The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency added four vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, including a set of flaws in Plex Media Server known as Plex2Shell. Security researchers reported that threat actors are chaining these issues to deploy cryptocurrency miners and proxy malware without authentication. CISA also flagged a DLL sideloading bug in…
The U.S. Treasury reported that debt-service spending hit a record $1.36 trillion for fiscal year 2026. The fiscal deficit expanded to $1.99 trillion as government spending reached $7.40 trillion, exceeding record tax receipts of $5.40 trillion. This increase in borrowing has added pressure to long-term Treasury bond prices, with the iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond…
A developer guide explains how to satisfy NIST SP 800-53 CM-3(6) by replacing manual tracking with automated cryptographic management. The article advocates for Cryptography-as-Code, using Infrastructure-as-Code tools like Terraform to define TLS policies and key lengths. It details integrating automated Certificate Authorities via the ACME protocol to enable zero-downtime rotation of certificates and keys. The…
The Department of Homeland Security is forecasting a follow-on contract for financial reporting and system modernization support. The requirement supports the Office of Financial Management within ICE, combining accounting analysis with business process transformation. The scope includes financial statement reconciliations, general ledger analysis, and mapping processes for the Financial System Modernization target state. Hamilton is…
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency released six new advisories on 10/20/2026. These documents address current security issues, vulnerabilities, and exploits affecting industrial control systems. The advisories cover products from HMS Networks, WAGO, Moxa, and Hitachi Energy. CISA encourages users and administrators to review the technical details and recommended mitigations provided in the releases. Read…
Two U.S. senators stated that a new report on spyware delivery via targeted ads highlights the need for stronger industry security. The Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto and Confiant published findings on a technique called AdFection that uses ads to install spyware. Senators Ron Wyden and Cory Booker argued that the report proves…
CISA has added one new vulnerability to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog based on evidence of active exploitation. The specific flaw is CVE-2026-114625, an SQL injection vulnerability in Arista VeloCloud Orchestrator. This addition aligns with Binding Operational Directive 26-04, which requires Federal Civilian Executive Branch agencies to prioritize rapid remediation of high-risk vulnerabilities listed in…
What Actually Counts as an AI Agent? The label gets applied to everything from a Zapier workflow with an AI step to a system that plans, codes, tests and deploys software on its own. That matters, because the price gap between those two things runs from nothing to several hundred dollars a month.
At the same time, an increasing number of deployed AI systems are no longer best understood as isolated inference engines. Instead, they take the form of agents: computational entities that persist over time, initiate actions, pursue goals, and interact continuously with their environments.
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