•Varonis Threat Labs has released "Breach at the Beach," a free Capture The Flag (CTF) designed to provide hands-on training for Entra ID security.
•The CTF focuses on real-world data exfiltration scenarios in cloud-native environments, particularly involving the growing threat of compromised non-human identities within Entra ID.
•Participants can trace a threat actor's steps, learn about modern attack techniques, and earn CPE credits, enhancing their practical cybersecurity skills in a critical identity management platform.
•SLA Credit Watch is a new service that monitors major cloud vendor status pages to create a monthly ledger of service downtime.
•The platform automatically calculates potential Service Level Agreement (SLA) credits for outages exceeding thresholds and notifies users of filing deadlines.
•It tracks key providers like AWS, GCP, Azure, Cloudflare, Slack, Twilio, and Zoom, offering transparency and operational insights for IT and finance teams.
•Novee Security researchers uncovered 'Cordyceps,' a class of CI/CD weaknesses in GitHub Actions, affecting over 300 high-impact projects from Microsoft, Google, and Apache.
•This vulnerability exploits how `pull_request_target` and `workflow_run` contexts interact with attacker-controlled input, allowing command/code injection and cross-workflow privilege escalation.
•Traditional SAST/DAST tools fail to detect Cordyceps because it's a compositional flaw across multiple valid workflow files, creating a dangerous false sense of security (green pipelines).
•AI has shrunk the window between vulnerability disclosure and weaponized exploits from months to an average of 8 hours, per the Zero Day Clock.
•Traditional 'patch your way out' strategies are failing, with median fix times at 43 days and patching rates for known-exploited vulnerabilities declining.
•Organizations must shift focus from simply identifying vulnerabilities to proving what is actually exploitable against their existing controls in real-time.
•Bootimus is a new, self-contained PXE and HTTP boot server built in Go, simplifying network booting with a single binary and zero configuration.
•It features a built-in proxyDHCP, automatic detection for over 50 Linux distributions, Windows, and popular tools, along with MAC-based ACLs and unattended install support.
•Designed for modern infrastructure, Bootimus offers multi-arch Docker support (amd64/arm64), a REST API for automation, and is fully open-source under the Apache 2.0 license.
•Elastic has reportedly agreed to acquire DeductiveAI, an AI site reliability engineering (AI SRE) startup focused on automated bug detection and resolution, for up to $85 million.
•The acquisition aims to enhance Elastic's observability platform by integrating DeductiveAI's technology for real-time performance monitoring and automated system failure resolution.
•This deal highlights a growing trend of established tech companies acquiring AI-native startups to incorporate agentic technologies into their existing product suites, particularly in the critical AI ...
•ZDNet highlights over 40 'hidden' Google Maps settings that can significantly enhance user experience, privacy, and efficiency.
•These settings go beyond basic navigation, offering controls for fuel-efficient routes, privacy (like blurring homes), accessibility, and battery life.
•For IT professionals and enterprises, these features offer opportunities for operational optimization, improved digital privacy practices, and better mobile device management.
•Varonis Threat Labs has released "Breach at the Beach," a free Capture The Flag (CTF) designed to provide hands-on training for Entra ID security.
•The CTF focuses on real-world data exfiltration scenarios in cloud-native environments, particularly involving the growing threat of compromised non-human identities within Entra ID.
•Participants can trace a threat actor's steps, learn about modern attack techniques, and earn CPE credits, enhancing their practical cybersecurity skills in a critical identity management platform.
•SLA Credit Watch is a new service that monitors major cloud vendor status pages to create a monthly ledger of service downtime.
•The platform automatically calculates potential Service Level Agreement (SLA) credits for outages exceeding thresholds and notifies users of filing deadlines.
•It tracks key providers like AWS, GCP, Azure, Cloudflare, Slack, Twilio, and Zoom, offering transparency and operational insights for IT and finance teams.
•Novee Security researchers uncovered 'Cordyceps,' a class of CI/CD weaknesses in GitHub Actions, affecting over 300 high-impact projects from Microsoft, Google, and Apache.
•This vulnerability exploits how `pull_request_target` and `workflow_run` contexts interact with attacker-controlled input, allowing command/code injection and cross-workflow privilege escalation.
•Traditional SAST/DAST tools fail to detect Cordyceps because it's a compositional flaw across multiple valid workflow files, creating a dangerous false sense of security (green pipelines).
•AI has shrunk the window between vulnerability disclosure and weaponized exploits from months to an average of 8 hours, per the Zero Day Clock.
•Traditional 'patch your way out' strategies are failing, with median fix times at 43 days and patching rates for known-exploited vulnerabilities declining.
•Organizations must shift focus from simply identifying vulnerabilities to proving what is actually exploitable against their existing controls in real-time.
•Bootimus is a new, self-contained PXE and HTTP boot server built in Go, simplifying network booting with a single binary and zero configuration.
•It features a built-in proxyDHCP, automatic detection for over 50 Linux distributions, Windows, and popular tools, along with MAC-based ACLs and unattended install support.
•Designed for modern infrastructure, Bootimus offers multi-arch Docker support (amd64/arm64), a REST API for automation, and is fully open-source under the Apache 2.0 license.
•Elastic has reportedly agreed to acquire DeductiveAI, an AI site reliability engineering (AI SRE) startup focused on automated bug detection and resolution, for up to $85 million.
•The acquisition aims to enhance Elastic's observability platform by integrating DeductiveAI's technology for real-time performance monitoring and automated system failure resolution.
•This deal highlights a growing trend of established tech companies acquiring AI-native startups to incorporate agentic technologies into their existing product suites, particularly in the critical AI ...
•ZDNet highlights over 40 'hidden' Google Maps settings that can significantly enhance user experience, privacy, and efficiency.
•These settings go beyond basic navigation, offering controls for fuel-efficient routes, privacy (like blurring homes), accessibility, and battery life.
•For IT professionals and enterprises, these features offer opportunities for operational optimization, improved digital privacy practices, and better mobile device management.
