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GitHub Code Quality Goes Paid July 20: What Teams Should Audit Now
GitHub Code Quality becomes a paid product on July 20, adding a $10-per-active-committer license, GitHub AI Credits for AI-powered checks, and GitHub Actions minutes for CodeQL scans. Teams using the free preview should audit enabled repositories, active committers, Actions usage, AI review behavior, and merge-blocking rules before billing starts.
PTC Windchill Exploits Put Manufacturing PLM Systems on Patch Clock
CISA added CVE-2026-12569, a critical PTC Windchill and FlexPLM remote code execution flaw, to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog with a June 28 deadline. The bug is being used to deploy JSP web shells against product lifecycle management systems that often sit deep inside manufacturing and engineering workflows.
Windows 10 Security Updates Now Run Through October 2027
Microsoft has extended consumer Windows 10 Extended Security Updates through October 12, 2027. Here is what the extra year covers, who qualifies, how enrollment works, and why it is still not full Windows 10 support.
curl 8.21.0 Fixes 25-Year-Old libcurl mTLS Bug
curl 8.21.0 fixes 18 security flaws, including CVE-2026-8932, a 25-year-old libcurl mTLS connection-reuse bug. The practical risk is in applications that embed libcurl and change client certificate settings while reusing connection pools.
Mandiant Details Cisco SD-WAN Attack That Turned a Malicious CSV Into Root Access
Mandiant says an attacker used rogue Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN peering, admin password manipulation, and CVE-2026-20245 to gain root access through a malicious CSV upload. The new details make the June SD-WAN advisories an incident-response problem, not just a patching task.
CISA Gives UniFi OS and Lantronix Flaws a June 26 Patch Deadline
CISA added three Ubiquiti UniFi OS flaws and a Lantronix EDS5000 code-injection bug to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, setting a June 26 remediation deadline for federal agencies. The risk is not just another CVE list: exposed network management interfaces can become a fast path to device control.
CISA’s June 23 Deadline Puts Cisco SD-WAN, Chrome, and Arista EOS on the Triage List
CISA’s June 23 remediation deadline covers three actively exploited flaws across Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager, Google Chrome’s V8 engine, and Arista EOS. The useful move for security teams is not treating them as one patch chore, but triaging each layer: network control plane, browsers, and tunnel decapsulation paths.
OpenAI Codex Record & Replay Turns Workflow Demos Into Reusable Skills
OpenAI’s new Codex Record & Replay feature lets eligible macOS users demonstrate a repeatable workflow once and turn it into a reusable skill. It could make desktop and browser automation easier to capture, but teams need to treat recordings, permissions, and sensitive data carefully.
Klue Breach Shows How SaaS OAuth Tokens Became a Salesforce Risk
Klue’s June security incident let attackers use a legacy integration credential to obtain OAuth tokens and pull Salesforce CRM data from connected customer environments. The breach is a practical warning for teams that treat SaaS integrations as trusted background plumbing instead of monitored, scoped access paths.
LiteLLM Exploit Puts AI Gateways on a June 22 Patch Deadline
CISA’s June 22 remediation deadline for CVE-2026-42271 puts LiteLLM AI gateways on the security team’s priority list. The flaw affects MCP test endpoints, can expose model-provider credentials, and may become unauthenticated RCE when chained with a Starlette host-header bypass.