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The 12 Best Mobile Device Management (MDM) Solutions, Compared and Priced

A comparison of 12 MDM platforms ranks Microsoft Intune as best value for Microsoft 365 estates and Jamf, Kandji, and Mosyle for Apple fleets.

The buyer's guide compares 12 mobile device management (MDM) products, naming Microsoft Intune best value since it is included in Microsoft 365 E3/E5, and Jamf, Kandji, and Mosyle as Apple specialists with day-one OS support and automated compliance remediation. Eight of the twelve publish rates; per-device pricing punishes multi-device users, while Microsoft, Omnissa, and IBM offer per-user options. Free tiers from Mosyle, Miradore, and ManageEngine support genuine small deployments.

GBHackers·updated Sep 10, 08:19 UTC · 6d ago·first Sep 10, 08:09 UTC · 6d agoIndustry 4 sources

12 Best Server Security Solutions Compared (2026): Features & Pricing

GBHackers ranks 12 server security solutions for 2026, naming CrowdStrike and SentinelOne as server EDR leaders and Trend Micro Deep Security top for virtual patching.

The guide scores 12 server security platforms across five weighted criteria, with detection and response depth and Linux parity weighted 25% each. CrowdStrike and SentinelOne lead server EDR, Trend Micro Deep Security is highlighted for virtual patching of unpatchable estates, and Microsoft Defender for Servers is noted for Azure and hybrid economics. It is an editorial assessment comparing features and pricing models rather than a lab test.

GBHackers·updated 09:52 UTC · 12h ago·first Sep 11, 07:24 UTC · 5d agoIndustry 14 sources1

Check Point Vulnerability Lets Remote Hackers Gain Root Access Without Authentication

Check Point patched CVE-2026-91843, a CVSS 9.8 pre-auth stack overflow granting remote root on Security Management and Log Servers.

Check Point released an urgent fix for CVE-2026-91843 (CVSS 3.1: 9.8), a stack-based buffer overflow triggered by an excessively long username during login that lets an unauthenticated remote attacker execute arbitrary code with root privileges. Affected products include Security Management Server, Multi-Domain Security Management Server, and Log Servers across releases from R80 through R82.20, with fixes delivered via LivePatch and urgent Take packages. The vendor reports no observed exploitation in the wild, and administrators are advised to verify patch deployment and restrict SmartConsole Trusted Clients.

Cyber Security News·17:14 UTC · 4h agoVulnerability 9 sourcesCVE-2026-91843

Thousands of servers can be backdoored by exploiting buggy motherboard controllers

Ars Technica · Security·Aug 5, 22:35 UTC · Aug 5, 2026MalwareCVE-2013-4786

How MCP Servers Can Expose Enterprise Secrets

MCP servers holding AI agent credentials risk secret exposure via plaintext configs, credential sprawl, prompt injection, and over-permissioning; mitigations include centralization and least privilege.

The article examines how Model Context Protocol servers, which hold API keys, tokens, and service-account credentials for AI agents, can leak enterprise secrets. Documented exposure paths include plaintext credentials in config files, ungoverned credential sprawl, prompt injection, over-permissioning, and untrusted third-party servers. It cites CVE-2025-6514 in mcp-remote (400,000+ downloads), where a malicious server triggered OS command injection leading to remote code execution. Recommended mitigations include centralized secret stores, short-lived auto-rotated credentials, least privilege, and human approval for sensitive actions.

The Hacker News·Aug 17, 11:58 UTC · Aug 17, 2026AI safety & securityCVE-2025-6514

Meta now lets AI agents handle the boring parts of WhatsApp Business setup

Meta launched a WhatsApp Business Tools MCP server that lets AI agents like Claude or Cursor set up and manage WhatsApp Business messaging accounts.

Meta announced a WhatsApp Business Tools MCP server, a Model Context Protocol server that connects AI coding agents such as Claude, Cursor, Codex, or ChatGPT directly to the WhatsApp Business Platform. The agents can handle account creation, phone number verification, Cloud API registration, Terms of Service checks, messaging template creation/editing, and webhook testing. Meta's companion Social Technologies MCP can also discover API endpoints, search documentation, and troubleshoot errors. The launch extends Meta's existing MCP servers for ad management and app configuration monitoring.

