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Articles Categorized as Patching

  • RoguePlanet: the Defender Zero-day that Survived Microsoft’s June Patch
    RoguePlanet: The Defender Zero-day that Survived Microsoft’s June Patch
    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.
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  • Defense in Depth Against Linux Kernel Privilege Escalation
    Defense in Depth Against Linux Kernel Privilege Escalation: A Practical Guide for Container Workloads
    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.
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  • Critical Buffer Overflow Vulnerability in Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS Software
    Critical Buffer Overflow Vulnerability in Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS Software
    CVE-2026-0300 is a critical buffer overflow vulnerability in Palo Alto’s PAN-OS software. Discover if you are affected and what to do now.
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  • Copy Fail - Local Linux Privilege Escalation in 4 lines
    Copy Fail – Local Linux Privilege Escalation in 4 lines
    CVE-2026-31431, dubbed Copy Fail, allows privilege escalation to root on Linux distros missing the latest kernel patches. Learn what to do in this blog.
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  • Smart Slider 3 Pro WordPress/Joomla Plugin Supply Chain Compromise
    Smart Slider 3 Pro WordPress/Joomla Plugin Supply Chain Compromise
    Last week’s supply chain attack caused many users of the WordPress and Joomla plugin Smart Slider 3 Pro to inadvertently patch to a malicious version.
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  • BeyondTrust RCE Vulnerability Exploited: Critical 9.9 CVSS Flaw Under Active Attack
    BeyondTrust RCE Vulnerability Exploited: Critical 9.9 CVSS Flaw Under Active Attack
    While BeyondTrust patched cloud-hosted Remote Support customers earlier this month, on-premises deployments of BeyondTrust must manually patch to remediate.
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