DevOps

Today’s signal The Hacker News recently reported Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Zero-Day CVE-2026-20245 Exploited to Gain Root Access. Published context: June 25, 2026. An unknown threat actor exploited a recently disclosed high-severity security flaw impacting Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN as a zero-day at least two months before it was publicly disclosed, according to new findings from Google-owned Mandiant. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-20245 (CVSS score: 7.8), allows an authenticated, local attacker to execute arbitrar ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon EC2 announces AMI Watermarks for improved AMI governance. Published context: June 24, 2026. Amazon EC2 introduces AMI watermarks, letting you embed custom identifiers in your private AMIs. Once applied, a watermark automatically carries forward to every AMI derived from the original, whether you copy it across regions or create a new AMI from a running instance. Watermarks also remain visible when you share an AMI with other accounts. This helps yo ...

Today’s signal The Hacker News recently reported Cisco Unified CM Flaw Exploited After PoC Reveals File-Write Path to Root. Published context: June 24, 2026. Threat actors have begun to exploit a recently disclosed critical security flaw impacting Cisco Unified Communications Manager (Unified CM) and Unified Communications Manager Session Management Edition (Unified CM SME). The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-20230 (CVSS score: 8.6), is a case of improper input validation for specific HTTP requests that could ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon CloudWatch now supports tags on dashboards. Published context: June 24, 2026. A mazon CloudWatch now supports tagging for CloudWatch dashboards, enabling you to organize, categorize, and control access to your dashboards using tags. Tags are key-value pairs that help you identify and manage AWS resources across your environment. With this launch, the PutDashboard API now accepts an optional Tags parameter, allowing you to assign up to ...

Today’s signal TechCrunch recently reported Shareholders sue Uber’s board over sexual assaults, other incidents. Published context: June 22, 2026. The lawsuit, led by a Detroit pension fund, alleges Uber’s board and management has cut too many compliance corners, resulting in thousands of lawsuits. 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 ECS announces faster service auto scaling. Published context: June 18, 2026. Amazon ECS service auto scaling now detects and responds to load changes faster with support for high resolution (20-second) metrics and metric publishing optimizations. In AWS benchmarking tests, time to trigger scale-out improved from 363 seconds to 86 seconds (76% faster, 4.2x), and total time to scale and provision new tasks improved from 386 seconds to ...

Today’s signal The Hacker News recently reported INTERPOL Warns Phishing, Ransomware, and AI Scams Are Rising Across Asia-Pacific. Published context: June 22, 2026. A new report from INTERPOL has revealed a “dramatic increase” in cybercrime in Asia and the South Pacific, fueled by rapid digitalization, internet penetration, new technologies, organized criminal networks, and a disparity in cybersecurity maturity. According to INTERPOL’s 2025/2026 Asia and South Pacific Cyberthreat Assessment Report, phishing has emerged ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Announcing the general availability of a new AWS Local Zone in Hanoi, Vietnam. Published context: June 19, 2026. Today, AWS announces the general availability of a new Local Zone in Hanoi, Vietnam, bringing AWS infrastructure closer to end users. This new Local Zone is one of the first AWS Local Zones in the Asia Pacific with support for Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) and Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) Local Snapshots, enabling customers to meet dat ...

Today’s signal The Hacker News recently reported F5 Patches Two Critical NGINX Open Source Flaws Enabling Remote Code Execution. Published context: June 18, 2026. F5 has released security updates to address two critical security flaws in NGINX Open Source that could be exploited to achieve code execution on affected systems. The vulnerabilities are listed below - CVE-2026-42530 (CVSS v4 score: 9.2) - A use-after-free vulnerability in the ngx_http_v3_module that could be triggered by a remote unauthenticated attacker w ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon RDS for MariaDB now supports community MariaDB minor versions 10.6.27, 10.11.18, 11.4.12, and 11.8.8. Published context: June 15, 2026. Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for MariaDB now supports community MariaDB minor versions 10.6.27, 10.11.18, 11.4.12, and 11.8.8. We recommend that you upgrade to the latest minor versions to fix known security vulnerabilities in prior versions of MariaDB, and to benefit from the bug fixes, performance improvements, and new functionality adde ...

Today’s signal The Hacker News recently reported Hackers Exploit Gravity SMTP WordPress Plugin Bug to Expose API Keys. Published context: June 20, 2026. Threat actors are exploiting a recently patched security flaw impacting Gravity SMTP, a WordPress plugin that’s installed on about 100,000 sites. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-4020 (CVSS score: 5.3), is a medium-severity information disclosure flaw that can allow unauthenticated attackers to extract sensitive data, such as configuration data, API ke ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon RDS for MySQL announces Extended Support minor version 5.7.44-RDS.20260521. Published context: June 15, 2026. Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for MySQL now supports new Amazon RDS Extended Support minor version 5.7.44-RDS.20260521. We recommend that you upgrade to this version to fix known security vulnerabilities and bugs in prior versions of MySQL. Learn more about upgrading your database instances, including minor and major version upgrades, in th ...