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You Don't Have to Run an Exploit to Know If You're Vulnerable

Many vulnerabilities cannot be safely validated with live exploits, either because no exploit exists or the affected systems are too critical to test. Picus explains how TTP chaining helps organizations determine exploitability by validating the attack techniques an exploit depends on, without launching the exploit itself. [...]

AWS Glue ETL Design Principles for Production PySpark Pipelines

AWS Glue makes it easy to get a PySpark pipeline running quickly. It is significantly harder to build one that stays maintainable as logic grows, performs reliably at scale, and does not quietly accumulate operational debt over time. Most Glue pipelines start simple and become difficult to manage gradually — formulas get hardcoded, modules grow without boundaries, output files proliferate, and before long a single job is doing too many things in ways that are hard to test, hard to debug, and exp

Inside Shopify Hack Days: Building a prototype for music-playing pages

7 Severe Vulnerabilities Patched in VMware Avi Load Balancer

The flaws can be exploited for authentication bypass, remote code execution, privilege escalation, and directory traversal. The post 7 Severe Vulnerabilities Patched in VMware Avi Load Balancer appeared first on SecurityWeek.

RabbitMQ Flaws Could Leak OAuth Secrets and Expose Cross-Tenant Queue Metadata

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of two access control-related flaws impacting the RabbitMQ message broker service that could allow attackers to leak OAuth client secrets, expose enterprise messaging infrastructure to takeover risks, and bypass tenant boundaries. Miggo's security team, which discovered and reported the flaws, said one "leaks the broker's confidential OAuth

Boomers, not Gen Z, are the generation cutting back most on alcohol

New research overturns assumption that abstinent younger drinkers are behind weak demand.

Automated Incident Remediation with AWS DevOps Agent and Kiro CLI

Introduction Automated incident remediation – turning investigation findings into deployed fixes without manual toil – is the next frontier for operations teams running distributed workloads on AWS. Today, when an incident fires at 2 AM, the on-call engineer must correlate telemetry across Amazon CloudWatch, deployment pipelines, and application logs, then manually write and deploy a […]