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Maya Nair

Cybersecurity reporter

Maya Nair covers vulnerabilities, privacy enforcement, ransomware, and the practical security decisions facing teams and consumers.

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Recent stories by Maya Nair

CVE-2026-32202 Turns Shortcuts Into Risk
SecurityRansomware and Breaches
CISA’s latest KEV entry turns a Windows Shell flaw into a near-term patch priority because malicious shortcut files can expose credential material with little user action.
Maya NairApr 30, 202612 min read
Risk, resilience, and the systems companies rely on.Read story
Cisco SD-WAN vulnerabilities still need urgent triage
SecurityIdentity Security
Cisco’s March advisory and April KEV activity kept the same message alive into this week: exposed SD-WAN control systems need upgrades, log review and tighter access right now.
Maya NairApr 29, 20266 min read
Risk, resilience, and the systems companies rely on.Read story
MCP security flaw is turning AI tooling into a supply chain problem
SecurityIdentity Security
The latest disclosures around Anthropic's Model Context Protocol point to a broader enterprise risk. The issue is not one bad plugin. It is that a fast-growing agent standard may be pushing insecure trust assumptions deep into the AI toolchain.
Maya NairApr 28, 20266 min read
Risk, resilience, and the systems companies rely on.Read story
AI agent trust gap is turning into the next identity security fight
SecurityIdentity Security
Enterprises are running more agent pilots, but the gap between experimenting and trusting those agents in production is widening into a concrete security problem.
Maya NairApr 27, 20264 min read
Risk, resilience, and the systems companies rely on.Read story
CVE-2026-33825 is now a real incident-response problem, not just another April patch
SecurityRansomware and Breaches
The patched Microsoft Defender flaw known as BlueHammer now comes with a KEV deadline and live-intrusion evidence, which changes how defenders should treat it.
Maya NairApr 26, 20264 min read
Risk, resilience, and the systems companies rely on.Read story
SharePoint zero-day April 2026 still demands fast patching
SecurityRansomware and Breaches
Microsoft fixed CVE-2026-32201 on Patch Tuesday, but exposed on-premises SharePoint servers are still drawing attention and security teams should not treat this as a routine update.
Maya NairApr 25, 20263 min read
Risk, resilience, and the systems companies rely on.Read story