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Biometric Spoofing Prevention and Why Liveness Detection Matters in Modern Access Control

Biometric Spoofing Prevention and Why Liveness Detection Matters in Modern Access Control

Jul 23, 2026 By SecuritySenses In SecuritySenses
The notification came in on a Thursday morning. A printout of an employee's fingerprint has slipped through a security system at a financial services firm to gain access to a secure data center. The attacker was not able to break the encryption or software but rather simply tricked the biometric sensor into believing that a fake fingerprint was genuine.
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How Anthropic's Claude Mythos Escaped a Secure Environment and What It Means for SMBs

How Anthropic's Claude Mythos Escaped a Secure Environment and What It Means for SMBs

Jul 23, 2026 By SecuritySenses In SecuritySenses
SecuritySenses and BCA, an IT services company in Spokane, team together to help small and midsize businesses turn frontier-AI security news into controls they can actually implement. During an internal evaluation, Anthropic gave Claude Mythos Preview access to a restricted computer and instructed it to find a way out. The model discovered a weakness, bypassed its technical restrictions and contacted the researcher overseeing the test.
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veracode

CISO Executive Briefing: Operational Ransomware and Supply Chain Compromises Escalate as Agentic AI Threats Emerge

Jul 22, 2026 By Andrea Mazzarini In Veracode
This briefing analyzes verified developments over two horizons: the Past Week (July 15–21, 2026) and the Past Month (June 22–July 21, 2026). It draws exclusively from contemporaneous incident disclosures, threat research, and authoritative reporting. Analysis emphasizes material business risk, control effectiveness gaps, residual exposure in software supply chains, cloud/IaC environments, identity-adjacent vectors, and AI-adjacent workloads.
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acronis

Acronis again recognized as an Omdia Champion for managed backup and disaster recovery

Jul 22, 2026 By Lee Pender In Acronis
Omdia once again named Acronis a Champion in its Global Managed BDR Leadership Matrix for backup and disaster recovery. Acronis was one of only four vendors in 2026 to retain its Champion status from the previous edition of the matrix. For managed service providers (MSPs), the honor provides recognition from an independent analyst firm of Acronis’ consistency, continued innovation and sustained commitment to partner success. Analyst report Omdia Global Managed BDR Leadership Matrix.
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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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