Researchers and threat hunters are scrambling to respond to an actively exploited authentication-bypass vulnerability affecting Palo Alto Networks customers’ firewalls. The company initially tagged CVE-2026-0257 with a medium-severity rating when it disclosed the defect May 13, but quickly reassessed it as critical after Rapid7 observed and confirmed active exploitation in the wild. The Cybersecurity and…
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Corporate America Is Starting to Ration AI as Cost Skyrockets
Executives are scrambling to track returns on AI investments as the bill for massive computing needs comes due.
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Flawed Cisco update threatens to stop APs from getting further patches
Cisco admins are scrambling to patch a critical flash memory overflow vulnerability in over 200 Cisco Systems IOS XE-based models of wireless access points (APs), caused by a recent flawed software update. If the issue is not corrected quickly, the AP’s memory will become so flooded that new software updates will be blocked and the…
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Ubiquiti defect poses account takeover risk for UniFi Networking Application users
Researchers and threat hunters are scrambling to contain a maximum-severity defect in Ubiquiti’s UniFi Network Application that attackers could exploit to take over user accounts by accessing and manipulating files. The path-traversal vulnerability — CVE-2026-22557 — affects software used to manage UniFi networking devices, including access points, gateways and switches. The vendor disclosed and released…
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University of Mississippi Medical Center Still Offline After Ransomware Attack
University of Mississippi Medical Center is still scrambling to respond to a ransomware attack last Thursday