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Strategies, Expert Insights from the 2026 Verizon DBIR 2026-05-21 at 16:16 By The overarching theme of this year’s report is “keeping a strong foundation in the face of change.” This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Microsoft Warns of Two Actively Exploited Defender Vulnerabilities 2026-05-21 at 15:24 By Microsoft has disclosed that a privilege escalation and a denial-of-service flaw in Defender has come under active exploitation in the wild. The former, tracked as CVE-2026-41091, is rated 7.8 on the CVSS scoring system. Successful exploitation of the flaw could allow an attacker

When Identity is the Attack Path 2026-05-21 at 14:22 By Consider a cached access key on a single Windows machine. It got there the way most cached credentials do – a user logged in, and the key stored itself automatically. Standard AWS behavior. No one misconfigured anything or violated a policy. Yet that single key,

The Maximalism Trap: When More Becomes Too Much 2026-05-21 at 13:14 By Alisha Smith Why more tools, more alerts, and more data aren’t making you any safer This article is an excerpt from SECURITY.COM View Original Source