John Z Black

Management Planes: The Internet's Industrialized Front Door

John Z Black Apr 22, 2026

Vulnerabilities & Patching #management-plane #beyondtrust #palo-alto #cisco #sdwan #zero-day #rce #industrialized-attack

Hackers have stopped chasing individual servers. They are after the tools that manage thousands of them at once. BeyondTrust, Palo Alto, and Cisco are the current bulls-eye.

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The Next Enterprise Exposure Wave: Old Management Surfaces, New Root Paths

John Z Black Mar 18, 2026

Security Operations & Resilience #management-plane #ip-kvm #telnet #linux #root-access #hardening #attack-surface

An unpatched telnetd with unauthenticated root RCE. Nine critical IP-KVM flaws. A Linux privilege escalation tied to systemd timing. Different CVEs, same underlying problem: forgotten management plumbing.

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