TechCrunch · AI·Sep 15, 20:12 UTC · 1d agoAI tools & infra

Top 10 Best Server Security Solutions in 2026

Cyber Security News ranks 2026 server security platforms, favoring Trend Micro for hybrid estates, CrowdStrike for detection, Defender for Azure economics.

Cyber Security News published an editorial ranking of ten server security platforms for 2026, favoring Trend Micro for hybrid estates, CrowdStrike for detection quality, and Microsoft Defender for Servers for Azure-centric economics. The guide stresses that server security licensing differs (per server, per core, or per cloud-hour) and flags hypervisor protection as a commonly missed coverage gap.

Cyber Security News·Sep 10, 08:23 UTC · 6d agoIndustry1

Top 10 Best Mobile Device Management (MDM) Solutions in 2026

A 2026 MDM buyer guide ranks ten solutions, recommending Microsoft Intune for Microsoft 365 estates and Jamf for Apple-only environments.

A 2026 buyer guide evaluates ten mobile device management solutions, leading with Microsoft Intune as the default for Microsoft 365 organizations and Jamf for Apple estates. It recommends choosing the enrolment model before selecting a vendor and clarifying BYOD visibility to prevent privacy disputes. Kandji, Mosyle, Omnissa Workspace ONE, ManageEngine, Scalefusion, and Hexnode are covered as alternatives. Guidance ties MDM to Zero Trust data access policies via Apple User Enrolment and Android work profiles.

Cyber Security News·Sep 9, 07:45 UTC · 7d agoIndustry

RMM Tools for MSPs: Features, Risks & How to Stay Secure

Threat actors continue abusing MSP remote monitoring and management tools to reach downstream customers, four years after the Kaseya supply chain attack.

Huntress examines how RMM platforms remain a favored gateway for attackers targeting managed service providers and their clients. A recent incident demonstrates that adversaries still successfully pivot from MSP RMM tooling into downstream customer environments. The piece also covers RMM features, associated risks, and hardening guidance for providers.

Huntress·Sep 1, 04:00 UTC · 15d agoThreat actor in the wild

UAT-10147 Uses AI to Scale Server Attacks, Deploys SPECTRE With EDR Bypass and Linux Rootkit

Cisco Talos exposes UAT-10147, a Chinese-speaking group using AI tools to automate intrusions, deploy SPECTRE, BadIIS, and rootkits against web servers worldwide.

Cisco Talos detailed UAT-10147, a Chinese-speaking cybercrime group conducting SEO fraud and data theft against Windows and Linux web servers in education, media, technology, and gaming sectors, with most victims in Brazil, Bolivia, China, Canada, and Vietnam. The actor exploits publicly disclosed vulnerabilities for initial access, including Zimbra (CVE-2022-27925) and Alibaba Nacos (CVE-2021-29441), and abuses Linux LPE flaws like CVE-2022-0847 and CVE-2021-3156 for root. Its toolset includes AI-assisted frameworks DeepAudit and PentestGPT, plus implants such as SPECTRE, BadIIS, Quasar RAT, Gh0stCringe, and Noodle RAT. An exposed directory contained a target list of roughly 170,000 URLs, with the US, India, UK, Germany, and Netherlands as top destinations.

The Hacker News·Aug 27, 18:33 UTC · 20d agoThreat actor in the wildCVE-2022-0995CVE-2021-3156CVE-2015-5287+8 CVEs

ToolHive: The open-source way to run any MCP server securely

Stacklok's open-source ToolHive runs Model Context Protocol servers in isolated containers with per-request identity enforcement, audit logging and a signed registry.

ToolHive, shipped under Apache 2.0, containersizes MCP servers locally via Docker or Podman or in clusters through a Kubernetes operator, applying permissions, network filtering, and secrets management. The platform includes a Registry Server implementing the official MCP Registry API with signing and provenance verification, a Virtual MCP Server gateway with OIDC/OAuth single sign-on and OpenTelemetry traces, and a desktop Portal for one-click installs. The browser-based cloud UI is retired, so the desktop app and CLI are the supported rollout paths.

