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[Webinar] Why Your AppSec Tools Miss the “Lethal Path” (and How to Fix It)

TL;DR: Stop chasing thousands of “toast” alerts. Join experts from Wiz and Okta/GitLab to learn how hackers connect tiny flaws to build a “Lethal Chain” to your data—and how to break it. Register for the Strategic Briefing Here.
Most security tools work like a smoke alarm that goes off every time you burn a piece of toast. You get so many alerts that you eventually start to ignore them.
The real

Most Remediation Programs Never Confirm the Fix Actually Worked

Security teams have never had better visibility into their environments and never been worse at confirming what they fix stays fixed.
Mandiant’s M-Trends 2026 report puts the mean time to exploit at an estimated negative seven days. The Verizon 2025 DBIR puts median time to remediate edge device vulnerabilities at 32 days. These numbers have understandably driven the industry toward a clear

716,000 Impacted by OpenLoop Health Data Breach

The telehealth platform was hacked in January, and users’ personal information was exfiltrated from its systems.

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Microsoft Patches 138 Vulnerabilities, Including DNS and Netlogon RCE Flaws

Microsoft on Tuesday released patches for 138 security vulnerabilities spanning its product portfolio, although none of them have been listed as publicly known or under active attack.
Of the 138 flaws, 30 are rated Critical, 104 are rated Important, three are rated Moderate, and one is rated Low in severity. As many as 61 vulnerabilities are classified as privilege escalation bugs, followed by

Microsoft Patches Critical Zero-Click Outlook Vulnerability Threatening Enterprises

CVE-2026-40361 is similar to a vulnerability found a decade ago, BadWinmail, which at the time was dubbed an “enterprise killer”.

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Fortinet, Ivanti Patch Critical Vulnerabilities

Successful exploitation of these flaws could lead to arbitrary code execution and information disclosure.

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Chipmaker Patch Tuesday: Intel and AMD Patch 70 Vulnerabilities

The two chip giants have published over two dozen advisories describing recently identified security defects.

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GemStuffer Abuses 150+ RubyGems to Exfiltrate Scraped U.K. Council Portal Data

Cybersecurity researchers are calling attention to a new campaign dubbed GemStuffer that has targeted the RubyGems repository with more than 150 gems that use the registry as a data exfiltration channel rather than for malware distribution.
“The packages do not appear designed for mass developer compromise,” Socket said. “Many have little or no download activity, and the payloads are repetitive,

Hundreds of Malicious Packages Force RubyGems to Suspend Registrations

More than 500 packages were pushed during the attack, but the target appears to have been RubyGems itself rather than users.

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Android Adds Intrusion Logging for Sophisticated Spyware Forensics

Google on Tuesday unveiled a new opt-in Android feature called Intrusion Logging for storing forensic logs to better analyze sophisticated spyware attacks.
Intrusion Logging, available as part of Advanced Protection Mode, enables “persistent and privacy-preserving forensics logging to allow for investigation of devices in the event of a suspected compromise,” the company said.
The feature, it

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