TrustList daily digest · Tech and security
Wednesday, 7 October 2026
Tech and security: the stories TrustList published on this day, each in a line of our own. Open a story for the whole piece and its sources.
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1Artificial Intelligence News
45 open-weight models, 53 closed ones and the licences between them
Eight of the 13 specified models dated October ship downloadable weights, and all eight are Apache 2.0, while only five of the 45 open rows record any price.
2Security advisories
SonicWall patches CVSS 10 pre-login flaw in SMA1000 gateways
It is the third maximum-score, pre-authentication WorkPlace request-forgery flaw SonicWall has fixed this year. Three further SMA1000 bugs were patched in the same hotfixes.
3Security advisories
FBI warns FortiBleed is still hitting exposed FortiGate VPNs
SOCRadar verified more than 86,644 compromised devices in 194 countries. The agencies say changing passwords is not enough, because attackers add admin accounts and can delete existing ones.
4Security advisories
Cisco fixes critical remote code flaws in Nexus switch software
Two advisories score 9.8 and need no login. NX-API is on by default for UCS 6300 interconnects, and neither advisory offers a workaround beyond disabling the feature.
5Security advisories
Cisco License On-Prem flaw lets anyone reset admin passwords
Versions up to 9-202601 are vulnerable and Cisco offers no workaround. A second critical bug in the same product allows unauthenticated file writes through the API.
6Security advisories
TeamCity 2026.2.1 and 2026.1.5 fix more than 40 security issues
JetBrains strongly recommends upgrading the self-hosted CI server. The release notes say 41 security problems are fixed in 2026.2.1, with the security bulletin to follow.
7Security advisories
HPE fixes 37 flaws in AOS-Switch and ClearPass Policy Manager
Sixteen are rated critical and 12 high. Italy's national cyber agency lists remote code execution and authentication bypass among the flaw types and records no public exploit or exploitation.
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