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ExternalCybersecurity
Dark Reading

CISOs Feel the Heat Over AI Risk

Job pressures have increased as companies run headlong into AI adoption, causing 26% of top security executives to consider leaving their position.

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ExternalSoftware Engineering
DZone

Scaling Row-Level Security With ABAC on Databricks Unity Catalog

Onboarding a new table into row-level security should be four lines of metadata. Not two new objects, a code review, and a platform-team ticket. This post describes a tag-driven attribute-based access control (ABAC) pattern built on Databricks Unity Catalog primitives that achieves the objective of one UDF per filter shape, one policy per shape, and a single control table that drives all per-group authorization logic. I work as a solutions architect with large enterprises running hundreds of tab

ExternalCybersecurity
SANS Internet Storm Center

WordPress Exploitation Underway (CVE-2026-63030), (Mon, Jul 20th)

Last week, Searchlight Cyber released details about a vulnerability they are calling "wp2shell". The vulnerability was initially announced without a CVE number. But now has been assigned CVE-2026-63030. Many WordPress plugin vulnerabilities are never assigned CVE numbers. But wp2shell is different. It is a SQL injection vulnerability in WordPress Core, not a plugin, and can lead to unauthenticated remote code execution. Shortly after being announced, the vulnerability started to be exploited.

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ExternalSoftware Engineering
GitHub Changelog

AI credit pools for cost centers in the billing UI

You can now manage a cost center’s AI credit pool directly in the billing UI where you create and edit cost centers. Previously, you could only manage this through the… The post AI credit pools for cost centers in the billing UI appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

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External
The Hacker News

FakeGit Campaign Uses 7,600 GitHub Repositories to Spread SmartLoader Malware

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered nearly 7,600 malicious GitHub repositories, out of which more than 800 pose as artificial intelligence (AI) skills or Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers to deliver a malware family known as SmartLoader as part of an ongoing campaign codenamed FakeGit. "FakeGit uses copied projects, lookalike developer profiles, convincing READMEs, and malicious ZIP

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