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UTMStack

Mastering Baseline Configuration Management in Hybrid IT

Jul 22, 2026 By cesmng In UTMStack
Your audit passed last quarter because the screenshots matched the baseline. Then someone pushed an emergency firewall tweak, a legacy admin account came back, and no one recorded the exception. By the time operations noticed the drift, the environment no longer matched the documentation, and the control that was supposed to prove stability had become part of the problem.
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miniorange

Birthright Access Explained: How Automated Access Improves Identity Governance

Jul 22, 2026 By Alankrita Shrivastava In miniOrange
It's a familiar story: a new employee shows up on day one, laptop in hand, ready to work, only to spend the next three days waiting for access to email, shared drives, and the applications their job depends on. IT teams juggle tickets, managers chase approvals, and productivity stalls before it starts. Manual provisioning doesn't just slow onboarding. It also creates security gaps. Teams often grant access on an ad hoc basis, assign more permissions than users need, and fail to remove unnecessary access.
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WatchGuard

QR Code Attacks Surge 146% in Two Months

Jul 22, 2026 By Kim Maibaum In WatchGuard
One particularly concerning trend in the recent evolution of phishing is the rise of QR code-based attacks. It doesn't rely on new malware or sophisticated exploits. Instead, it takes advantage of something much simpler: the trust users place in QR codes every day. Over the last few months, QR codes have become one of the most popular tactics for steering users toward malicious sites on mobile devices or in browser environments, where the visibility of many security tools is very limited.
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Why Reachability Changes Vulnerability Response

Jul 22, 2026 By Forescout Technologies In Forescout
When a critical vulnerability is announced, the first response is often urgency—and sometimes panic. But not every vulnerable asset presents the same level of risk. In this video, Daniel dos Santos, VP of Research, explains how reachability helps security teams move beyond broad vulnerability hunting and focus on the assets that are both vulnerable and exposed in ways that matter to the business. By understanding reachability, organizations can prioritize response efforts, reduce noise, and bring structure to vulnerability management.
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aikido

SQL injection isn't dead

Jul 22, 2026 By Dania Durnas In Aikido
Oops! A SQL injection bug just forced an emergency WordPress core patch last week. On July 17, WordPress shipped an emergency release to fix an unauthenticated remote code execution flaw in the core, reachable via a SQL injection that an anonymous attacker can exploit on a stock install. WordPress.org even turned on forced auto-updates because of how severe it is. Searchlight Cyber, who reported it, estimates over 500 million sites run WordPress.
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vanta

How to design a risk register: A guide for GRC practitioners

Jul 22, 2026 By Vanta In Vanta
Accelerating security solutions for small businesses‍ Tagore offers strategic services to small businesses. A partnership that can scale‍ Tagore prioritized finding a managed compliance partner with an established product, dedicated support team, and rapid release rate. Standing out from competitors‍ Tagore's partnership with Vanta enhances its strategic focus and deepens client value, creating differentiation in a competitive market.
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Corelight

You can't govern what you can't see: Detecting shadow AI on your network

Jul 22, 2026 By Tim Chiu In Corelight
AI adoption inside the enterprise didn't ask for permission. It arrived through browser tabs, code editors, and meeting transcription bots, quietly stitching itself into daily workflows long before security teams could write policy around it. The result is a familiar story with a new villain, a sprawling, unmanaged attack surface that lives in your network traffic but nowhere in your asset inventory. We call it shadow AI, and it's the blind spot you didn't plan for or budget for.
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CrowdStrike

CrowdStrike Falcon Platform Helps Meet U.S. Government Mandates for CISA BOD-26-04

Jul 22, 2026 By Karan Sondhi In CrowdStrike
On June 10, 2026, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) issued Binding Operational Directive 26-04, which transforms federal vulnerability management by shifting agencies from static CVSS-based patching to a dynamic, risk-based model. This supersedes BOD 19-02 and BOD 22-01. Agencies must now prioritize remediation using four key factors: public asset exposure, KEV catalog status, exploit automatability, and technical impact (partial vs. total control).
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indusface

WP2Shell: WordPress Core SQLi + REST API Chain to Pre-Auth RCE

Jul 22, 2026 By Pavithra Hanchagaiah In Indusface
A newly disclosed WordPress exploit chain, nicknamed “WP2Shell,” lets unauthenticated attackers achieve remote code execution (RCE) on any WordPress Core installation, no plugins required. Disclosed on July 17, 2026, the chain combines two vulnerabilities: CVE-2026-60137 (SQL injection) and CVE-2026-63030 (REST API batch-route confusion).
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