grep -nHP “login\(loginRequest=LoginRequest\{authenticationInfo=AuthenticationInfoBase\{username='[^’]{1001,}'” “$MDS_FWDIR”/log/cpm.elg* That command, published in Check Point’s advisory sk1000171, is the first thing an administrator should run on every Security Management Server this week. It searches for oversized login usernames in the management service logs — an artifact left behind by the exploitation of CVE-2026-93616, a pre-authentication path traversal that allows unauthenticated…

The Agent as an Attack Surface On September 21, 2026, security researcher Patrick Wardle disclosed a zero-day vulnerability in Meta’s Muse macOS application. Launched on September 17, 2026, Muse is the first build to feature deep computer-use capabilities, granting the agent broad access to a user’s local files, email, messages, calendar, and notes. The application…

The Vulnerability in the Enrollment Pathway The security of an enterprise trust store is fundamentally limited by the integrity of the enrollment mechanism that populates it. When that enrollment pathway relies on plaintext communication, the trust infrastructure itself becomes a viable attack surface. This reality is underscored by CVE-2026-12249 vulnerability, a critical flaw in Canonical…