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cloudflare

BGP Role model: tracking the adoption of RFC 9234

Aug 18, 2026 By Bryton Herdes, Iliana Xygkou, and Mingwei Zhang In Cloudflare
Route leaks push traffic down paths it was never meant to take. We have written and spoken publicly in the past about route leaks in Border Gateway Protocol (BGP), depicting these events as impactful incidents that cause misdirection of traffic through unintended network paths. BGP routing is driven by the relationships between Autonomous Systems (ASes), i.e., customer-provider and peer-peer.
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certkit

TLS 1.2 isn't end of life, but it will be soon

Aug 18, 2026 By Todd H. Gardner In CertKit
You’re probably running a TLS configuration that the IETF says is “non-conformant”. But you didn’t do anything wrong. In July, the IETF published a pair of RFCs that took away three of TLS 1.2’s key exchange methods and froze the rest of it. The phrase they used is MUST NOT, the strongest thing a specification is allowed to say. Nginx, Apache, and Windows Server all ship with those key exchanges turned on by default. Nothing breaks tomorrow.
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cycognito

Emerging Threat: (CVE-2026-19478) GitLab Unauthenticated Project Deletion via GraphQL Directive

Aug 18, 2026 By Igal Zeifman In CyCognito
CVE-2026-19478 is a code injection vulnerability in GitLab Community Edition and Enterprise Edition, caused by improper handling of a GraphQL directive in the application’s API layer. GitLab disclosed the issue and shipped fixes in an ad hoc critical patch release on August 17, 2026, outside its normal twice-monthly security schedule. The vulnerability carries a CVSS base score of 9.4 (Critical) as assigned by GitLab. Exploitation requires no authentication and no user interaction.
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cycognito

Emerging Threat: GeoServer Zero-Day SQL Injection via jsonArrayContains

Aug 18, 2026 By Igal Zeifman In CyCognito
An unauthenticated SQL injection vulnerability exists in the jsonArrayContains filter function in GeoTools, the geospatial library that underpins GeoServer. When an OGC filter is evaluated against a PostGIS data store, the value passed to jsonArrayContains is written into the generated SQL statement without escaping, allowing an attacker to alter the query the database executes.
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Slow Ventures on backing founders before the market catches up - S3E15

Aug 18, 2026 By Persona In Persona
In this episode, we're excited to introduce Yoni Rechtman, Partner at Slow Ventures, a generalist early-stage venture firm that has deployed over $1 billion since 2011 across fintech, SaaS, crypto, consumer, healthcare, and the creator economy, with a portfolio that includes Airtable, Gusto, Robinhood, Venmo, Solana, and Ro. Yoni leads the firm's New York presence and joined as Partner in January 2025 after three years as Principal, following five years at Tusk Ventures where he rose from Analyst to Principal.
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keeper

Keeper Security Issues Cybersecurity Guidance for Education IT Teams As Students Return to Campus

Aug 18, 2026 By Anne Cutler In Keeper
Every fall, school districts and universities across the country race to onboard thousands of new students, faculty and staff, provisioning accounts, issuing credentials and connecting a wave of new devices to institutional networks. It is a moment of organized chaos, and cybercriminals know it.
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keeper

What To Know About the US Water Cyber Attacks

Aug 18, 2026 By Ashley D'Andrea In Keeper
In late July 2026, over 30 municipal water systems across Minnesota were targeted in coordinated cyber attacks that disrupted the Operational Technology (OT) used to remotely monitor and control water equipment. The attacks initially unfolded on July 26 and 27, striking multiple automated control systems across the state, including those in Plymouth, Braham and South St. Paul.
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