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Detection planning for CVE-2026-79851 without invented signatures

Detection planning for CVE-2026-79851 without invented signatures Detection teams often receive a critical CVE without the technical detail needed to write a precise exploit signature.

  • CVE-2026-79851 is an unauthenticated buffer overflow vulnerability in Aruba AOS-10 switches.
  • Detection plan uses trusted inventory, live images, roles, and management addresses.
  • Restrict CLI and web management interfaces to dedicated network segment.

A created_at-only cursor lost 587 rows, even with clock_timestamp() and microseconds

A reader on one of my Postgres posts asked a fair question: why put id in the pagination index at all? With clock_timestamp() instead of now() , it's hard to create two rows at exactly the same time.

  • Using clocktimestamp() instead of now() in PostgreSQL 16 caused lost rows.
  • Pagination index lost 587 rows due to cursor ending on shared timestamps.
  • Adding id column and ordering by (createdat, id) resolved row loss issue.

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