CISA says ransomware gangs are now exploiting a Microsoft Defender privilege escalation vulnerability known as BlueHammer, as BleepingComputer reports. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-33825, was patched ...

Monday recap. Same mess, new week. A sketchy dev tool got people pwned, old bugs came back from the dead, and security products somehow needed protecting from themselves. A bunch of companies spent ...

Cisco has rolled out updates for a maximum-severity security flaw impacting Secure Workload that could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to access sensitive data. Tracked as CVE-2026-20223 ...

As more companies shift their operations to the cloud, choosing the right provider has become a major decision that affects everything from scalability to performance to long-term costs. Amazon Web ...

Microsoft Defender for Cloud is a unified Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) and Cloud Workload Protection Platform (CWPP) service. It provides continuous security assessment, threat protection, ...

One person. Two AI subscriptions. Ten government agencies. 150 gigabytes of sovereign data. In December of 2025, a single unidentified operator used Anthropic’s Claude and OpenAI’s ChatGPT to breach ...

In addition to rolling out patches to address two zero-days affecting SQL Server and .NET, Microsoft introduced Common Log File System hardening with signature verification. The team at Readiness each ...

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A fully featured command line tool for post-exploitation operations on Microsoft SQL Server instances. Provides RCE (Remote Code Execution), privilege escalation, persistence, evasion, and cleanup ...

A port is a logical access point used by networking protocols to distinguish different services on the same device. For example, HTTP uses port 80, HTTPS uses 443, and RDP uses 3389. Windows Firewall ...