Android is introducing fake call detection to help protect users from impersonation scams. The feature can detect and flag suspected spoofed calls when both parties use Phone by Google on Android 12 or later. It will roll out globally this month, starting with Pixel devices. Story of two calls from “Mom” (Source: Google) “Fake call…
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What CISOs need to do about post-quantum migration in the next 24 months
In this Help Net Security video, Garfield Jones, SVP Global Strategy and Research, QuSecure, lays out what CISOs should do over the next 24 months. A recent Google paper moved the expected arrival of a cryptographically relevant quantum computer from 2035 to 2029, leaving organizations about two and a half years to prepare. Such a…
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Diligent automates cyber risk assessments and reporting
Diligent has announced Diligent Cyber Risk Management, an agentic solution designed to help organizations manage cybersecurity risk in a business context. Available in summer 2026, the platform reduces cyber risk assessment work from weeks to hours and links cyber threats to strategic objectives, critical business processes, and board-level oversight, helping organizations prioritize security investments based…
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Zero trust physical security needs trust decisions at the edge
In this interview with Help Net Security, Chuck Davis, VP, Global Information Security at Hikvision, explains how zero trust applies to physical security systems like cameras and door controllers. He breaks down how to make trust decisions at the edge without recreating old perimeter assumptions, why these devices should be treated as IT assets, and…
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Secure Code Warrior connects developer training to AI usage and code risks
Secure Code Warrior has introduced Adaptive Learning, a capability designed to help organizations support AI software governance through targeted training based on identified risks. The feature delivers contextual microlearning and tracks outcomes at the code commit level. Software development is going through its biggest shift ever, from human-written code, to AI-assisted coding, to fully agentic…
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Infosecurity Europe: Tabletop Exercise to Test How CISOs Respond to Major Supermarket Cyber-Attack
Semperis is set to bring ‘Enter the War Room: A Tabletop Experience’ to Infosecurity Europe to help cybersecurity leaders prepare to face real incidents
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IBM unveils tool to track sovereignty risks for cloud workloads
IBM has launched a tool designed to help customers assess cloud-sovereignty risks and meet regulatory compliance requirements. The Sovereignty Risk Profile launch comes as digital sovereignty becomes a higher priority for organizations concerned about where data is stored and processed. According to an IBM survey, 93% of executives believe sovereignty needs to be part of…
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Data discovery gaps that catch enterprises off guard
In this interview with Help Net Security, Avani Desai, CEO at Schellman, talks about the gap between what organizations think they know about their data and what discovery scans turn up. She shares stories of shadow data in abandoned cloud storage, post-merger surprises where duplicated datasets slowed integration, and why synthetic data is overmarketed while…
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Governing shadow AI without killing innovation
In this Help Net Security video, Alan Snyder, CEO at NowSecure, talks about governing shadow AI without stopping innovation. He frames the problem as two opposing forces. Companies need to adopt AI fast because attackers and competitors will outpace them otherwise, but they also need to do it safely. Snyder argues the pressure to move…
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Claroty targets cyber-physical system risks with AI-powered security agent
Claroty has launched Claroty Claire, a CPS-native AI security agent designed to help organizations defend mission-critical infrastructure. Claire is powered by a CPS language model trained on more than a decade of industry expertise and CPS-related data. The launch expands organizations’ capabilities for supporting the safety, uptime, and availability of cyber-physical systems. Defending a rapidly…
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Building a risk-based vulnerability management program that scales
In this Help Net Security video, Shankar Somasundaram, CEO at Asimily, explains how to build a risk-based vulnerability program. He notes that vulnerabilities are exploding by an order of magnitude in the age of AI-driven attacks, with one customer finding a thousand vulnerabilities for every one they knew about. Patching everything is not workable, and…
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XM Cyber expands platform to enforce least-privilege access
XM Cyber Inc. announced an expansion of its platform with new capabilities designed to help enterprises enforce least-privilege access across Active Directory, Microsoft Entra, and multicloud environments.
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The alert economy is driving security analyst burnout
In this Help Net Security video, Ido Livneh, CEO of Jazz, explains why security analysts burn out and what leaders can do about it. The cause, he argues, is not long hours but meaningless work. Analysts spend their days closing repetitive tickets while the institutional knowledge of senior staff walks out the door when they…
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Conifers rolls out AI-powered SOC for unified security operations and automated response
Conifers has announced the launch of its agentic SOC, a unified AI platform designed to help security operations centers defend against cyber adversaries operating at machine speed. Built on the company’s CognitiveSOC platform, the new system connects threat intelligence, threat hunting, detection engineering, investigation, and remediation into a single operating framework grounded in each customer’s…
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US states step up cyber defenses to protect local communities
U.S. state governments are taking on a larger role in cybersecurity to help protect local communities and essential services. Many states are building state-led cyber defense programs, including cybersecurity clinics, regional security operations centers (RSOCs), and state cyber corps programs to reduce costs, strengthen the local workforce, and improve cyber resilience. Cyber defense programs in…
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Boards want cyber risk in dollars, not CVE counts
In this Help Net Security video, Ziv Levi, SVP of Technology at CYE, explains why translating cyber risk into dollars is one of the most pressing tasks for security leaders. Boards and executives want cyber exposure described in business terms, not technical jargon. Levi walks through a three-step financial translation framework. First, identify business exposure…
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How SpaceX’s IPO Cements Elon Musk’s Grip on the Company
With supervoting shares and help from Texas state law, the CEO has worked to address governance issues he has faced at Tesla.
