TL;DR SonicWall disclosed critical flaws in its GMS and Email Security products on August 11, 2026. The most severe is a SonicWall GMS vulnerability, CVE-2026-66147, scoring CVSS 9.4. It allows un…

TL;DR Cisco disclosed a Cisco ASA and FTD VPN vulnerability on August 11, 2026. Tracked as CVE-2026-20349 (CVSS 8.6), it lets an unauthenticated attacker crash the firewall remotely. Cisco confirm…

Apple capped how many security reports a researcher can file. The cap is a symptom. The real change is that discovery stopped being the…

TL;DR Google shipped a new Chrome security update on the Stable channel. It fixes five high-severity use-after-free flaws across V8, Blink, HTML, TabStrip, and Extensions. No exploitation in the w…

TL;DR Microsoft August 2026 Patch Tuesday fixes 421 vulnerabilities, with 62 rated critical. One flaw, CVE-2026-68820, is already exploited in the wild. Microsoft also patched two other zero-days …

TL;DR Zoom released four security bulletins on August 11, 2026. Two of the flaws allow remote code execution against meeting participants. Each Zoom security vulnerability now has a fix, so users …

A command injection that fires before any sandbox exists, a V8 isolate that protects the wrong half of your module, and an XSS in the OAuth…

TL;DR A researcher has published a public PoC called ShieldBreak. It bypasses Microsoft’s July patch for the RoguePlanet Windows Defender flaw, CVE-2026-50656. The exploit escalates a standa…

In cybersecurity, red teaming and vulnerability research are often treated as two different skill sets.

A field guide to auth bypass, privilege escalation, and RCE, using two real bugs from this week’s Patch Tuesday.