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From 17,000 to 1.1 Million Assets: How Lumen Technologies Rebuilt Exposure Management at Scale

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The Hacker News Jul 10, 2026 1 min read

From 17,000 to 1.1 Million Assets: How Lumen Technologies Rebuilt Exposure Management at Scale

Most enterprises assume their asset inventory is close enough to accurate. The evidence suggests otherwise. According to a survey of over 600 security leaders in the 2026 Axonius Actionability Report, only 45% of organizations consolidate their asset and exposure data into a single view, and every downstream security program inherits whatever the inventory gets wrong. Lumen Technologies, a

Six New U-Boot Flaws Could Let Malicious Images Crash Devices or Run Code at Boot

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The Hacker News Jul 10, 2026 1 min read

Six New U-Boot Flaws Could Let Malicious Images Crash Devices or Run Code at Boot

Researchers at firmware security firm Binarly have found six new flaws in U-Boot, the small program that starts up hardware as varied as home routers, smart cameras, and the management chips inside data-center servers. Four of the bugs can crash a device. The other two could let an attacker who slips a malicious image in front of the bootloader run their own code, before the device

NSA Releases New Guidelines for Quantum-Safe Encryption

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NSA Jul 08, 2026 1 min read

NSA Releases New Guidelines for Quantum-Safe Encryption

The National Security Agency published comprehensive guidelines for organizations to begin transitioning to post-quantum cryptographic algorithms before 2030.

Open Source Security Tool Gains Massive Adoption

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GitHub Security Jul 06, 2026 1 min read

Open Source Security Tool Gains Massive Adoption

A newly released open source penetration testing framework has been downloaded over 2 million times in its first month, becoming the go-to tool for security professionals.