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How Firewall Rule Sprawl Puts Client Networks at Risk Over Time

How Firewall Rule Sprawl Puts Client Networks at Risk Over Time

Jul 23, 2026 By SecuritySenses In SecuritySenses
A firewall rule that made sense two years ago rarely gets revisited once the project behind it wraps up. It sits in the config doing nothing, forgotten, until an audit or an incident force someone to ask why it's there. That's the mechanism behind firewall rule sprawl, and it's one of the more overlooked risks in managing client environments over time.
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Luxury SEO Los Angeles: Westside vs. Eastside Search Behavior for High-End Brands

Luxury SEO Los Angeles: Westside vs. Eastside Search Behavior for High-End Brands

Jul 23, 2026 By SecuritySenses In SecuritySenses
If you operate a Luxury Brand SEO strategy in Southern California, you have likely noticed that the city behaves like a collection of distinct kingdoms. Assuming Los Angeles to be one market can easily result in your wasting your budget. The online buyer from Pacific Palisades has a completely different attitude than the art buyer from the Arts District. To dominate, your Luxury SEO Los Angeles strategy must bridge this gap.
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Enabling Massive-File Collaboration in the Cloud With Adaptive Block Caching

Jul 22, 2026 By Abhishek Kesanupalli In Egnyte
When it comes to massive files, many organizations still rely on old-fashioned, on-premises file servers and filers. They’re hesitant to work on these projects in the cloud because the inherent network latency makes working with massive files difficult. So they stick to an on-premises approach—even though it typically requires wired access and stable VPN connections, which makes sharing and collaborating especially challenging for people working from home, in the field, or on the road.
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The New Face of AI Risk

Jul 22, 2026 By Javvad Malik In KnowBe4
Cybercrime used to have a ‘"tell." It was the digital equivalent of a villain stroking their cat - clunky grammar, misspelt links and suspicious attachments that screamed ‘phishing’. But the arrival of AI has changed everything. Typos have been replaced by perfect prose. Generic lures have evolved into highly personalized attacks that mimic your internal language and align with your project timelines.
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aikido

Finding eight high-severity vulnerabilities in NodeBB in six hours

Jul 22, 2026 By Jorian Woltjer In Aikido
TL;DR While improving our AI Pentest, we ran a whitebox assessment on NodeBB, a forum software powered by NodeJS. The result? Eight high-severity vulnerabilities that would all be exploitable on default instances of NodeBB. This includes Cross-Site Scripting (XSS), two of which require interaction with a custom Federation server that the AI agent had to set up itself. Another affects practically every input on NodeBB due to a template injection.
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upguard

Oracle Just Shipped 1,449 Security Patches in One Quarter. We Checked How Much of It Is Actually New.

Jul 22, 2026 By Greg Pollock In UpGuard
Oracle's July 2026 Critical Patch Update (CPU) is nearly three times larger than any release in the company's history. To understand it, we parsed all 23 of Oracle's quarterly advisories going back to 2021, matched them against the official CVE record, and compared Oracle against eight other major vendors. We set out to answer three questions: How much of this is genuinely new? Does it really reflect AI-accelerated patching? And how unusual is it?
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vista infosec

EU CRA Gap Assessment: Are You Ready for 2026?

Jul 22, 2026 By Narendra Sahoo In VISTA InfoSec
Most compliance teams have filed the EU Cyber Resilience Act under “2027” — the date the regulation becomes fully applicable. That’s the wrong filing date. From 11 September 2026, manufacturers must already report actively exploited vulnerabilities and severe incidents affecting products with digital elements, more than a year before the rest of the regulation takes effect.
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When the Breach Isn't Yours, But the Risk Still Might Be

Jul 22, 2026 By Matt Watson In BlueVoyant
Every time a cyber breach breaks headlines, leadership teams pose the same urgent question: Does this affect us? But a third-party risk team is likely already asking: Was one of our vendors, suppliers, partners, or other third parties involved? And increasingly: What if it was not our direct vendor, but one of theirs?
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