Help Net Security·Sep 7, 00:00 UTC · 9d agoAI tools & infra1

September Windows Server updates break Remote Desktop Services

September 2026 Windows Server cumulative updates cause Remote Desktop Services failures on Server 2019, 2022 and 2025, forcing some admins to roll back.

Admins report Remote Desktop Services failures after installing September 2026 Patch Tuesday updates KB5122876 (Server 2019), KB5122882 (Server 2022), and KB5122871 (Server 2025), with connections hanging, sessions failing after logout, and some systems requiring hard resets. One administrator debugging Server 2022 observed an apparent deadlock between RDP and the Local Session Manager, though Microsoft has not confirmed a root cause. Rolling back the updates restores RDS functionality but removes this month's security fixes. Microsoft had not responded to inquiries at publication time.

BleepingComputer·updated Sep 11, 04:46 UTC · 5d ago·first Sep 10, 20:34 UTC · 6d agoVulnerability 2 sources1

MasterControl Seventeen Every Time

Governed enterprise analytics study shows deterministic policy execution matched 110/110 answer-and-evidence contracts while runtime agent planning matched none.

The paper studies a governed approach where a language model interprets the question while deterministic policy selects and runs a pre-approved analytical program returning results and evidence. Across 440 runs, three 8B models generated SQL and selected tools at runtime, while Qwen3-8B only interpreted intent and policy executed the approved program. None of 330 runtime-planning episodes satisfied the full answer-and-evidence contract, whereas the policy-executed analyzer matched 110 of 110. The authors note this is configuration-specific and expressiveness is preserved via relational operations, aggregation, comparison, windows, ranking, and similarity with replayable results.

Hugging Face daily papers·Sep 1, 20:00 UTC · 15d agoAI research

Managed EDR: What It Is & How to Choose a Provider

Huntress outlines differences between managed and unmanaged EDR and offers guidance on evaluating managed detection and response providers.

The Huntress blog explains how EDR provides endpoint visibility, detection, and response, and contrasts self-managed EDR with vendor- or MSP-delivered managed EDR. It notes unmanaged deployments require in-house staffing to tune and triage high alert volumes, while managed EDR supplies expert investigation and reduced alert fatigue at the cost of less control and third-party visibility. The post lists questions for evaluating providers, including analyst training, monitoring and investigation processes, and false-positive handling.

Huntress·Sep 3, 21:22 UTC · 13d agoIndustry

Operational Resilience: IT Security Risks with Reduced Staffing | Huntress

Huntress blog advises security teams on managing change, risk, and incident response during reduced-staffing holiday periods.

The article discusses how holiday-period staffing reductions change organizational risk profiles around change management, monitoring, and incident response capability. It argues against blanket change freezes when critical vulnerabilities with high exploitation probability demand patching, and stresses retaining decision-making authority, escalation paths, and recovery knowledge. It concludes by promoting Huntress Managed Response, which lets the Huntress SOC take predefined containment actions on confirmed threats without customer intervention.

Huntress·Sep 15, 14:00 UTC · 1d agoIndustry

BotBase for Operators: A clearer path to joining Cloudflare's directory of bots and agents

Cloudflare launched BotBase for Operators, a dashboard for bot and agent operators to manage directory submissions, track status, and declare content usage.

Cloudflare rolled out BotBase for Operators, giving bot operators a dashboard to manage their listings in Cloudflare's directory of bots and agents. The update adds submission status tracking, submission editing, and a behavior model for declaring how bots use site content. It is aimed at operators of crawlers and automated agents seeking placement in the directory.

Cloudflare Blog·Aug 28, 12:59 UTC · 19d agoAI tools & infra

Windows Server 2022 reaches end of mainstream support next month

Microsoft says Windows Server 2022 ends mainstream support on October 13, 2026, entering extended security updates through October 14, 2031.

Windows Server 2022, the September 2021 Long-Term Servicing Channel release, will receive its last mainstream support update with the October 2026 security patch. After October 13, 2026, it transitions to extended support with free monthly security updates through October 14, 2031. Microsoft also extended hotpatching for Datacenter: Azure Edition until October 2027 and recommends upgrading to Windows Server 2025, the current LTSC release.

