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A critical vulnerability in SonicWall's network security software is already being exploited in the wild, just days after it was publicly disclosed. The flaw, classified as a pre-authenticated server-side request forgery bug, requires no login to trigger, meaning attackers can begin probing systems before most organizations have had a chance to patch.
Shifting to the world of cryptocurrency, the XRP Ledger Foundation has revealed that a bug sat quietly in its codebase for years — one that, under the right conditions, could have shattered the one hundred billion token supply cap underpinning XRP's entire value proposition. The reason it went undetected is almost poetic: normal network conditions simply never pushed the code into the broken state. A near miss hiding in plain sight.
And on the regulatory front, a service called Onlang is targeting mobile developers navigating Europe's increasingly strict app store rules. The pitch is straightforward — compliant paywalls built to satisfy EU requirements out of the box. As digital markets regulation tightens across Europe, the compliance tooling market is quietly becoming a business in its own right.
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