CVE Research Tools from Atomicorp

Posted on by Mike Shinn

Atomicorp CVE Research Tools provide answers during uncertain times. A new CVE has been identified! How do you determine whether it affects your environment, whether a patch is available, and what protections may already stand between the vulnerability and an attacker? Atomicorp CVE Research Tools at research.atomicorp.com provide a place to investigate selected CVEs and […]

The Vulnerability Came Back: Why Old CVEs Still Demand Attention

Posted on by Dean Lombardo

Old vulnerabilities do not necessarily disappear from attackers’ playbooks. Instead, older CVEs can remain actively exploited years after their initial disclosure, particularly when vulnerable legacy and end-of-life (EOL) systems remain in operation. As artificial intelligence (AI) and automation accelerate vulnerability exploitation, organizations need to identify and protect weaknesses regardless of their age. Atomicorp helps organizations […]

AI-Speed Vulnerability Exploitation, and Layered Security Countermeasures

Posted on by Dean Lombardo

Artificial intelligence is changing more than the sophistication of cyber attacks—it is changing the speed of attacks. AI-speed vulnerability exploitation enables attackers to discover weaknesses, generate exploits, perform reconnaissance, and launch attacks in a fraction of the time previously required by human operators. As the defender’s response window shrinks, defense in depth cybersecurity becomes increasingly […]

Buy One Atomic ModSecurity Rules License, Get One Free

Posted on by Dean Lombardo

Extend affordable WAF protection across more websites, APIs, and web applications with Atomic ModSecurity Rules. Through August 31, 2026, buy one license and receive a second license of equal value free. Organizations are adding customer portals, APIs, cloud workloads, administrative tools, and legacy applications faster than many security teams can expand coverage. Protecting only the […]

Atomicorp Blocked wp2shell Exploit Before It Had a Name

Posted on by Mike Shinn

CWE-first protection wins again. While the industry raced to publish emergency wp2shell detections, Atomicorp’s existing generic SQL injection and RCE protections were already positioned to stop the underlying attack behavior. wp2shell: The attack was new. The weakness was not. The wp2shell chain combines CVE-2026-63030, a WordPress REST batch-route interpretation conflict, with CVE-2026-60137, an SQL injection […]

And They All Fall Down—Mitigate Your Risk From Cloud-Dependent Downtime

Posted on by Dean Lombardo

On Oct. 20, 2025, Amazon Web Services (AWS) suffered an outage that affected an estimated 1,000 or more different apps and services, including Snapchat, McDonalds, Office 365, Outlook, Alexa, the Fly Delta app, Strava, Toast, and many others. The outage caused extended recovery delays due to backlogs, created ripple effects from heavy reliance on a […]

Virtual Patching for CVE Gaps, Unpatchable Vulnerabilities, and Uncertain Times

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By Michael Shinn Atomicorp WAF-based virtual patching provides a timely safety net when vulnerability data is lacking or CVE fixes impossible. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has increased its role in NIST NVD and MITRE CVE program management in 2025. This is part of a stated effort to improve data quality and […]

ModSecurity Download for VARs, OEMs, Web Hosting Panels

Posted on by Dean Lombardo

Open source WAF ModSecurity downloads are available from Atomicorp, which also offers ModSecurity support.  ModSecurity Download for Resellers and Web Hosting Managers   For many organizations, the future of ModSecurity for web application security became uncertain following Trustwave’s 2021 decision to no longer develop and provide ModSecurity support. In this void, long-time ModSecurity Rules provider Atomicorp […]

Why ‘Firewall’ Your Core Servers? Zero Trust and Defense in Depth in Action

Posted on by Dean Lombardo

Zero trust principles shouldn’t only be applied to the untrusted internet and traffic from the web. The security perimeter—no matter how dynamic—isn’t foolproof and can be breached and bad actors can get inside in a number of ways. Be able to stop a threat that has already penetrated your core by filtering east-to-west traffic and […]

Get Continuous ModSecurity WAF Updates Against the Latest Web Attacks

Posted on by Dean Lombardo

Atomic ModSecurity Rules and Atomic WAF filter traffic between your web servers, web connections and the internet, blocking known malicious sources, sites and users, while supporting secure access for authentic connection points and users.   Learn More Web-Based Bombardment Requires Continuous WAF Enhancement   Inbound traffic from the internet represents the most frequent source of onslaught upon […]