Between August 20–21, 2026, a cybersecurity professional posted a thread on Mastodon describing years of DDoS penetration testing. Key findings: most defenses target HTTP/1.1, application-layer attacks have HTTP/2 equivalents, vendors detect attacker IPs within minutes, and no vendor provides comparable metrics.
Microsoft announced MAI-Cyber-1-Flash, its first cybersecurity-specific AI model, and Project Perception, an agentic security platform with Red/Blue/Green defense capabilities. The company also introduced FORGE Lab in collaboration with DARPA to expand AI-driven cybersecurity offerings.