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ExternalSoftware Engineering

DZone20 Jul 2026

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

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ExternalCybersecurity

SANS Internet Storm Center20 Jul 2026

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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ExternalCybersecurity

Dark Reading20 Jul 2026

Attackers Combo Up Evasion Tactics for BEC Phishing

"The TFF Trap" uses fileless techniques and loaders with low detection rates to deploy various RATs and stealers, including Agent Tesla, Remcos, XWorm, and Best Private Logger.

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ExternalSoftware Engineering

GitHub Changelog20 Jul 2026

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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The Hacker News20 Jul 2026

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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ExternalTechnology Trends

Hacker News20 Jul 2026