Archive for September 2026
Cybersecurity Awareness Trends 2026
Cybersecurity Awareness Month is observed in October in the United States and marks a period of heightened awareness activity across Europe, which makes now a good moment to take stock of how security awareness is changing. The discipline keeps evolving quickly — what the biggest human risks are, what gets in the way of good…
Read MoreCheck Point VPN Certificate Vulnerability: Patch Now
Check Point disclosed a Check Point VPN certificate vulnerability pair, CVE-2026-85102 and CVE-2026-85103, both CVSS 9.8, on September 9, and the Dutch National Cyber Security Centre has since warned that large-scale exploitation is likely imminent, even though Check Point itself has not yet observed attacks in the wild. Both flaws allow unauthenticated remote code execution…
Read MoreWindows Defender ShieldCrash Exploit Bypasses Patch
A new Windows Defender ShieldCrash exploit went public on September 9, granting SYSTEM-level access on fully patched Windows 10, Windows 11, and Windows Server systems, including machines that had already installed Microsoft’s own September Patch Tuesday fix for the previous bug in the same family. No CVE has been assigned, and no patch or official…
Read MoreSAP Kernel RCE Vulnerability Hits 10,000+ Systems
A maximum-severity SAP kernel RCE vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-44756 and named OVERPASS by Onapsis Research Labs, lets an unauthenticated attacker reach shared SAP kernel code before any session authenticates — and it is reachable over three separate protocol paths at once. SAP patched the CVSS 10.0 flaw on September 8, 2026, as part of its…
Read MoreTop 5 Cybersecurity News Stories September 11, 2026
This week’s Cybersecurity News Stories September 11, 2026 expose five distinct layers of the assumed-safe environment, each under active pressure. Microsoft’s September Patch Tuesday arrived with 974 CVEs — the largest single monthly release on record — including two zero-days already exploited in the wild and 20 vulnerabilities that researchers assessed as potentially wormable. A…
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