Security Insights
Deep dives, expert analysis, and practical guidance on exposure management, adversarial validation, and the future of AI-driven exposure management.
wp2shell: A Pre-Authentication RCE in WordPress Core, and Why It Is an Exposure Validation Problem
wp2shell is a pre-authentication RCE in WordPress Core that an anonymous request can trigger on a default install. Here are the affected versions, the patch steps, and why events like this are really an exposure validation problem.
Strobes Agentic Pentesting: A pen-tester experience and point of view
Eleven validated Critical and High findings from Strobes AI's autonomous pentesting agents, each with the agent's reasoning, the request sent, and the response that proved it.
10 Best Open Source Agentic Pentesting Tools in 2026
Compare the 10 best open source agentic pentesting tools for self-hosted workflows, from PentAGI and PentestGPT to CAI, Strix, and VulnBot.
Vulnerability Chaining: How Agentic Pentesting Proves Attack Paths
Three low-severity findings can chain into one critical breach. See why CVSS misses chained risk and how agentic pentesting proves or rejects each attack path.
How Agentic Pentesting Separates Test Failures From Real Security Findings
Agentic pentesting reliability on unstable apps: a six-state failure taxonomy, safe retry rules, and what a trustworthy pentest report must disclose.
What Counts as Valid Proof in an Agentic Pentest?
Valid proof in an agentic pentest is reproducible, in-scope, and attributable evidence of exploitability. What counts, what doesn't, and how to prove it.
Top CVEs of June 2026: 5 Critical Flaws to Patch Now
Five CVEs defined June 2026: Check Point VPN bypass, Splunk pre-auth RCE, Windows HTTP.sys kernel RCE, LiteLLM AI-gateway RCE, and Defender BlueHammer. How to fix each.
Top 8 Data Breaches and Exposures of June 2026
The 8 confirmed data breaches of June 2026, from a 24-billion-record credential dump to ShinyHunters' PeopleSoft and Klue OAuth campaigns. What happened and how to defend.
The "vulnerability AI race" is a myth. Here's what actually changes for your exposure program.
The "vulnerability AI race" is vendor theater. What AI actually changes for exposure management, and why validation through exploitation beats discovery speed.
Vulnerability Validation: Why Most of Your Scanner Backlog Is Noise
Vulnerability validation proves which scanner findings are real, reachable, and exploitable. Why manual triage fails and how agentic validation scales.
Gartner SRM 2026 Broke Something I Believed About Enterprise Security
Strobes CEO Venu Rao shares his takeaways from Gartner Security & Risk Management Summit 2026: everyone can find vulnerabilities, almost no one has cracked fixing them.
How to Pentest Single-Page Applications (React, Angular, Vue)
Learn how to pentest React, Angular, and Vue SPAs. Covers DOM XSS, client-side routing bypass, JS bundle secrets, and why traditional DAST scanners fail.