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Microsoft fixed 1,411 flaws this week, its fourth record release in five months. Cyber insurer Coalition says it sent 49 zero-day alerts in the three months to 1 August, and most policyholders got none. Its picks show how vulnerability prioritization works, and what an insurer’s alerts can’t see. Microsoft fixed 1,411 security flaws on 13 … Read more
Contrast Security has launched CVE Shield, a runtime tool that blocks exploitation of known vulnerabilities inside live applications. A free tier arrives August 3, with a waitlist open now. The pitch is timing. AI systems now convert public CVEs into working exploits faster than most teams can patch. In April, Anthropic reported its Claude Mythos … Read more
Financial institutions now face danger from two directions at once. Attackers are striking them directly again. Their vendors are springing new leaks at the same time. Black Kite calls it a two-front crisis. Direct ransomware attacks jumped 76% in the first quarter of 2026, year over year. Half of the sector’s vendors now carry critical … Read more
Verizon’s 2026 DBIR Covers 22,000 Confirmed Breaches Across 145 Countries For years, the answer to “how did they get in?” was the same: a stolen password. That answer changed in 2025. Verizon’s 2026 Data Breach Investigations Report, the 19th annual edition and the largest dataset the report has ever produced, finds vulnerability exploitation has overtaken … Read more
Contrast Labs Puts A Price Tag On The AI Security Scanning Promise The idea seems straightforward: use an AI model to scan your codebase, wait an hour, and get a security report. There are no agents, no extra setup, and no need for a high-paid analyst. But when Contrast Labs put this to the test … Read more