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Cisco FMC Flaws Exploited to Steal Credentials and Deploy Qilin Ransomware
Today’s signal The Hacker News recently reported Cisco FMC Flaws Exploited to Steal Credentials and Deploy Qilin Ransomware. Published context: September 11, 2026. Cisco has revealed that three distinct threat clusters linked to ransomware and state-sponsored attacks have been exploiting two recently patched Secure Firewall Management Center (FMC) vulnerabilities. The attacks leverage CVE-2026-20079 (CVSS score: 10.0), an authentication bypass vulnerability in the web interface of FMC software that could allow an unaut ...
AWS Systems Manager now diagnoses more issues that cause EC2 instances to be unmanaged
Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported AWS Systems Manager now diagnoses more issues that cause EC2 instances to be unmanaged. Published context: September 9, 2026. Today, AWS Systems Manager extends its diagnosis capability to identify six additional categories of issues that can prevent Amazon EC2 instances and hybrid-activated nodes from becoming managed by Systems Manager. An instance must be managed by Systems Manager before you can patch it, run commands, connect with Session Manager, or collect inventory, and whe ...
AWS Lambda recursive loop detection is now available in Europe Sovereign Cloud
Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported AWS Lambda recursive loop detection is now available in Europe Sovereign Cloud. Published context: September 10, 2026. AWS Lambda recursive loop detection is now supported for functions running in Europe Sovereign Cloud. Recursive loop detection automatically detects and stops recursive invocations between Lambda functions and other supported services, preventing unexpected billing caused by unintended recursive loops. Customers use event sources such as Amazon S3, Amazon SQ ...
OpenAI Agents API
Today’s signal Hacker News recently reported OpenAI Agents API. Published context: September 10, 2026. Article URL: https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/guides/agents-api/overview Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49649213 Points: 282 # Comments: 159 The reason this matters is simple: buyers are paying attention to speed, operational resilience, and credible technical execution. A trending story can create awareness, but the business question is what a team should do with that attention. The service angle: DevOps Without Hiring For founders and engineering leaders with no senior DevOps owner, this points back to a practical operating need: senior AWS and DevOps capacity without opening a $180k req - an agent that answers day to day, and quoted work when something needs building. ...
Researcher Drops New Microsoft Defender PoC Showing ShieldBreak Patch Can Be Bypassed
Today’s signal The Hacker News recently reported Researcher Drops New Microsoft Defender PoC Showing ShieldBreak Patch Can Be Bypassed. Published context: September 9, 2026. The security researcher known as Chaotic Eclipse has dropped a proof-of-concept (PoC) for yet another zero-day in Microsoft Defender. The vulnerability, codenamed ShieldCrash, is assessed to be a patch bypass for CVE-2026-69414 (CVSS score: 7.8), also called ShieldBreak, which the researcher reported last month. “Microsoft has failed to properly patch Shield ...
Amazon Bedrock Managed Knowledge Base now supports Confluence Data Center as a native data s...
Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon Bedrock Managed Knowledge Base now supports Confluence Data Center as a native data source connector. Published context: September 9, 2026. AWS announces the Confluence Data Center data source connector for Amazon Bedrock Managed Knowledge Base, a fully managed retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) service. Customers running self-hosted Confluence Data Center instances can now crawl blogs and pages from their Confluence spaces directly into their managed knowledge base. Previously, bringing Confl ...
AWS Lambda now supports 90-minute function timeout on Lambda Managed Instances
Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported AWS Lambda now supports 90-minute function timeout on Lambda Managed Instances. Published context: September 9, 2026. AWS Lambda now supports a 90-minute function timeout for asynchronous and event source mapping (ESM) invocations on Lambda Managed Instances (LMI) , a 6x increase from the previous 15-minute limit. You can now run data processing, media transcoding, financial calculations, AI inference, and batch workloads on Lambda for jobs that require longer continuous ex ...
Microsoft Patches Record 974 Flaws, Including Two Exploited Windows Zero-Days
Today’s signal The Hacker News recently reported Microsoft Patches Record 974 Flaws, Including Two Exploited Windows Zero-Days. Published context: September 9, 2026. Microsoft on Tuesday broke Patch Tuesday records by addressing an earth-shattering 974 vulnerabilities spanning its software portfolio, including two flaws that it said have been actively exploited in the wild. These include 723 flaws in Windows, 111 in Office and Office 2016, 62 in SQL, and 22 in Developer Tools. Of these, over 110 shortcomings have been as ...
Webinar: Learn How to Answer “Are We Exposed?” Faster After a New CVE
Today’s signal The Hacker News recently reported Webinar: Learn How to Answer “Are We Exposed?” Faster After a New CVE. Published context: September 9, 2026. A major vulnerability is disclosed. The alert lands immediately. Then comes the harder question: Are we actually exposed? For many security teams, answering that means jumping between vulnerability scanners, endpoint tools, cloud inventories, SBOMs, repositories, and application data to build enough context to act. As AI accelerates vulnerability discovery a ...
AWS announces Nx Plugin for AWS for scaffolding full-stack applications
Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported AWS announces Nx Plugin for AWS for scaffolding full-stack applications. Published context: September 8, 2026. Version 1.0 of the Nx Plugin for AWS, an open source toolkit for scaffolding full-stack applications on AWS, is now available. AI assistants can stand up an application on AWS in minutes, but rarely get security, observability, and type-safety right in one pass. The plugin extends Nx, an open source, language-agnostic build system for monorepos, with generat ...
Amazon RDS for MariaDB now supports community MariaDB minor versions 10.6.28, 10.11.19, 11.4...
Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon RDS for MariaDB now supports community MariaDB minor versions 10.6.28, 10.11.19, 11.4.13, 11.8.9, and 12.3.3. Published context: September 8, 2026. Starting today, Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for MariaDB now supports MariaDB minor versions 10.6.28, 10.11.19, 11.4.13, 11.8.9, and 12.3.3, the latest minors released by community MariaDB. In addition to operational improvements, these minor versions introduce support for post-quantum TLS (PQ-TLS) key exchange, providing you with post-qua ...
OpenAI GPT-6 Astra is now generally available on Amazon Bedrock
Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported OpenAI GPT-6 Astra is now generally available on Amazon Bedrock. Published context: September 8, 2026. Today, AWS announces the general availability of GPT-6 Astra from OpenAI on Amazon Bedrock. The latest and most capable model from OpenAI to date, GPT-6 Astra brings deeper reasoning and judgment, professional-quality writing and design, and advanced computer and browser use to demanding business workflows. It supports a context window of up to 1 million inp ...