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CISA Adds Seven Exploited Flaws as Attackers Deploy Reverse Shells and Crypto Miners

Today’s signal The Hacker News recently reported CISA Adds Seven Exploited Flaws as Attackers Deploy Reverse Shells and Crypto Miners. Published context: September 3, 2026. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Wednesday added seven security flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog after they landed in attackers’ crosshairs. The vulnerabilities are as follows - CVE-2026-83548 (CVSS score: 10.0) - A server-side request forgery vulnerability in SonicWall SMA 1000 Appliances that cou ...

Amazon Quick adds new tool settings and Model Context Protocol (MCP) sync support for connec...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon Quick adds new tool settings and Model Context Protocol (MCP) sync support for connectors. Published context: September 2, 2026. Amazon Quick connectors let users leverage tools and services such as Outlook, Slack, Salesforce, Jira, and homegrown MCP servers directly into their workflows across chat, agents, apps, flows, and deep research. Today, Amazon Quick introduces new tool settings and MCP sync support that give admins and connector owners more control over how connectors are de ...

AWS Config now supports 60 new resource types

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported AWS Config now supports 60 new resource types. Published context: September 2, 2026. AWS Config now supports 60 additional AWS resource types across key services including Amazon Bedrock, Amazon EC2, Amazon SageMaker, and AWS Organizations. This expansion provides greater coverage over your AWS environment, enabling you to more effectively discover, assess, audit, and remediate an even broader range of resources. With this launch, if you hav ...

AWS Lambda now supports SnapStart for container image functions

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported AWS Lambda now supports SnapStart for container image functions. Published context: September 2, 2026. Starting today, AWS Lambda supports SnapStart for functions packaged as container images , reducing startup times from several seconds to as low as sub-second. Lambda SnapStart is an opt-in capability that makes it easier for you to build highly responsive and scalable applications without provisioning resources or implementing complex performance optimizati ...

Attackers Exploit Two SonicWall SMA 1000 Zero-Days That May Form an Attack Chain

Today’s signal The Hacker News recently reported Attackers Exploit Two SonicWall SMA 1000 Zero-Days That May Form an Attack Chain. Published context: September 2, 2026. SonicWall has released security updates to address two security flaws impacting its Secure Mobile Access (SMA) 1000 series VPN appliances that have been exploited in zero-day attacks. The vulnerabilities, discovered internally by SonicWall’s William Perry and Adam Babis, are listed below - CVE-2026-83548 (CVSS score: 10.0) - A pre-authentication SSRF vulnera ...

Automated Security Response on AWS adds AI Toolkit for custom remediations

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Automated Security Response on AWS adds AI Toolkit for custom remediations. Published context: August 31, 2026. Today, AWS announced four new capabilities for Automated Security Response on AWS (ASR). Customers can now use an AI-driven Toolkit that generates custom remediations using any AI assistant with built-in safety guardrails. In addition, customers can automatically remediate findings from Amazon Inspector, Amazon GuardDuty, and Amazon Macie. Customers can also ...

Amazon CloudWatch Database Insights now supports self-managed PostgreSQL

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon CloudWatch Database Insights now supports self-managed PostgreSQL. Published context: September 1, 2026. Today, AWS announces support for self-managed PostgreSQL databases in Amazon CloudWatch Database Insights. Using CloudWatch Database Insights, you can now monitor your self-managed PostgreSQL instances running on Amazon EC2, alongside Amazon RDS and Amazon Aurora, to give you a complete view of your database fleet in a single console. Amazon CloudWatch Datab ...

Launch HN: Nori Robotics (YC S26) – A low-cost humanoid robot for development

Today’s signal Hacker News recently reported Launch HN: Nori Robotics (YC S26) – A low-cost humanoid robot for development. Published context: September 1, 2026. Hey HN, I’m Antonio from Nori Robotics ( https://norirobotics.com ). We build a $1,688 bimanual mobile robot in San Francisco for robotics developers and researchers. I started working on Nori while doing robotics research at Columbia. I was teaching robots through human demonstrations, but getting my hands on affordable hardware was difficult. Most labs hav ...

Amazon Redshift now supports AWS IAM Identity Center authentication with enhanced VPC routing

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon Redshift now supports AWS IAM Identity Center authentication with enhanced VPC routing. Published context: August 31, 2026. Amazon Redshift now supports AWS IAM Identity Center authentication for provisioned clusters and serverless workgroups configured with enhanced VPC routing (EVR). You can access Amazon Redshift with single sign-on with your corporate credentials, and the traffic traverses Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) and stays on the AWS network. This is valuabl ...

AWS Agent Registry agents and MCP servers now available in Amazon Quick

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported AWS Agent Registry agents and MCP servers now available in Amazon Quick. Published context: August 31, 2026. Today, Amazon Quick announces integration with AWS Agent Registry, enabling users to discover and use resources from their organization’s AWS Agent Registry directly within Amazon Quick. AWS Agent Registry supports MCP servers and agents, which users can now search and browse directly within Amazon Quick. After finding the agent or MCP server they need, user ...

Amazon EC2 R9g and R9gd memory optimized instances are now available

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon EC2 R9g and R9gd memory optimized instances are now available. Published context: August 31, 2026. Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) R9g and R9gd instances, powered by AWS Graviton5 processors, are generally available. AWS Graviton5 processors are the fifth generation of custom-designed CPUs, delivering the best price performance for memory-intensive workloads running on Amazon EC2. R9g instances are ideal for memory-intensive work ...

AWS Workload Credentials Provider is now available as a one-click install for Linux and Windows

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported AWS Workload Credentials Provider is now available as a one-click install for Linux and Windows. Published context: August 31, 2026. Today, AWS Secrets Manager announces one-click installation for the AWS Workload Credentials Provider (AWCP) on Amazon Linux and Windows, reducing setup from a multi-step build-from-source process to a single command. AWCP resolves secrets from AWS Secrets Manager and caches them locally, enabling applications to retrieve secrets over a local HTTP endpoint. ...