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The Hacker News

Critical SharePoint RCE CVE-2026-50522 Under Active Exploitation After Public PoC

A third SharePoint Server flaw patched by Microsoft as part of its Patch Tuesday update for July 2026 has come under active exploitation, per watchTowr. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2026-50522 (CVSS score: 9.8), a critical deserialization of untrusted data in Microsoft Office SharePoint that could allow an unauthorized attacker to execute code over a network. Microsoft credited DEVCORE

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The Hacker News

Qilin Ransomware Attackers Exploit PAN-OS Authentication Bypass for Initial Access

Threat actors have been observed exploiting a now-patched high-severity Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS vulnerability as an entry point to deploy Qilin (aka Agenda) ransomware on victim environments. Arctic Wolf Labs said it investigated multiple intrusions in June 2026 that began with the exploitation of CVE-2026-0257 (CVSS score: 7.8), an authentication bypass flaw affecting the portal and gateway

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BleepingComputer

Closing the Identity Gaps in Critical Infrastructure Security

Critical infrastructure attacks often begin with stolen credentials, compromised devices, or trusted accounts. Specops Software explains why Zero Trust should verify both user identities and device trust before granting access to critical systems. [...]

Security
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DZone

One Click From Requirements to Production: The Promise and the Reality

Every few months, a new demo circulates in engineering circles. A product manager types a requirement into a chat window. The AI reads the docs, scans the codebase, writes the code, generates tests, opens a pull request, and deploys the feature. Start to finish, maybe four minutes. The comments fill up with fire emojis and breathless predictions about the end of software engineering as we know it. I have been building enterprise systems for eighteen years. I have shipped platforms that process t

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Wired Business

The Great Peptide Cash Grab Has Begun

The FDA could decide whether to loosen rules around peptide production this week. Some telehealth players are already seeing dollar signs.

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SANS Internet Storm Center

Captive Portal Detection, (Tue, Jul 21st)

Not everything our honeypots detect is an attack. Sometimes it is just "odd traffic", and this is one example: Our "First Seen" list currently includes "http://detectportal.firefox.co

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