BleepingComputer·09:10 UTC · 12h agoIndustry

Your enterprise AI footprint is about three times bigger than your model list

Help Net Security·Aug 5, 00:00 UTC · Aug 5, 2026AI safety & security

Microsoft: Windows Server 2025 changes causing app crashes

Microsoft warns Windows Server 2025 memory-management changes crash AWE apps, including SQL Server with Lock Pages in Memory; disable LPIM as workaround.

Microsoft confirmed a known issue where Windows Server 2025 memory-management changes cause access violations, memory corruption, or unexpected termination in applications using Address Windowing Extensions (AWE). SQL Server running with the Lock Pages in Memory (LPIM) policy is affected, with symptoms including 0xC0000005 access violations, DBCC CHECKDB failures, crash dumps, and services stopping or restarting unexpectedly. Microsoft's temporary workaround is to disable the LPIM policy for the SQL Server service account or disable AWE in other affected apps, with a permanent fix promised in a future Windows update.

BleepingComputer·Sep 8, 11:57 UTC · 8d agoAdvisory1

mySCADA myPRO Manager

CISA advisory reveals unauthenticated privileged API access and arbitrary SMS sending in mySCADA myPRO Manager <=2.1, CVSS 9.8.

CISA advisory ICSA-26-258-03 discloses two vulnerabilities in mySCADA myPRO Manager <=2.1 with aggregate CVSS v3 of 9.8. CVE-2026-73807 (CVSS 9.8) lets unauthenticated network attackers access privileged management functions via the command API, while CVE-2026-82567 exposes an unauthenticated HTTP endpoint that sends arbitrary SMS messages through a connected GSM modem. Deployments span critical manufacturing, energy, food and agriculture, transportation, and water and wastewater sectors. CISA states no known public exploitation has been reported at this time.

CISA Advisories·Sep 15, 12:00 UTC · 1d agoAdvisoryCVE-2026-73807CVE-2026-82567

τ^τ-Bench: An Environment for End-To-End, Realistic Agent Construction

New τ^τ-bench tasks coding agents with building deployable customer-service agents; best config, Claude Opus 5, passes only 23.9% of simulations.

Researchers introduce τ^τ-bench, an end-to-end benchmark where a developer agent must build a complete customer-service agent from real business records, a client with requirements, a production API, an inherited codebase, and cost/model limits, then is scored by deploying it against held-out simulated users. Across 53 tasks in four domains, the strongest configuration, Claude Opus 5 under Claude Code, passes just 23.9% of evaluation simulations versus an 82.2% expert-authored reference ceiling. Failure modes mirror those of human developers: shallow queries instead of deep record comprehension, almost no client communication, and shipping the first architecture that runs rather than experimenting.

Hugging Face daily papers·Sep 3, 20:00 UTC · 13d agoAI research

Show HN: Self-hosted company OS, Claude Code and Codex agents in departments

OtoDock, a self-hosted company OS that organizes Claude Code and Codex AI agents into departments, was launched on GitHub via Show HN.

OtoDock is a self-hosted 'company OS' shared on GitHub through a Show HN post, presenting Claude Code and Codex AI agents organized into department-style teams. The Hacker News feed entry shows the post reached 20 points with 5 comments; no further technical details are provided in the available text.

Hacker News · security·Sep 9, 17:57 UTC · 7d agoAI tools & infraHN 20↑ · 5 comments1

Ivanti security advisory (AV26-897)

Canada's Cyber Centre relayed Ivanti's September 2026 security updates for Endpoint Manager Mobile, Neurons for ITSM, and Sentry, urging administrators to patch.

The Canadian Centre for Cyber Security forwarded Ivanti's September 2026 security updates covering Endpoint Manager Mobile, Neurons for ITSM (cloud/SaaS and on-prem), and Sentry. Affected releases include Endpoint Manager Mobile prior to 12.10.0.0, Sentry prior to R10.8.2, and Neurons for ITSM on-prem prior to 2026.2. The advisory references CVE-2026-18851 for Endpoint Manager Mobile and CVE-2026-83527 for Sentry, plus multiple CVEs in Neurons for ITSM. No exploitation is described in the advisory text.

