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Attackers Compile khunt Inside Oracle to Turn SQL Injection Into Windows SYSTEM Access

Attackers compile khunt inside Oracle after a web SQL injection, reach Windows SYSTEM, and stage credential data and registry ...
Le Lézard

Zenity Labs Exposes the Full Scope of PleaseFix, a Vulnerability Class Enabling Zero-Click Attacks Across Leading Agentic Browsers

At Black Hat USA 2026, Zenity Labs today released new research demonstrating zero-click PleaseFix exploit chains across Claude in Chrome, Gemini in Chrome, Perplexity Comet, ChatGPT Atlas and Copilot ...
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New cPanel Critical Flaw Could Let Hosting Customers Run SQL as Database Root

Panel patches CVE-2026-58048, which could let authenticated customers run SQL as database root and, in some setups, ...

The database that thinks it’s a phone exchange: how two Brisbanites are rebuilding the data stack on hardware you already own

A two-person Brisbane company reckons the answer is a smaller box, used properly. On a modest 8-core CPU VM, a machine most ...
Security Boulevard

External input cannot be trusted: input validation and encoding strategies

Any data that enters your system from outside a trust boundary should be treated as untrusted until proven otherwise. That includes form fields, API payloads, file uploads, headers, cookies, queue ...