Oracle's October 2026 Critical Patch Update fixes dozens of PeopleSoft PeopleTools flaws. The worst, CVE-2026-101420 in the SQR component, scores 9.6 and lets a low-privileged attacker change or read critical data.
One vulnerability carries a critical rating.
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Oracle's Security Alert for CVE-2026-114820, rated CVSS 9.1, removes four eMudhra-linked root CA certificates from Java SE and GraalVM; Oracle lists it under JSSE, but the fix is a trust-store change.
ADT and Thrive Holdings announced an all-cash deal that values ADT at about $7.6 billion in equity value and $15.3 billion in enterprise value, according to the companies. ADT stockholders would get $10.00 per share, and the companies expect the deal to close in the first quarter of 2027, pending stockholder and US antitrust approval.
CISA says it added Linux kernel flaw CVE-2026-46300 to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on Oct. 28, with a federal deadline of Oct. 31 and forensic triage required. CISA says it can be chained with two PHP flaws to implant webshells and run commands as root.
CISA says it added CVE-2026-41709, an insufficient logging flaw in Broadcom's VMware ESX, to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on Oct. 28. The flaw requires admin access, and CISA lists a Nov. 11 federal deadline; it has not said who is exploiting it.
Sony Network Communications, the wholly owned Sony Group company behind the So-net internet service provider, says a third party accessed its So-net member database on Oct 19 and that up to about 2.6 million member records leaked, including 443,495 from plala (S Course) and 16 bank-account records. No credit card data leaked, Sony says.