Canadian Centre for Cyber Security·Sep 8, 19:22 UTC · 8d agoAdvisoryCVE-2026-18851CVE-2026-83527

One in four MCP servers opens AI agent security to code execution risk

Noma Security whitepaper finds most popular AI Skills and many MCP servers carry high-risk capabilities, with state changes most prevalent.

Noma Security analyzed hundreds of popular MCP servers and Skills across eight risk categories, finding most widely used Skills carry at least one risky characteristic and a typical enterprise runs well over a hundred high-risk agent tools, with arbitrary code execution common across MCP servers. The most prevalent risk is the ability to change state or data, and named toxic combinations include ContextCrush data leakage, ForcedLeak via poisoned Salesforce CRM records, DockerDash supply-chain compromise, the Replit production database deletion, and the hijacked Amazon Q VS Code extension. Building on OWASP LLM06:2025, the paper proposes the No Excessive CAP framework of capabilities, autonomy, and permissions, recommending allowlisting, MCP version pinning, approval gates on irreversible actions, and user-scoped expiring credentials.

Help Net Security·Aug 24, 04:21 UTC · 23d agoAI safety & security

Daisy-Chaining Trust: Investigating Faronics Deploy Abuse

Actors abuse Faronics Deploy in phishing campaigns to run PowerShell and deploy ScreenConnect while evading detection with trusted tools.

Huntress investigated attacks in which threat actors abuse Faronics Deploy, a legitimate remote management tool, as part of phishing-driven intrusions. The chain uses the trusted deployment tool to launch PowerShell commands and deploy ScreenConnect for remote access. Leveraging signed, legitimate software helps the actors blend in and evade detection.

Huntress·Aug 31, 21:00 UTC · 16d agoThreat actor in the wild

August updates trigger 0xc0000409 errors on Windows Server 2016

Microsoft says the August 2026 security update causes recurring CompatTelRunner.exe 0xc0000409 crashes on Windows Server 2016 with Compatibility Appraiser enabled; no functional impact.

Microsoft confirmed a known issue in which the August 2026 Windows security update generates recurring Application Error events (Event ID 1000, exception code 0xc0000409) in CompatTelRunner.exe on Windows Server 2016. The issue affects physical and virtual machines, including VMware and Azure environments, and per Microsoft does not affect device functionality. A permanent fix is planned for a future update, and the event log entries can be dismissed temporarily.

BleepingComputer·Sep 8, 15:22 UTC · 8d agoAdvisory

The VMs Powering Mobile Agents (Instinct, Claude Code)

A teardown reveals Claude Code runs in Firecracker microVMs with a Rust PID 1 and MITM'd egress, while Instinct rents E2B sandboxes with git-based memory.

The author inspects the virtual machines hosting cloud agents: Claude Code runs in a Firecracker microVM with a custom Rust init (process_api) as PID 1, a 324 MB Bun harness on a read-only disk, and 443-only MITM'd SSE egress to api.anthropic.com with host-rotated OAuth tokens and no inbound access. Instinct rents E2B sandbox-as-a-service Firecracker microVMs (Ubuntu 22.04, 2 vCPU, 1.9 GB RAM) where agent memory is a git repo of Markdown committed by the agent and pushed to S3 as a single bundle, using short-lived STS credentials. Both platforms rely on Firecracker, differing mainly in fleet operator and guest boot configuration.

Hacker News · AI·Sep 8, 04:36 UTC · 8d agoAI tools & infraHN 58↑ · 19 comments1

Veeam Released Patches for Critical Vulnerability (CVE-2026-65641)

Veeam patched critical CVE-2026-65641 (CVSS 9.3) in Veeam ONE, exploitable by unauthenticated network attackers to coerce SMB authentication from the service account.

Veeam released patches for its Veeam ONE monitoring, reporting, and capacity planning software addressing CVE-2026-65641, rated critical with a CVSS score of 9.3. Successful exploitation allows an unauthenticated network attacker to coerce SMB authentication from the Veeam ONE service account, creating relay-style attack opportunities. Qualys ThreatPROTECT relayed the vendor advisory; administrators should apply the patches promptly. No in-the-wild exploitation is noted in the advisory.

Qualys ThreatPROTECT·Aug 31, 16:26 UTC · 16d agoVulnerabilityCVE-2026-65641