: The 2026 Guide to OIDC Workload Identity Federation
Replace long-lived cloud access keys with OIDC workload identity federation in 2026. A practical, step-by-step guide to short-lived credentials for CI/CD.
Cisco SD-WAN Manager Zero-Day (CVE-2026-20245): When Your Network Control Plane Becomes a Root Backdoor
CVE-2026-20245 is an unpatched, actively exploited Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager zero-day granting root. Here's the attack chain, IOCs, and how to defend with no patch.
Ni8mare Decoded: How CVE-2026-21858 Turns Public n8n Instances Into Cloud Master Keys
CVE-2026-21858 (Ni8mare) is a CVSS 10.0 unauthenticated RCE in n8n. With 25,000+ instances exposed online, here is the technical breakdown, exposure data, and a remediation checklist.
The 144:1 Problem: A Practitioner's Guide to Non-Human Identity Security in 2026
Non-human identities now outnumber humans 144:1 — and 97% are over-privileged. A 2026 practitioner playbook for locking down service accounts, tokens, and AI agents.
Copy Fail (CVE-2026-31431): The Linux Kernel Flaw Threatening Millions of Cloud Workloads
CVE-2026-31431 'Copy Fail' is a Linux kernel privilege escalation flaw exposing millions of cloud and Kubernetes workloads to root. Detection, mitigation, and hardening guide.
Copy Fail (CVE-2026-31431): How a 4-Byte Kernel Write Escapes Every Cloud Container Built Since 2017
CVE-2026-31431 'Copy Fail' is a Linux kernel LPE that escapes Kubernetes pods admitted under PSS Restricted. Here's the algif_aead path, why it's been exploitable since 2017, and how to mitigate before the May 15 KEV deadline.