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LinkedIn was never designed to be hostile. That’s precisely why it’s become attractive to attackers.

In the current AI gold rush, teams are rapidly standing up automation, AI orchestration, and integration platforms to move faster. In many cases, speed comes at the expense of visibility and security. This is where external attack surface management becomes critical. IONIX can identify and continuously monitor a wide range of AI-related and automation assets exposed to the internet, helping organizations understand what they are running, where it is exposed, and what risks it introduces.

As 2025 comes to a close, it’s worth pausing, not to slow down, but to reflect on how rapidly the mobile security landscape is evolving and what that evolution now demands from all of us. This year reinforced something we have long believed at Appknox: security can no longer be an isolated activity or a late-stage control. As mobile applications become more interconnected, AI-enabled, and globally distributed, security must operate continuously and at scale, without slowing teams down.

Forget the old-school spreadsheets. In the Agentic Era, a cybersecurity risk assessment is no longer a “once-a-year” event you do for the auditors. It is now a living, breathing strategy of Continuous Exposure Management (CEM). Think of it as a high-tech health check for your company’s digital life. It identifies where you’re bleeding data, who’s trying to cut you, and how to build a digital immune system that fights back.

Secrets run your applications: API keys, SSH keys, tokens, passwords, database credentials. They reside in repositories, CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code templates, containers, and even chat logs; one stray commit is enough to expose a path into production. In 2024, abuse of valid account credentials was the initial access vector in roughly 30% of incidents investigated.

A critical remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability has been disclosed in n8n, a popular open-source workflow automation platform widely used to orchestrate business processes, SaaS integrations, and internal automation pipelines. Tracked as CVE-2025-68613, the vulnerability carries a CVSS score of 9.9 (Critical) and allows authenticated attackers to execute arbitrary system-level code on vulnerable n8n instances.

The University of Phoenix was founded in 1976 and is headquartered in Phoenix, Arizona, as a private, for-profit university designed for working adults and non-traditional students balancing family, career, and education. Accredited by the Higher Learning Commission, the institution later became one of the first online universities, offering personal support, career guidance, and flexible learning opportunities through over 100 programs.

After several months of declining billings, the AIA’s latest ABI reveals what many architecture firms experience every day: projects are slowing, decisions are taking longer, and securing new work is becoming more challenging. A softer market forces tough choices, but it also creates rare breathing room to fix long-standing operational pain points, especially those tied to scattered data, manual workflows, and inconsistent project startup processes.