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Can You Prove a New CVE Is Exploitable Before Attackers Do? Learn How in This Webinar 2026-09-19 at 20:44 By A new CVE drops. Your scanner finds it. The severity score looks ugly. But that still does not answer the question that matters: Can it actually be exploited in your environment? Mythos-class AI is compressing […]

Identity Visibility in 2026: The Foundation of Identity Security 2026-09-19 at 20:44 By Identity visibility is a starting point for modern identity security, because stolen and misused credentials are among the most frequently reported initial access vectors in breach research, including Verizon’s annual Data Breach Investigations Report. This article explains what identity visibility means in […]

Claude Opus 5 Helped Researchers Take Over OpenAI Staff Accounts via Chained Flaws 2026-09-19 at 15:15 By Three researchers at the security firm Hacktron used Anthropic’s Claude Opus 5 to chain two flaws and take over the ChatGPT and Codex accounts of several OpenAI employees, then reach an internal OpenAI code repository. The chain began with a […]

SolarWinds Patches ARM Hard-Coded Key Flaw Enabling Unauthenticated RCE 2026-09-19 at 15:15 By SolarWinds has released security updates to address a high-severity flaw in Access Rights Manager (ARM) that, if successfully exploited, could lead to an unauthenticated remote code execution vulnerability. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-28326, is rated 8.8 out of 10.0 on the CVSS […]

Critical Pre-Auth RCE in Orkes Conductor Workflow Platform Exploited in the Wild 2026-09-19 at 11:18 By A critical vulnerability impacting Orkes Conductor is being actively exploited in the wild, according to Fortinet. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2026-58138 (CVSS v3.1 score: 9.8/CVSS v4 score: 9.3), which relates to a case of unauthenticated remote code execution. […]

Google Gemini Broke Into Real Company Systems After Security Test Domain Mix-Up 2026-09-19 at 10:51 By Google’s Gemini model has become the latest artificial intelligence (AI) system to access the internet and break into other companies during a cybersecurity evaluation. The development was first reported by The Wall Street Journal. The incidents occurred in May […]

CrowdSec Says TanStack npm Attack Led to Copy of 170 Private GitHub Repositories 2026-09-19 at 10:14 By An attacker copied about 170 of CrowdSec’s private GitHub repositories on May 22 using the account of an employee who had just left, CrowdSec said on September 18. The French security company had kept his GitHub access open. CrowdSec […]

CISA Flags Three Linux Kernel Vulnerabilities Exploited in the Wild 2026-09-19 at 09:24 By The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Friday added three security flaws impacting the Linux kernel to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation. The vulnerabilities are listed below – CVE-2025-39682 (CVSS score: 9.8) – […]

A tale of two cities: San Francisco banning data centers, while Santa Clara is building more 2026-09-19 at 00:31 By Vivi Lin Santa Clara collects an estimated $29.5 million a year from server farms which gets spent on police, parks, libraries and other resident services. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News | […]

Public Exploits Released for Four Linux Kernel Flaws That Enable Local Root 2026-09-19 at 00:22 By A security researcher has released working exploit code for four Linux kernel flaws that each let a local user gain root, the highest level of access on a machine. Kernel maintainers have fixed all four over the past few […]

Inside the phony, incestuous web of woke AI ‘watchdogs’ that Anthropic claims will save us from an AI apocalypse 2026-09-18 at 23:11 By Thomas Barrabi Redwood Research – a Berkeley, Calif.-based group that co-authored a bombshell report last month detailing how a swarm of rogue OpenAI agents hacked rival firm Hugging Face – is one […]

Tech watchdogs cry foul as Google’s adtech monopoly left intact by judge: ‘Embarrassing capitulation’ 2026-09-18 at 21:28 By Thomas Barrabi US District Judge Leonie Brinkema’s 106-page decision ordered Google to share more data about its ad auctions with publishers and appoint an independent antitrust monitor to police its business practices, among other changes. The order […]

New WordPress Click2Shell Flaw Forces Theme Installs, Can Chain to Code Execution 2026-09-18 at 19:56 By WordPress today released patches to fix a new set of vulnerabilities in its core software, one of which could allow a crafted web link, opened by a logged-in administrator, to install a theme from the official WordPress.org directory without […]

Part 1: Why “Less Is More” in Symantec PAM Clustering 2026-09-18 at 19:20 By Mickey Why adding nodes to your primary site hurts performance, and how to scale with secondary sites instead This article is an excerpt from SECURITY.COM View Original Source