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  • Security researchers found a way to enter Microsoft SharePoint servers as any user, including an administrator, with no valid account. A significant part of the work that found it was done through an AI agent.
  • A use-after-free in the afd.sys Windows kernel-mode driver has been exploited to gain SYSTEM privileges. The post August 2026 Patch Tuesday: Microsoft Fixes 421 CVEs, One Exploited Zero-Day appeared first on SecurityWeek .
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Microsoft releases Windows 10 KB5120249 extended security update

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Windows 11 KB5121003 & KB5120240 cumulative updates released

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Adobe Urges Immediate Patching of Critical ColdFusion, Campaign Classic Flaws

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DEF CON dingus suspected of trying to take over Delta in-flight Wi-Fi

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Two wars and a World Cup lead to epic DDoS attacks on publishers

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Cursor Security Bug Allowed Repositories to Execute Commands Before Trust Verification

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Arctera enhances Unified Platform for evidence-driven compliance workflows

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Deepfake hiccup unmasks suspected digital certificate fraudster

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Kids’ online safety bill faces dim prospects of passage this session despite progress

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Malicious SIMs can hijack smartphones, steal files, and lock them onto 2G

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Water sector example added to the NCSC’s Secure connectivity principles

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Mozilla revokes Firefox signing key after unencrypted copy lands in GitHub

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SwiftQK: Fast and Communication-Efficient Tensor Parallelism for Query-Key Normalization

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City Sentinel: A Unified AI-Based Smart Surveillance Framework for Real-Time Multi-Threat Detection Using Deep Learning

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Large Language Models Explain Experts Better Than Experts Themselves

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The Unified Evaluation App for DNA Data Storage Codecs

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Indirect Geoeconomic Influence: A Switching Dynamical Systems Framework for Mechanism Design

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Error characterization and error correction approaches in combinatorial DNA-based storage

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Researchers Disclose AI-Assisted SharePoint Exploit Chain Reaching Unauthenticated RCE

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The Hacker News published details for CVE-2026-55040.

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CVE-2026-55040 mentioned

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August 2026 Patch Tuesday: Microsoft Fixes 421 CVEs, One Exploited Zero-Day

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Sandworm-Linked UAC-0145 Uses Fake Job Interviews to Push VPN That Can Run Commands

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Microsoft August 2026 Patch Tuesday fixes 400 flaws, 3 zero-days

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Microsoft Patch Tuesday August 2026, (Tue, Aug 11th)

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Zoom Patches Zero-Click Code Execution Vulnerability

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Rapid7 Analysis: Microsoft SharePoint JWT Token Authentication Bypass (CVE-2026-55040)

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CVE-2026-63520: Microsoft SharePoint Remote Code Execution (FIXED)

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The Anatomy of a Prompt Injection: A Component Model for Structured Analysis

Arxiv Cs Cr published details for CVE-2025-32711.

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From Runnable to Verifiable: An Independent Reproducibility Study of LLM/Agent-Driven Vulnerability Validation Artifacts

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Delta probes Wi-Fi deauth attack on flight carrying DEF CON attendees

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Citrix expands Platform Flex with observability and secure developer services

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Quasi-MSRD Codes and Their Properties

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HybridFlow: Resource-Adaptive Subtask Routing for Efficient Edge-Cloud LLM Inference

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A Semantic Communication Approach to Fiducial Marker Processing in 5G-Enabled Edge SLAM

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LGNNIC: Acceleration of Large-Scale GNN Training using SmartNICs

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DeadLock Ransomware Uses Polygon Smart Contracts to Make Extortion Infra Harder to Disrupt

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OpenAI Launches GPT-5.6-Cyber with Reduced Safeguards for Exploit Development

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Local governments in four states dealing with cyberattacks that have shut down services

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Suisan City, California, Responds to Cyber Incident Amid Wave of US Local Government Attacks

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Logistics Giant Ceva Suffers Data Breach Impacting European Clients

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Ransomware gangs don’t need control system access to disrupt industrial production

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PushDualGen: Enabling LLMs to Generate Semantic IDs with Interpretable Copy for Industrial Push Recommendation

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Stop Means Stop: Measuring and Repairing the Enforcement Gap in Agent-Framework Control Primitives

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AI Genie in the Wild

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The AI Governance Gap Is a Leadership Problem: Waiting Won’t Close It

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OpenAI Launches Two-Tier Security Access Program Alongside GPT 5.6 Cyber

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AI for Military Support

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FronTalk: Benchmarking Front-End Development as Conversational Code Generation with Multi-Modal Feedback

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OpRAG: A Resource-Deterministic Runtime for GPU-Backed Multi-Stage RAG Workflows

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