Today’s signal The Hacker News recently reported Attackers Exploit VMware vCenter Vulnerability to Gain Persistent Remote Access. Published context: August 12, 2026. Threat actors have begun to actively exploit a recently patched critical security flaw in Broadcom VMware vCenter, according to new findings from QUIRSO. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2026-59310 (CVSS score: 9.8), a directory-traversal vulnerability in the VMware vCenter server that a malicious actor with network access can exploit to execute arbitrar ...

Today’s signal AWS Architecture Blog recently reported Track generative AI costs with Amazon Bedrock inference profiles. Published context: August 13, 2026. Learn how to track generative AI costs by department using Amazon Bedrock application inference profiles and AWS cost allocation tags. Create tagged profiles for each team and view per-department cost breakdowns in AWS Cost Explorer. 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. ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon RDS for MariaDB now supports MariaDB 12.3. Published context: August 11, 2026. Starting today, Amazon RDS for MariaDB supports MariaDB major version 12.3, the latest Long-Term Support release from the MariaDB community. This release supports MariaDB 12.3.2 minor version. MariaDB 12.3 includes Oracle TO_DATE() function compatibility, reducing the code changes needed when migrating applications from Oracle to MariaDB. It adds an IS JSON ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon SES click tracking now supports custom URL paths for mobile app deep linking. Published context: August 14, 2026. Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) now makes it easier to support mobile deep linking with the new ses:custom-path HTML attribute. When you add this attribute to an tag, SES carries your path segment through to the tracking URL, so mobile operating systems can match it to your app’s Universal Links (iOS) or App Links (Android) configuration. This enables ...

Today’s signal The Hacker News recently reported Adobe Patches Three CVSS 10.0 ColdFusion and Campaign Classic Flaws. Published context: August 12, 2026. Adobe has shipped updates to address multiple critical security vulnerabilities impacting ColdFusion, Commerce, and Campaign Classic that, if successfully exploited, could result in arbitrary code execution and privilege escalation. The most severe of the flaws are listed below - CVE-2026-48362 (CVSS score: 10.0) - An operating system command injection vulne ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Claude Opus 5 is now available in AWS GovCloud (US). Published context: August 13, 2026. AWS GovCloud (US) now offers Claude Opus 5 — the most advanced Opus model yet, and compatible with zero data retention (ZDR) — bringing a step-change in coding, long-running agents, and complex professional work to teams building at the highest level. Claude Opus 5 is available via the bedrock-runtime endpoint in both AWS GovCloud (US) regions, and available ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported AWS Certificate Manager supports switching from e-mail to DNS validation. Published context: August 13, 2026. AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) now enables you to change the domain validation method on your existing ACM issued public TLS certificates from e-mail to DNS, without reissuing the certificate or changing its existing Amazon Resource Name (ARN). Due to the Certification Authority/Browser (CA/B) Forum’s mandated deprecation of email-based domain validation for ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports Oracle Application Express (APEX) version 26.1. Published context: August 14, 2026. Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for Oracle now supports Oracle Application Express (APEX) version 26.1. Amazon RDS for Oracle is a managed database service that makes it simple to set up, operate, and scale Oracle Database deployments in the cloud. Oracle APEX is a low-code development platform that enables developers to build scalable, secur ...

Today’s signal The Hacker News recently reported Attackers Exploit SharePoint Authentication Bypass After Public PoC Release. Published context: August 13, 2026. Threat actors have begun to exploit a newly disclosed Microsoft SharePoint vulnerability following the release of a proof-of-concept (PoC) code. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2026-55040 (CVSS score: 9.1), which refers to a critical security feature bypass that stems from weak authentication. It was patched by Microsoft as part of its July 2026 Patch T ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon Nova Multimodal Embeddings is now available in AWS GovCloud (US-West). Published context: August 12, 2026. We are excited to announce the general availability of Amazon Nova Multimodal Embeddings, a state-of-the-art embedding model for agentic RAG and semantic search, in AWS GovCloud (US-West). It is the first unified embedding model that supports text, documents, images, video, and audio through a single model, to enable cross-modal retrieval with leading accura ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported AWS Billing and Cost Management introduces Managed Dashboards. Published context: August 14, 2026. AWS Billing and Cost Management (BCM) Dashboards now include Managed Dashboards. These are a collection of preconfigured and read-only dashboards located in your dashboard list. They deliver actionable cost insights with your account data pre-populated without setup. There are five curated dashboards. Cost Overview & Trends tracks your spending patterns acro ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Daybreak Red and Daybreak Blue from OpenAI are now available to eligible customers on Amazon Bedrock. Published context: August 13, 2026. Security teams can now access Daybreak Red and Daybreak Blue from OpenAI on Amazon Bedrock. Both are part of Daybreak, the cyber defense initiative from OpenAI that gives defenders governed access to frontier AI for cybersecurity work. Daybreak Blue is the starting point for most security teams across defensive workflows including vulnerability discovery, de ...