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The Missing Layer in Network Security: Continuous Assurance

Jul 22, 2026 By Garrett Hamilton In Reach Security
Some of the most serious network security weaknesses develop gradually through routine operational changes. Firewall rules are adjusted to support business needs, exceptions remain in place longer than planned, and controls are modified during troubleshooting. Over time, those decisions can push the live environment away from the security posture the organization believes it has.
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Protecting the Corporate Nervous System: Why Network Security Assurance Is Becoming a Security Imperative

Jul 22, 2026 By Bharath Rangamannar In Reach Security
Modern enterprises depend on a complex network of interconnected systems, applications, identities, and security controls. This infrastructure has become the nervous system of the business, enabling critical operations, supporting applications, and enforcing the boundaries that protect sensitive data. When these systems function correctly, they become invisible.
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What the OpenAI-Hugging Face Incident Really Tells Us

Jul 22, 2026 By Laura Grace Ellis In Arctic Wolf
For years, the conversation about AI in cybersecurity has been mostly hypothetical. What happens when a model can plan and execute an attack on its own? How far away is that, really? This week, OpenAI gave us a concrete answer, and it arrived earlier than many expected. The incident is a genuine milestone, and it deserves the attention it is getting. But the most useful response is disciplined execution on the fundamentals, at a pace that matches the moment.
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The Abbott Cyber Incident Reveals Why Infrastructure Security Is No Longer Enough for Healthcare

Jul 22, 2026 By AppSentinels In AppSentinels
Healthcare has spent years strengthening its infrastructure against ransomware, patching vulnerabilities, deploying endpoint detection, and implementing zero-trust architectures. Yet, attackers continue to find new ways to compromise healthcare organizations.
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Attackers Exploit AI Hallucinations to Send Users to Phishing Sites

Jul 22, 2026 By KnowBe4 Team In KnowBe4
Threat actors are using a new technique called “phantom squatting” to trick AI tools into directing users to phishing sites, according to researchers at Palo Alto Networks’ Unit 42. Since AI models frequently hallucinate phony information, they sometimes point users to websites that don’t exist. Threat actors are now registering these AI-hallucinated domains and using them to host phishing sites.
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Ep. 68 - Why OWASP's AIVSS Scores Agentic AI at Maximum Risk

Jul 22, 2026 By SafeBreach In SafeBreach
OWASP just shipped AIVSS — an entirely new vulnerability scoring methodology built for autonomous AI agents, where a compromised orchestrator can score a perfect 10. Host Tova Dvorin and Adrian break down the "amplification principle": why a 2.1 CVSS finding becomes a 7.1 in the wrong agent, how persistent memory and broad tool access expand every blast radius, and what EchoLeak-style attacks already mean for real deployments. Plus where adversarial exposure validation and SafeBreach's agentic AI coverage fit in.
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Ep. 65 - "Months, Not Years": The Five Eyes AI Warning and Your Security Program

Jul 22, 2026 By SafeBreach In SafeBreach
On June 22, 2026, the heads of all six Five Eyes cyber agencies — GCHQ, CISA, the NSA, ASD, the Canadian Centre, and New Zealand's GCSB — signed a rare joint statement: AI has rewritten the cyber risk timeline, and it's months, not years. Host Tova Dvorin and offensive security expert Adrian Culley unpack why AI is collapsing the window between vulnerability and exploit, why "having controls" isn't the same as proven controls, and why legacy systems are now strategic liabilities for the board, not the IT team. A clear-eyed look at validation, assumed breach, and what CISOs should do Monday morning.
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Why Continuous Attestation Is Critical in the AI Coding Era

Jul 22, 2026 By VERACODE In Veracode
In the age of AI coding, annual audits and snapshots are no longer enough. Discover **Continuous Attestation** — the practice of producing ongoing, verifiable evidence that your applications and pipelines are always running in a trusted, policy-conformant state. In this video, Anthony Barkley, Chief Strategy Officer at Veracode, explains why independence in attestation is critical for earning trust from regulators, customers, and boards — especially when AI agents are writing code.
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Oracle Just Shipped 1,449 Security Patches in One Quarter. We Checked How Much of It Is Actually New.

Jul 22, 2026 By Greg Pollock In UpGuard
Oracle's July 2026 Critical Patch Update (CPU) is nearly three times larger than any release in the company's history. To understand it, we parsed all 23 of Oracle's quarterly advisories going back to 2021, matched them against the official CVE record, and compared Oracle against eight other major vendors. We set out to answer three questions: How much of this is genuinely new? Does it really reflect AI-accelerated patching? And how unusual is it?
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