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America’s cyber strategy overlooks the infrastructure that actually keeps the military moving
Op-ed argues US cyber strategy underweights Iranian threats to ports, rail, utilities and other commercial infrastructure sustaining military operations.
The author, a former Navy intelligence officer, argues that a prolonged Iran conflict means sustained Iranian cyber operations targeting many smaller systems like water utilities, manufacturers and transportation providers. He cites mapping of 130 documented techniques across five Iranian threat groups and warns destructive attacks such as wipers and ransomware could hit the defense industrial base. The piece urges defensive wargames now and flags the pause in CMMC implementation as particularly concerning.
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Week in review: Salesforce and ServiceNow portals exposed for 17 months, exploited Metabase 0-day
Weekly digest: exploited Metabase zero-day breached Framework; Salesforce/ServiceNow portals read for 17 months; Microsoft patched 400+ flaws.
Help Net Security's week in review aggregates top stories: a 'City-Forum' campaign tracked by Reco has been pulling records from Salesforce and ServiceNow portals worldwide for 17 months, and Framework suffered a breach via an exploited Metabase zero-day exposing customer contact and IP data. It also covers Microsoft's August 2026 Patch Tuesday fixing 400+ flaws including exploited zero-day CVE-2026-68820, Cisco's fix for exploited firewall DoS bug CVE-2026-20349 (added to CISA KEV), and a second N-able N-central hotfix for actively exploited CVE-2026-18577. Other items include GitHub expanding Dependabot malware alerts to eight package ecosystems and EU AI Act enforcement beginning on 2 August 2026.
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