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How to verify certificate renewal actually worked

On May 21, 2019, LinkedIn’s URL shortener went down. The certificate had expired. Millions of people cried out in terror when they couldn’t click on AI link bait. The interesting part: LinkedIn had renewed the certificate ten days earlier. The renewal succeeded. The certificate just never made it to the server. The renewed cert existed somewhere, but the server still served the old one. Most certificate automation is built to prevent the “I forgot to renew” problem.

How to migrate hundreds of Splunk SPL queries using AI

Discover how AI can convert and migrate hundreds of Splunk SPL queries efficiently while providing detailed explanations for validation. Learn how to reduce manual effort and speed up SIEM transitions. Additional Resources: About Elastic Elastic, the Search AI Company, enables everyone to find the answers they need in real time, using all their data, at scale. Elastic’s solutions for search, observability, and security are built on the Elastic Search AI Platform — the development platform used by thousands of companies, including more than 50% of the Fortune 500.

Drones vs. data centers, Iranian cyber, Sloppy Lemming & Honeywell vulnerability / Intel Chat [300]

In this episode of The Cybersecurity Defenders Podcast, we discuss some intel being shared in the LimaCharlie community. Support our show by sharing your favorite episodes with a friend, subscribe, give us a rating or leave a comment on your podcast platform. This podcast is brought to you by LimaCharlie, maker of the SecOps Cloud Platform, infrastructure for SecOps where everything is built API first. Scale with confidence as your business grows.

OpenClaw: Cato Governance Controls and Sector Exposure Insights from the Cato SASE Platform

Agentic AI does not just answer, it acts. The moment an agent has a reachable control plane, you have effectively created a “remote hands” interface into your environment. In our recent blog post, “When AI Can Act: Governing OpenClaw,” we explained why this shift breaks old security assumptions and why governance must be continuous, enforced, and context-aware rather than a one-time checklist.

Polymorphic Viruses and Their Impact on Cybersecurity

A polymorphic virus is one of the hardest types of malware to detect because it can change into different forms. Because these advanced threats can modify their code in specific ways, they are very hard for standard signature-based antivirus systems to detect. Polymorphic viruses, on the other hand, use dynamic code encryption and mutation engines to alter their code structure, making them even harder to detect. The need for strong defenses has never been greater as hackers continue to use these methods.