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  • AI Coding Tip 037 - Stop Patching Blind

    This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/ai-coding-tip-037-stop-patching-blind.


    Patch code that never had a test written for it, and every quick fix becomes tomorrow's outage
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    This story was written by: @mcsee. Learn more about this writer by checking @mcsee's about page,
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    Patch code that never had a test written for it, and every quick fix becomes tomorrow's outage

    16 min
  • 11 Cybersecurity CEOs Getting the Industry’s Attention in 2026

    This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/11-cybersecurity-ceos-getting-the-industrys-attention-in-2026.



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    This story was written by: @ruth-hasson. Learn more about this writer by checking @ruth-hasson's about page,
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    8 min
  • SonicWall's Remediation Guidance Says the Patch Is Only Step One of Four

    This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/sonicwalls-remediation-guidance-says-the-patch-is-only-step-one-of-four.


    SonicWall confirmed two SMA 1000 zero-days under active exploitation. Its own remediation guidance ends with resetting TOTP tokens. Here's why that matters.
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    You can also check exclusive content about #network-security, #vpn-security, #vulnerability-management, #edge-device-security, #totp-seed-exposure, #sonicwall-sma-1000, #cve-2026-83548, #cve-2026-83549, and more.


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    SonicWall disclosed two SMA 1000 flaws on September 1, both exploited in the wild: CVE-2026-83548, a pre-auth SSRF scoring CVSS 10.0, and CVE-2026-83549, an OS command injection. Chained, they reach unauthenticated RCE. The overlooked part is SonicWall's own guidance for a confirmed compromise — re-image, change all passwords, and reset TOTP tokens. A VPN gateway is an authentication store. A patch closes the code path; it cannot un-copy the seeds an intruder already took.

    7 min
  • Inside Immutable Backup Architecture: How Air-Gapped and WORM Storage Actually Stop Ransomware

    This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/inside-immutable-backup-architecture-how-air-gapped-and-worm-storage-actually-stop-ransomware.


    Ransomware doesn't need to crack your backups if it can steal the credentials that control them. Here's how immutability and air-gapping actually build a recove
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    and for more stories, please visit hackernoon.com.


    Ransomware doesn't have to break your backups if it can steal the credentials that control them. Immutability moves deletion and modification rules below the backup application. Air-gapping removes the attacker's network path. Neither is sufficient alone. The real question is where your recovery boundary sits, the point where a compromised production identity stops being able to control the recovery copy.

    10 min
  • Securing Inherited AI: Models, Runtimes, and Tools Inside Vendor Software

    This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/securing-inherited-ai-models-runtimes-and-tools-inside-vendor-software.


    AI models can enter your infrastructure through vendor software. Learn how to inventory inherited AI, assess its permissions, and manage supply chain risk.
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    This story was written by: @rpinto. Learn more about this writer by checking @rpinto's about page,
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    Vendor software can introduce models, runtimes, retrieval pipelines, and agent tools into an organization’s infrastructure. Security teams should inventory these components, verify provenance, restrict access, and monitor behavior rather than assume existing vendor reviews cover them.

    13 min
  • AI Slop Is Creating a New Kind of Technical Debt

    This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/ai-slop-is-creating-a-new-kind-of-technical-debt.


    AI-generated code can work perfectly and still become a liability. Here’s why comprehension debt may be the real danger of AI coding.
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    AI-generated code can work perfectly and still become a liability. Here’s why comprehension debt may be the real danger of AI coding.

    8 min
  • What the NetNut Takedown Reveals About Residential Proxy Sourcing

    This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/what-the-netnut-takedown-reveals-about-residential-proxy-sourcing.


    NetNut's takedown exposed a structural sourcing problem in residential proxies, and why owned infrastructure is what actually matters.
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    NetNut's residential proxy network was disrupted by the FBI and Google in July 2026, after reporting found a large share of its IP pool was sourced from compromised devices. The deeper issue is structural, most residential proxy brands resell capacity from upstream networks they don't directly control, which makes sourcing nearly impossible for buyers to verify. A small number of providers, including Bright Data and Squid Proxies, own their infrastructure outright instead of reselling, which is the actual difference worth checking before trusting any "ethically sourced" claim.

    5 min
  • SecurityMetrics Contributes to GEAR, Shares AI Solutions at the PCI SSC NA 2026 Community Meeting

    This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/securitymetrics-contributes-to-gear-shares-ai-solutions-at-the-pci-ssc-na-2026-community-meeting.


    SecurityMetrics contributes to GEAR and shares AI solutions at PCI SSC NA Community Meeting.
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    SecurityMetrics is contributing to GEAR and announcing AI solutions at this year's PCI SSC NA Community Meeting.

    4 min
  • How Fraud Rings Hide in Plain Sight: A Confidence-Weighted Framework for Linkage Analysis

    This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/how-fraud-rings-hide-in-plain-sight-a-confidence-weighted-framework-for-linkage-analysis.


    A vendor-neutral framework for weighing links in fraud graphs, limiting risk propagation, and separating associations from reviewed decisions.
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    You can also check exclusive content about #fraud-detection, #speech-recognition, #graph-based-fraud-detection, #fraud-linkage-analysis, #heterophilic-graphs, #risk-propagation, #graph-neural-networks, #fraud-model-evaluation, and more.


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    The article proposes R-U-T-C, a conceptual framework for evaluating the reliability, uniqueness, timing, and corroboration of links in fraud graphs without treating association as automatic guilt.

    17 min
  • 7 Questions for Assessing Cyber Resilience Act Codebase Readiness

    This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/7-questions-for-assessing-cyber-resilience-act-codebase-readiness.


    Assess your codebase for Cyber Resilience Act readiness with seven practical security questions ahead of the EU's 2026 reporting requirements.
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    Assess your codebase for Cyber Resilience Act readiness with seven practical security questions ahead of the EU's 2026 reporting requirements.

    15 min

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