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A tidal wave of bug reports is overwhelming software vendors, exposing secure-by-design failures and creating disclosure bottlenecks.
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Microsoft is working to resolve an ongoing Exchange Online outage that is delaying email sent to and received from external domains. [...]
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Dubbed PostGREShell, CVE-2026-6471 turns low-level replication access into code execution, permanent superuser privileges and a persistent database backdoor. The post 12-Year-Old PostgreSQL Vulnerability Enables Database, Server Takeover appeared first on SecurityWeek.
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Nine seconds. That's how long it took an AI coding agent to delete a production database and its backups at PocketOS, a car-rental software vendor, in April 2026. By founder Jer Crane's account, an AI coding agent hit a credential mismatch during a routine staging task, searched the codebase, and found an API token in an unrelated file. That token carried blanket permissions across the Railway infrastructure API. The agent used the token. Database and backups were gone before anyone noticed. Nob
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