Take a Network Break! Our red alert goes to cluster of CVEs for Canonical’s LXD Linux Container system. On the news side, Palo Alto Networks adds AI-powered security evaluations as a service engagement, SonicWall introduces an endpoint security agent for SMBs, and the White House outlines a plan to authorize private companies to conduct cyber... Read more »

US Calls for CyberSec Privateers; Oracle To Rent Out Quantum Computers

Network Break

[SPEAKER_A] Take a Network Break! I'm Drew Conrey Martin.

[SPEAKER_B] I'm Jonna Johnson.

[SPEAKER_A] Help yourself to a virtual donut as we skip across this week's news like a well-thrown stone. We're going to talk about a new AI-driven security evaluation offering from Palo Alto Networks, EDR from SonicWall, an executive order allowing private companies to run cyber ops against foreign criminal gangs, Cisco financial results, and more. Before we do anything, here is a quick word from our sponsor, Meter.

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[SPEAKER_B] Okay, so 3,119 CVEs were created in the week ending August 13th with 6,120 updated. Of the new ones, 89 are critical with CVSS of 9 or higher and 28 got a full 10 out of 10. We are giving the red alert this week to a cluster of CVEs for Canonical's LXD Linux Container system. LXD is widely used in containerized Linux application environments. There are 8 CVEs issued for LXD which span a broad range of issues ranging from remote code execution, which is CVE-2026-63294, and arbitrary read/write CVE-2026-63293 to a variety of project isolation failures. All of them got CVSS of 9.9. See the show notes for the full list of CVE numbers.

US Calls for CyberSec Privateers; Oracle To Rent Out Quantum Computers

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US Calls for CyberSec Privateers; Oracle To Rent Out Quantum Computers

Read the full transcript

The candid version is on a podcast, not the earnings call.

The candid version is on a podcast,
not the earnings call.