This article demonstrates eight User Account Control bypass techniques on a default-configured Windows 10 host, including Metasploit modules and manual registry hijacks using fodhelper.exe and ComputerDefaults.exe. It also maps each method to practical defenses such as Always Notify UAC, registry monitoring, PowerShell logging, and application whitelisting. #UAC #fodhelper.exe #ComputerDefaults.exe #Metasploit #PowerShell #Sysmon #WDAC #AppLocker
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This walkthrough shows how Nmap can bypass static iptables rules by changing TCP flags, packet length, TTL, source port, MAC/IP spoofing, payload bytes, and options. It concludes that defenders need layered controls like stateful inspection, IDS/IPS, rate limiting, and host-based monitoring rather than relying on iptables alone. #Nmap #iptables
The Cybersecurity Pulse covers a week of major security news, including GitHub’s poisoned VS Code extension incident, the latest DBIR findings, TeamPCP’s malicious durabletask PyPI compromise, and Cloudflare’s testing of Anthropic’s Mythos for exploit chaining. It also highlights new industry moves such as OpenAI’s Daybreak, Akamai’s LayerX acquisition, and Torq’s purchase of Jit as AI reshapes both offensive and defensive security. #GitHub #TeamPCP #durabletask #Mythos #DBIR #Akamai #LayerX #Torq #Jit #OpenAI #Daybreak #Cloudflare
AI models like Mythos are now being used to uncover memory corruption vulnerabilities in firmware and hardware, including a kernel memory flaw in Apple’s M5 chip that powers MacBooks and iPads. This signals a major shift in vulnerability research, as future threats will increasingly target the full technology stack from software to processors and system memory. #Mythos #AppleM5 #MacBooks #iPads #ARM #Apple #Qualcomm #Intel #AMD #Nvidia
Business email compromise caused more than $3 billion in reported losses last year, exploiting trust rather than malware to trick employees into sending money or sharing sensitive information. The article explains seven warning signs that email defenses may be missing BEC attempts, from weak behavioral detection to limited visibility into internal email traffic. #BEC #FBIIC3 #IRONSCALES
This walkthrough shows an end-to-end compromise of the ignite.local Windows Server 2019 domain controller, starting from one low-privileged credential and ending with krbtgt, full domain control, and SYSTEM on an MSSQL host. It uses NetExec, BloodHound, LSASSY, Backup Operators abuse, ForceChangePassword, xp_cmdshell, and PrintSpoofer to map each step of the attack chain and pair it with defenses. #ignite.local #NetExec #BloodHound #LSASSY #PrintSpoofer #xp_cmdshell #krbtgt
The EU is moving forward on multiple regulatory fronts, including AI Act transparency rules, copyright changes for generative AI and piracy, and strengthened oversight of AI, cloud, and cybersecurity risks across public institutions and private organizations. National authorities in Europe and beyond also issued new guidance and enforcement updates on connected glasses, databases, privacy complaints, automated decision-making, and platform obligations for intimate image takedowns. #EUAIAct #EuropeanCommission #EDPS #BSI #CNIL #Datatilsynet #UOOOU #NCSC #ColoradoSB26189 #TakeItDownAct
The CIA triad still provides a useful way to understand LLM security, because major attacks against models like ChatGPT, Copilot, Claude, and Google systems all map to confidentiality, integrity, or availability failures. Johann Rehberger’s “Trust No AI” and related research show how prompt injection, data poisoning, and model denial-of-service exploit these same three pillars in production AI systems. #ChatGPT #Copilot #Claude #Google #TrustNoAI #JohannRehberger
Non-human identities such as service accounts, API keys, OAuth tokens, and AI agents are now the fastest-growing and least-governed attack surface in the enterprise, creating major security, compliance, and breach risks. The article argues that mature governance must go beyond vaulting secrets and include ownership, lifecycle management, least privilege, and continuous auditability for identities like those discussed by One Identity and GigaOm. #OneIdentity #GigaOm #NHI #AIagents
Vibe coding accelerates delivery but also speeds up security mistakes, especially hardcoded secrets, hallucinated dependencies, and insecure code patterns like missing validation and broken authentication. Free tools like Gitleaks, TruffleHog, slopcheck, Socket, and Semgrep can catch these issues before production with only a few minutes of setup. #Gitleaks #TruffleHog #slopcheck #Socket #Semgrep #Cursor
AI has increased the speed and scale of vulnerability discovery, but it has not changed the core NIST security functions or the need for strong fundamentals. Organizations should respond with a Mythos-ready approach built on resilience, automation, continuous VulnOps, phishing-resistant MFA, and tighter segmentation. #Mythos #CrowdStrike #Tenable #HARVEN #Anthropic #ProjectGlasswing
This article explains the CISSP security models in Domain 3 as scenario-based tools rather than memorization lists, helping candidates map confidentiality or integrity requirements to the right model on exam day. It highlights Bell-LaPadula, Biba, Clark-Wilson, and Brewer-Nash as the most useful models to recognize quickly, especially by identifying whether the threat is leakage or corruption. #BellLaPadula #Biba #ClarkWilson #BrewerNash #CISSP
The article highlights how AI is reshaping the CISO role, SOC operations, and security buying decisions, with executives using the Mythos announcement to push for more budget and faster modernization. It also argues that mature SOCs will gain the most from AI, while legacy tiered models, MTTR, and long-term contracts are losing relevance in a machine-speed threat landscape. #Mythos #Intezer #AVERT #WCGClinical #BlackhawkNetwork #OscarHealth #ServiceNow #CyberArk #Nasdaq
Mozilla used an agentic harness with Anthropic’s Claude Mythos Preview to test Firefox 150, and the setup found 271 vulnerabilities with fewer than 15 false positives by using AddressSanitizer crashes as the proof signal. The result shows that the harness and verification pipeline mattered more than the model alone, while Firefox’s prior hardening blocked some sandbox escape attempts through prototype pollution. #Mozilla #ClaudeMythosPreview #Firefox #AddressSanitizer
The EU, Germany, Portugal, Austria, Canada, Colorado, and Iowa all advanced major AI-related legal and regulatory measures in May 2026, ranging from revised AI Act timelines and data retention rules to new obligations for AI literacy, disclosure, and safety. At the same time, the World Economic Forum reported that AI is now an operational backbone of cyber defence, while Canada’s investigation into ChatGPT highlighted serious privacy and accountability gaps in OpenAI’s practices. #EUAIAct #ANACOM #OpenAI #ChatGPT #ColoradoSB26189 #IowaSF2417 #WorldEconomicForum