A structural risk in enterprise infrastructure: unauthenticated, remotely exploitable vulnerabilities embedded in the very devices designed to secure networks. In the 30 days ending July 17, 2026, 61 advisories across 14 vendors were disclosed, including six critical issues. However, the…
CISA Warns of Check Point Authentication Vulnerability Exploited in Attacks
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has issued an urgent warning about a critical authentication vulnerability in Check Point SmartConsole that is actively being exploited in the wild, prompting organizations to take immediate defensive action. Tracked as CVE-2026-16232,…
Shadow AI is becoming enterprise security’s biggest blind spot
Artificial intelligence has moved from experimentation to everyday business operations with remarkable speed. Employees are using it to summarize documents, draft communications, analyze spreadsheets, write code, build automations, and create AI-powered workflows across nearly every business function. Microsoft’s 2026 Work…
France Passes Social Media Ban For Under-15s
French parliament overwhelmingly approves fast-tracked law barring children under 15 from social platforms starting in September This article has been indexed from Silicon UK Read the original article: France Passes Social Media Ban For Under-15s
CISA Urges Organizations to Remove Rockwell PLCs From Direct Internet Exposure
CISA and partner agencies are directing U.S. critical infrastructure operators to immediately remove Rockwell and other programmable logic controllers (PLCs) from direct internet exposure and to hunt for Iranian-affiliated APT activity in OT environments aggressively. In a joint advisory first…
Critical RefluXFS Linux Kernel Flaw Lets Local Attackers Gain Root Access
A critical vulnerability in the Linux kernel, identified as CVE-2026-64600 and referred to as RefluXFS. This vulnerability enables an unprivileged local user to gain root access on systems that utilize reflink-enabled XFS filesystems. The flaw resides in the XFS copy-on-write…
Product Showcase: AppViewX Agent Identity Security
AI is multiplying enterprise identities as quantum computing reshapes the cryptographic trust that secures them, and enterprises need to solve both together. Traditional identity security was built for people with predictable, auditable access, not autonomous, short-lived agents that share credentials…
Critical Adobe Acrobat Chrome Extension Flaw “HermeticReader” Lets Hackers Hijack WhatsApp Chats of 300M+ Users
Guardio Labs has disclosed a critical vulnerability chain in the Adobe Acrobat Chrome extension that could allow a malicious website to hijack and exfiltrate rendered WhatsApp Web data from affected users. This vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2026-48294 and has impacted…
Anthropic Launches Claude Security Plugin to Scan Codebases for Vulnerabilities Before Commit
Anthropic has launched the Claude Security plugin for Claude Code in beta, enhancing its AI-assisted development platform with security scanning capabilities designed to identify vulnerabilities earlier in the software development lifecycle. The company stated that developers can scan code changes…
US Warns of Iranian Hackers Targeting Siemens, Schneider, and Rockwell ICS Devices
An updated advisory from federal agencies provides information on the techniques used to hack programmable logic controllers. The post US Warns of Iranian Hackers Targeting Siemens, Schneider, and Rockwell ICS Devices appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article has been indexed…
Multi-patch vulnerability fixes can leave open source exposed
Vulnerability management runs on a shorthand. A CVE shows a linked patch, someone applies it, and the ticket moves to closed. That shorthand covers most open source fixes. A share work in a different way, arriving as a run of…
The AI code vulnerabilities that grow with your app
Theori built 28 apps with AI coding agents and scanned each one through its pentesting platform. Five models did the building, split between Anthropic and OpenAI, across apps written from a spec, thrown together from a casual prompt, and rewritten…
Building a defense in depth strategy for sensitive data
In this Help Net Security video, Venkata Pavan Kumar Gummadi, Professional Software Engineer at Broadridge, explains how to build a defense in depth strategy for protecting sensitive data. He argues that a single control, like encrypting a disk or turning…
IT Security News Hourly Summary 2026-07-23 06h : 1 posts
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Anthropic Launches Claude Security Plugin to Scan Code for Vulnerabilities
Anthropic has released the Claude Security plugin in beta, bringing AI-powered vulnerability scanning directly into Claude Code for developers who want to catch high-severity flaws before they ship. The tool lets teams scan recent changes or full repositories from the…
ISC Stormcast For Thursday, July 23rd, 2026 https://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail/10020, (Thu, Jul 23rd)
This post doesn’t have text content, please click on the link below to view the original article. This article has been indexed from SANS Internet Storm Center, InfoCON: green Read the original article: ISC Stormcast For Thursday, July 23rd, 2026…
OpenAI scored an own goal with HuggingFace attack, showing how open Chinese models are winning
Closed models with guardrails can still cause harm, but may also not be able to fix problems they caused This article has been indexed from www.theregister.com – Articles Read the original article: OpenAI scored an own goal with HuggingFace attack,…
CVE-2026-8933: Ubuntu security flaw breaks Snap sandbox protections
Qualys disclosed CVE-2026-8933, a high-severity Ubuntu flaw that lets local attackers gain root privileges through a race condition in snap-confine. Qualys has disclosed a high-severity local privilege escalation vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-8933 (CVSS score of 7.8), affecting default installations of Ubuntu…
OpenAI AI Models Breach Hugging Face During Security Test
OpenAI says its AI models autonomously breached Hugging Face during an internal security test. The post OpenAI AI Models Breach Hugging Face During Security Test appeared first on eSecurity Planet. This article has been indexed from eSecurity Planet Read the…
Adobe Acrobat Chrome extension bug enabled silent WhatsApp data theft
Adobe patched CVE-2026-48294, a flaw in Adobe Acrobat Chrome extension that could let attackers steal WhatsApp Web chats by luring users to a webpage. Guardio Labs researcher Shaked Biner disclosed HermeticReader, a vulnerability chain in the Adobe Acrobat Chrome extension…
IT Security News Hourly Summary 2026-07-23 00h : 1 posts
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IT Security News Daily Summary 2026-07-22
169 posts were published in the last hour 20:34 : OpenClaw security best practices for CISOs 20:34 : GitHub Cuts Public Bug Bounty Payouts, Moves Top Rewards to VIP Tier 20:4 : Third-Party SDKs Raise Privacy Questions for Apps Marketed…
OpenClaw security best practices for CISOs
<p>OpenClaw has become one of the fastest adopted open source tools in recent memory. Originally released in late 2025 under the name Clawdbot, this autonomous AI agent now boasts hundreds of thousands of GitHub stars and a rapidly expanding ecosystem…
GitHub Cuts Public Bug Bounty Payouts, Moves Top Rewards to VIP Tier
Beginning July 27, 2026, GitHub will cut public bug bounty payouts by at least half at every severity level. Critical findings will drop from $20,000-$30,000+ to a fixed $10,000, while its permanent invite-only VIP tier will pay $30,000 or more.…