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ARTEX AI Pentesting Platform: How It Works and Why Defenders Should Care

ARTEX AI Pentesting Platform: How It Works and Why Defenders Should Care

ARTEX AI pentesting explained: how its planner and worker agents run intrusions, who is abusing it, and how defenders can hunt and block it.

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VRF Explained: Virtual Routing and Forwarding on FortiGate, Cisco and Juniper

VRF Explained: Virtual Routing and Forwarding on FortiGate, Cisco and Juniper

Learn virtual routing and forwarding (VRF), then build VRFs and route leaking on FortiGate, Cisco IOS XE and Juniper Junos with tested CLI.

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Clear Your Bash and Zsh History (and Keep API Keys Out of It)

Clear Your Bash and Zsh History (and Keep API Keys Out of It)

Clear Bash and Zsh history the right way, delete a single leaked line, and run sessions that keep API keys out of history, scrollback...

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GitLab CVE-2026-97229: Patch, Verify and Hunt the CI Regex RCE

GitLab CVE-2026-97229: Patch, Verify and Hunt the CI Regex RCE

GitLab CVE-2026-97229 is a CVSS 10 RCE now in CISA KEV. Find the build that really fixes it, apply stopgaps, and hunt for exploitation.

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FortiGate IPAM vs DHCP: Differences, Overlap, and What to Check Before You Turn IPAM On

FortiGate IPAM vs DHCP: Differences, Overlap, and What to Check Before You Turn IPAM On

FortiGate IPAM vs DHCP explained: what each one assigns, where they overlap, and what to check before enabling IPAM so it does not renumber...

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Outlook CVE-2026-124194: Patch the Zero-Day That Leaks NTLM Hashes

Outlook CVE-2026-124194: Patch the Zero-Day That Leaks NTLM Hashes

Outlook CVE-2026-124194 leaks NTLMv2 hashes from one opened .msg file. Check fixed builds, force the Office update, and block SMB egress on FortiGate.

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WHOIS Protocol: History, Limitations, and What Replaced It

WHOIS Protocol: History, Limitations, and What Replaced It

Learn how the WHOIS protocol grew from a 1982 ARPANET directory, why port 43 falls short today, and what replaced it for domain lookups.

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EJBCA Internal CA: Deploy a Private PKI for Your Local Servers with Docker

EJBCA Internal CA: Deploy a Private PKI for Your Local Servers with Docker

Deploy an EJBCA internal CA in Docker with MariaDB, build a two-tier Root and Issuing CA, and issue trusted TLS certificates to local servers.

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Windows Server Audit Policy: Advanced Auditing, Command Lines, SACLs and Log Sizing

Windows Server Audit Policy: Advanced Auditing, Command Lines, SACLs and Log Sizing

Build a Windows Server audit policy that logs what investigators need: advanced subcategories, 4688 command lines, file SACLs and log sizing.

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CVE-2026-98432 Mitigation on FortiGate: Blocking the Linux Kernel TCP Use-After-Free (FG-IR-26-188)

CVE-2026-98432 Mitigation on FortiGate: Blocking the Linux Kernel TCP Use-After-Free (FG-IR-26-188)

CVE-2026-98432 mitigation for FortiGate and Linux: drop IPv4 options in the NPU, apply the FMWP virtual patch, and block the TCP trigger until you...

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Fortinet PSIRT Countermeasures: Pre-Auth Bugs Trusted Hosts Won’t Stop

Fortinet PSIRT Countermeasures: Pre-Auth Bugs Trusted Hosts Won’t Stop

Fortinet PSIRT countermeasures for pre-auth FortiGate, FortiManager and FortiAnalyzer bugs on FGFM, OFTP, OSPF and HA that trusted hosts can't stop.

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FortiGate IKEv2 Certificate Pinning: Machine Certificate Plus EAP-MSCHAPv2 Remote Access VPN

FortiGate IKEv2 Certificate Pinning: Machine Certificate Plus EAP-MSCHAPv2 Remote Access VPN

Set up FortiGate IKEv2 certificate pinning: require a machine certificate from your own CA before EAP-MSCHAPv2 login, with OpenSSL and CRL.

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Malware in 2026: A Practitioner’s Field Guide to the Types You Will Actually See

Malware in 2026: A Practitioner’s Field Guide to the Types You Will Actually See

Infostealers, ransomware, loaders, RATs, worms, botnets, wipers, EDR killers, mobile NFC relay, and the first LLM-in-the-loop families. What each one does, how it shows...

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Meraki CVE-2026-76463: Find and Patch Every Affected Device

Meraki CVE-2026-76463: Find and Patch Every Affected Device

Meraki CVE-2026-76463 explained: what the 8.8 access control bundle covers, how to inventory firmware with the API, and which releases fix it.

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Chrome CVE-2026-11660: New Tab Page Sandbox Escape, Verify and Enforce the Patch

Chrome CVE-2026-11660: New Tab Page Sandbox Escape, Verify and Enforce the Patch

Chrome CVE-2026-11660 is a New Tab Page sandbox escape. Verify fixed Chrome and Edge builds and force relaunch on Windows, macOS and Linux.

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eMudhra Certificate Compromise: What Broke and How to Clean Up Your Trust Stores

eMudhra Certificate Compromise: What Broke and How to Clean Up Your Trust Stores

The eMudhra certificate compromise explained: what broke, which clients are still exposed, and how to patch Linux, runtimes, endpoints and FortiGate.

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CVE-2026-19868: SonicWall SAML MFA Bypass on SSLVPN, Patch and Hunt Guide

CVE-2026-19868: SonicWall SAML MFA Bypass on SSLVPN, Patch and Hunt Guide

SonicWall SAML MFA bypass CVE-2026-19868 is exploited. Check exposure, patch SonicOS, and hunt SSLVPN logins that skipped your IdP.

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nmap Companion Tools: The Command-Line Ecosystem That Reads Your Scans

nmap Companion Tools: The Command-Line Ecosystem That Reads Your Scans

nmap companion tools that read your scans: searchsploit, brutespray, gowitness, RustScan and more, plus the one flag that chains them.

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