DevOps

Today’s signal The Hacker News recently reported Fastjson 1.x RCE Vulnerability Targeted in Attacks With No Patched Available. Published context: July 25, 2026. Security firms ThreatBook and Imperva say attackers are targeting a critical flaw in Fastjson, Alibaba’s JSON library for Java. In affected Spring Boot applications, a malicious JSON request can execute code without authentication, with the privileges of the Java process. Tracked as CVE-2026-16723, the vulnerability carries an Alibaba-assigned CVSS score of ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery is now available in six additional AWS Regions. Published context: July 21, 2026. AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery (AWS DRS) is now available in six additional AWS Regions: Asia Pacific (Bangkok), Asia Pacific (Malaysia), Asia Pacific (New Zealand), Asia Pacific (Taipei), Canada West (Calgary), and Mexico (Central). Elastic Disaster Recovery is the recommended service for disaster recovery to AWS. It helps minimize downtime and data loss wit ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Opus 4.8, Sonnet 5, and User Activity Monitoring now available on Kiro in AWS GovCloud (US). Published context: July 24, 2026. Two new models are now available in the Kiro IDE and CLI for the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. Claude Opus 4.8 is the most intelligent Opus model, delivering stronger self-verification, more efficient tool calling, and better follow-through on long-horizon projects. It plans before it edits, catches its own mistakes, and finds creative paths around obstacles in ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported AWS Lambda now publishes logs for Lambda Managed Instances capacity providers. Published context: July 24, 2026. AWS Lambda now publishes logs for Lambda Managed Instances (LMI) capacity providers to Amazon CloudWatch Logs, giving you visibility into scaling activity and instance lifecycle operations. LMI enables you to run Lambda functions on Amazon EC2 instances while maintaining serverless operational simplicity. Capacity providers are resources that let you define ...

Today’s signal The Hacker News recently reported ChatGPT AgentForger Flaw Could Deploy Rogue Workspace Agents via a Phishing Link. Published context: July 24, 2026. Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a critical vulnerability in OpenAI’s ChatGPT Workspace Agents that could have allowed a single phishing link to stealthily build, authorize, and deploy an autonomous artificial intelligence (AI) agent inside a victim’s organization. The vulnerability has been codenamed AgentForger by Zenity Labs. The issue has since b ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon RDS for MySQL supports MySQL 9.7 in Amazon RDS Database Preview Environment. Published context: July 23, 2026. Amazon RDS for MySQL now supports version community MySQL 9.7 in the Amazon RDS Database Preview Environment , allowing you to evaluate the latest Release on Amazon RDS for MySQL. This preview environment provides a sandbox where you can test applications and explore new MySQL 9.7 capabilities before they become generally available. MySQL 9.7 is the latest L ...

Today’s signal The Hacker News recently reported Ubuntu snap-confine Flaw Could Give Local Users Root on Default Desktop Installs. Published context: July 22, 2026. Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new local privilege escalation (LPE) vulnerability in snap-confine that an unprivileged user can trigger to obtain root access and gain complete control of a target environment. The high-severity flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-8933 (CVSS score: 7.8), impacts default installations of Ubuntu Desktop 24.04, 25.10 ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported AWS Secrets Manager now publishes secret update notifications to Amazon EventBridge. Published context: July 22, 2026. AWS Secrets Manager now automatically publishes events to Amazon EventBridge whenever your secret values change, enabling you to build event-driven workflows that respond in real time to secret updates. Until now, you had to rely on AWS CloudTrail events parsed into EventBridge to know when a secret value changed — requiring you to match multiple API events ...

Today’s signal The Hacker News recently reported Qilin Ransomware Attackers Exploit PAN-OS Authentication Bypass for Initial Access. Published context: July 21, 2026. Threat actors have been observed exploiting a now-patched high-severity Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS vulnerability as an entry point to deploy Qilin (aka Agenda) ransomware on victim environments. Arctic Wolf Labs said it investigated multiple intrusions in June 2026 that began with the exploitation of CVE-2026-0257 (CVSS score: 7.8), an authentication bypass f ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports Microsoft SQL Server 2025. Published context: July 21, 2026. Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for SQL Server now supports Microsoft SQL Server 2025 for Enterprise, Standard, and Developer editions. SQL Server 2025 brings AI integration directly into the database engine, enabling customers to invoke external REST endpoints from T-SQL without additional middleware. Customers running RDS for SQL Server can ...

Today’s signal The Hacker News recently reported Critical ServiceNow AI Platform Flaw Exploited for Unauthenticated Code Execution. Published context: July 21, 2026. Threat actors are now exploiting a recently disclosed critical security flaw impacting ServiceNow AI Platform, according to Defused Cyber. In a post shared on X, the threat intelligence firm said it’s observing in-the-wild exploitation of CVE-2026-6875 (CVSS score: 9.5), a sandbox escape vulnerability that could allow an unauthenticated user to run arbitrary ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Announcing the general availability of a new AWS Local Zone in Athens, Greece. Published context: July 20, 2026. Today, AWS announces the general availability of a new Local Zone in Athens, Greece. The Athens Local Zone is the second Local Zone in EMEA with support for Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) and Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) Local Snapshots, enabling customers to store and process data within Greece to help meet local data residency require ...