Vulnerabilities can lurk within production code for years or decades — and AI tools have opened a gateway to a glut of new long-hidden discoveries.
ShieldBreak is a claimed patch bypass for Defender flaw CVE-2026-50656, with a PoC tested on Windows 11 25H2 and Server 2025.
The PoC posted by Nightmare Eclipse, who has been feuding with Microsoft for months, grants an attacker system-level privileges once they gain any access.
David Chisnall discusses how the CHERI hardware architecture redefines pointer safety to solve isolation and sharing challenges. He explains how CHERI enables spatial and temporal memory safety for ...