A quietly persistent bug in in-place Windows upgrades has resurfaced across recent Windows 11 version jumps and is creating a painful, real-world problem for enterprise IT teams: wired 802.1X authentication profiles applied by Group Policy are being deleted during some upgrades, leaving machines offline until a manual recovery is performed. What looks like a routine OS update can turn into
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When Kali Meets Claude: How AI and MCP Are Changing Penetration Testing
The tools and workflows of penetration testing have evolved steadily over the past decade, but a recent shift feels more like a paradigm change than an incremental upgrade. Kali Linux — the distribution many security professionals rely on for reconnaissance, scanning, and exploitation — has been connected to a large language model via the open Model Context Protocol (MCP). The
Urgent Patching Required: Multiple VMware Aria Vulnerabilities Enable Remote Code Execution and Privilege Escalation
VMware’s Aria Operations — a cornerstone for many organizations’ cloud and infrastructure management — was thrust into the spotlight this week after Broadcom published VMSA-2026-0001, detailing three significant vulnerabilities. These flaws range from command injection that can lead to full remote code execution, to stored cross-site scripting that enables administrative actions, and a privilege escalation path from vCenter to Aria
SYSTEM at Risk: How a Splunk DLL Search-Order Flaw Lets Local Users Escalate Privileges
Splunk is a cornerstone of many security and operations teams, trusted to ingest, index, and analyze machine data across the enterprise. That trust makes any vulnerability in Splunk especially consequential. In February 2026 Splunk disclosed a high-severity Windows-specific vulnerability (CVE-2026-20140) that allows a low-privileged local user to perform a DLL search-order hijacking attack and gain SYSTEM-level privileges. The mechanics are
Guardian of the Red Team: How Guardian Orchestrates Gemini, GPT-4 and 19 Top Security Tools for Smarter Pentesting
Guardian is an open-source, AI-driven penetration testing framework that leverages multiple large language models to automate intelligent, evidence-backed security assessments. Designed for enterprise use, it combines a multi-agent architecture with a broad toolset to accelerate reconnaissance, triage, and reporting while preserving human oversight. What is Guardian? Guardian is an AI-powered penetration testing automation framework developed by Zakir Kun and available
Windows 11 KB5077181 Update Triggers Restart Loop on Some Devices — What You Need to Know
Microsoft’s February 10, 2026 security update KB5077181 for Windows 11 (notably reported on affected 24H2 builds) has been linked to a troubling issue on a subset of systems: devices repeatedly restarting in an infinite loop after applying the patch. If your PC is caught in this cycle, or you manage endpoints in an organization and are seeing similar behavior, here’s