DevOps

Today’s signal The Hacker News recently reported ShieldBreak Zero-Day PoC Claims Microsoft Defender Patch Bypass With SYSTEM Access. Published context: August 12, 2026. The security researcher going by the name Chaotic Eclipse (aka INFINITE NIGHTMARE, MSNightmare, and Nightmare-Eclipse) has released a proof-of-concept (PoC) for a new Microsoft zero-day called ShieldBreak. The vulnerability, rooted in Microsoft Defender for Windows, demonstrates a patch bypass for CVE-2026-50656 (CVSS score: 7.8), otherwise known as RoguePla ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon EC2 R8a instances are now available in Canada (Central) region. Published context: August 11, 2026. Starting today, Amazon EC2 R8a instances are now available in Canada (Central) Region. These instances, feature 5th Gen AMD EPYC processors (formerly code named Turin) with a maximum frequency of 4.5 GHz, deliver up to 30% higher performance, and up to 19% better price-performance compared to R7a instances. R8a instances deliver 45% more memory bandwidth com ...

Today’s signal The Hacker News recently reported Gunra Ransomware Exploits Fortinet and Schneider Electric Flaws to Breach Networks. Published context: August 11, 2026. Cybersecurity and intelligence agencies from South Korea and the U.S. warned of Gunra ransomware attacks targeting critical infrastructure sectors and organizations across the world. Targets of these attacks include healthcare and public health, financial services, government services and facilities, and professional and nonprofit services. “Gunra is another ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon ECS now supports fractional GPU scheduling with Amazon EC2 G6f instances. Published context: August 6, 2026. Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) now supports fractional GPU scheduling with Amazon EC2 G6f instances, enabling you to run your workloads on GPU partitions as small as one-eighth of an NVIDIA L4 Tensor Core GPU with 3 GB of GPU memory. Fractional GPUs give you the flexibility to right-size your containers for small-model AI inference, model expe ...

Today’s signal The Hacker News recently reported New Passkey Attacks Can Recover Synced Private Keys or Bypass Phishing-Resistant MFA. Published context: August 10, 2026. Three separate research efforts last week demonstrated ways to defeat passkey protections without breaking the cryptography they rest on. Passkeys are designed to replace reusable passwords and resist phishing. The attacks instead reused signed authentication material that Windows had exposed, abused a cloud-synced passkey system from malware already on the ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon GameLift Servers now supports 21 new EC2 instance types. Published context: August 7, 2026. Amazon GameLift Servers now supports 21 additional Amazon EC2 instance types for managed EC2 fleets and managed container fleets. Amazon GameLift Servers is a fully managed service that enables game developers and studios to deploy, operate, and scale dedicated game servers in the cloud. This expansion gives customer access to the latest compute-optimized an ...

Today’s signal The Hacker News recently reported Progress Kemp LoadMaster Flaw Hits CISA KEV After 792 Reported Exploit Attempts. Published context: August 8, 2026. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Friday added a critical-severity security flaw impacting Progress Kemp LoadMaster to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, following reports of active exploitation in the wild. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-8037 (CVSS score: 9.6), is a command injection flaw that could ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon VPC IPAM now supports BGP route protection monitoring and delegated RPKI for BYOIP prefixes. Published context: August 7, 2026. Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) IP Address Manager (IPAM) now supports BGP route protection monitoring and delegated Resource Public Key Infrastructure (RPKI) management for Bring Your Own IP (BYOIP) prefixes. Network administrators can centrally monitor BGP route protection and automate Route Origin Authorization (ROA) management across their organizatio ...

Today’s signal The Hacker News recently reported Metabase Zero-Day Exploited in Wild Allows Admin Access Without Authentication. Published context: August 8, 2026. Metabase has warned that a maximum-severity security flaw impacting its business intelligence and data visualization software package has been exploited in the wild as a zero-day. The vulnerability (CVSS score: 10.0), which does not carry a CVE identifier, allows an unauthenticated remote attacker to inject arbitrary SQL into the Metabase application databas ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon EC2 R8i and R8i-Flex instances are now available in Europe (Milan) region. Published context: August 7, 2026. Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) R8i and R8i-flex instances are available in the Europe (Milan) region. These instances are powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors, available only on AWS, delivering the highest performance and fastest memory bandwidth among comparable Intel processors in the cloud. The R8i and R8i-flex instances of ...

Today’s signal The Hacker News recently reported New Zapscape KVM Flaw Could Let Privileged L1 Guest Code Escape to Linux Hosts. Published context: August 6, 2026. Zapscape, a new Linux kernel vulnerability, could allow an attacker with kernel privileges inside an L1 guest virtual machine (VM) to escape KVM isolation and execute code on the host. The risk applies when nested virtualization is exposed to untrusted guests. The flaw is tracked as CVE-2026-64561 and affects KVM/x86’s shadow memory management unit (MMU), wh ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon EC2 M8g instances now available in additional regions. Published context: August 6, 2026. Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) M8g instances are available in AWS Asia Pacific (Taipei), and AWS Mexico (Central) regions. These instances are powered by AWS Graviton4 processors and deliver up to 30% better performance compared to AWS Graviton3-based instances. Amazon EC2 M8g instances are built for general-purpose workloads, such ...