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  • RoguePlanet: the Defender Zero-day that Survived Microsoft’s June Patch

    RoguePlanet: The Defender Zero-day that Survived Microsoft’s June Patch

    By Ryan Chaplin The new critical Microsoft Defender exploit, RoguePlanet (CVE-2026-50656), is confirmed active in the wild. Learn what it is and how to protect your network. June 22, 2026
  • Building Security Tools from Source to Bypass Endpoint Security

    Building Security Tools from Source to Bypass Endpoint Security

    By Jason Taylor Endpoint security detects many malicious files created with pentest tools, but pentesters can sometimes bypass this by rebuilding source code. Learn how here. June 16, 2026
  • Cool Tools: Bloodhound CE

    Cool Tools: Bloodhound CE

    By Andrew Trexler BloodHound’s Community Edition has everything a penetration tester needs to enumerate relationships in a domain in order to gain more access, even Domain Admin. June 2, 2026
  • CVE-2026-36748: XSS in Rock RMS Leads to Privilege Escalation

    CVE-2026-36748: XSS in Rock RMS Leads to Privilege Escalation

    By Jason Taylor Raxis Lead Pentester Jason Taylor recently discovered CVE-2026-36748, a high-risk XSS vulnerability in Rock RMS that allows privilege escalation to admin. June 1, 2026
  • Defense in Depth Against Linux Kernel Privilege Escalation

    Defense in Depth Against Linux Kernel Privilege Escalation: A Practical Guide for Container Workloads

    By Ryan Chaplin With current local privilege escalation exploits like Copy Fail and Dirty Frag active in the wild, harden your defenses to halt attacks even before patching. May 26, 2026
  • Cool Tools: NetExec (NXC) Fundamentals

    Cool Tools: NetExec (NXC) Fundamentals

    By Scottie Cole Now that CrackMapExec is no more, how is a pentester to rapidly test credentials, enumerate assets, spray passwords, and more? Learn the basics of NetExec here. May 19, 2026