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Flipper One project needs community help to build open Linux platform
Flipper Devices, the maker of the Flipper Zero pentesting tool, is asking the community to help build Flipper One, an open Linux platform for connected devices. […]
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Why AI changed the threat model for travel technology
In this Help Net Security interview, Devon Bryan, SVP, Global CSO at Booking Holdings, reflects on his path from Air Force network security engineer to global CSO across financial services, hospitality, and travel technology. He discusses why the travel industry’s interconnected ecosystem of identity, payments, loyalty programs, and third-party integrations creates compounding risk, and how…
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Meet Rampart and Clarity, Microsoft’s new red team combo AI agents
On Wednesday, Microsoft released two new red teaming tools—Rampart and Clarity—,meant to help developers design more secure agentic software and assist incident responders in the face of ongoing breaches. Rampart is built on top of PyRIT, an existing open automation framework Microsoft developed for red teaming generative AI systems. But while PyRIT scans already-built systems…
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Communicating cyber risk in dollars boards understand
In this Help Net Security interview, Nick Nieuwenhuis, Cybersecurity Architect at Nedscaper, explains why cybersecurity has not delivered the resilience that decades of investment have promised. He argues that spending has leaned too heavily on technical controls while neglecting people, processes, and organizational dynamics. He unpacks the gap between security teams and boards, pointing to…
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What happens when your identity provider becomes the kill chain
In this Help Net Security video, Colin Constable, CTO at Atsign, explains why your identity provider (IdP) has become the kill chain in cyberattacks. Attackers steal session cookies, tokens, or consent grants you’ve already issued and walk in behind you. Constable breaks down how passwords, session cookies, and OAuth grants all rely on shared secrets…
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CIRT insights: How to help prevent unauthorized account removals from AWS Organizations
The AWS Customer Incident Response Team works with customers to help them recover from active security incidents. As part of this work, the team often uncovers new or trending tactics used by various threat actors that take advantage of specific customer configurations and designs. Understanding these tactics can help inform your architecture decisions, improve your…
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Westcon-Comstor Launches White-Label OneSOC Service
Westcon-Comstor has launched OneSOC, a vendor-agnostic, white-label security operations service designed to help channel partners offer SOC capabilities under their own brand without upfront investment. The global technology distributor, which specializes in cybersecurity, networking, and hybrid cloud, announced the service on May 19. OneSOC targets partner barriers to SOC delivery OneSOC is available across Europe,…
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SmartBear Adds AI Test Generation to ReadyAPI
SmartBear is rolling out a new AI-powered testing feature for ReadyAPI to help development teams generate API tests faster without sacrificing control over compliance and software quality. The company announced Monday that ReadyAPI now includes an AI test-generation capability designed to speed up API testing by up to 80%. Software teams turn to AI coding…
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Fleet CEO: Faster Remediation Needs IT and Partner Support
Fleet has announced new autonomous endpoint management capabilities designed to help enterprises reduce vulnerability exposure windows from months to days, and in some cases, hours, as security teams face faster exploit development and growing pressure from AI-enabled threats. The San Francisco-based company said its platform now supports continuous patching and vulnerability exposure reporting across major…
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Closing the AI governance gap in your enterprise
In this Help Net Security video, Casey Bleeker, CEO at SurePath AI, talks about the AI governance gap that exists in almost every organization. Drawing from three years of conversations with IT, business, and security leaders, Casey explains why AI adoption is outpacing governance maturity by a wide margin, creating friction between security teams pushing…
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CGS Immersive Debuts AI-Powered Cicero Interview Application
CGS Immersive has launched Cicero Interview, an AI-powered hiring application designed to help enterprises assess candidate readiness through scenario-based interviews, explainable scorecards, and anti-fraud controls. Measuring how candidates think and perform According to CGS Immersive, the application is designed to help enterprises quickly identify candidates who are “truly job ready,” while also providing the transparency,…
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NetSPI AI-powered Continuous Pentesting identifies high-impact vulnerabilities
NetSPI launched AI-powered Continuous Pentesting offerings, designed to help organizations continuously identify, validate and reduce risk across dynamic external and cloud environments. Organizations are managing an expanding number of potential entry points as new internet-facing resources, including cloud assets, applications, APIs, and AI-centric assets, are introduced. Each deployment can create new risk, making it harder…
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SAP unveils Autonomous Enterprise for AI-driven business operations
SAP introduced the Autonomous Enterprise to help enhance the world’s most critical business workflows, so that humans and AI work together to meet the accelerating demands of global business profitably, strategically and safely. “For the mission-critical processes of our customers, ‘almost right’ just isn’t good enough,” said Christian Klein, CEO of SAP SE. “By uniting…
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Breach Secure Now Helps MSPs Secure SMB AI Use
Breach Secure Now is launching its AI Risk to Adoption Program, a new channel-focused offering designed to help managed service providers guide small and midsize businesses from unmanaged AI use toward secure, structured adoption. Art Gross, founder and CEO of Breach Secure Now (BSN), said MSPs are well-positioned to lead those conversations because AI risk…
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SailPoint Agentic Fabric expands identity governance to autonomous AI agents
SailPoint has introduced SailPoint Agentic Fabric, a new platform designed to help enterprises secure AI agents and other non-human identities at scale. As organizations deploy autonomous AI agents across cloud environments, applications, and endpoints, they face a growing governance gap. Unlike traditional users, AI agents can act at machine speed, often without clear ownership, oversight,…
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Google is turning Android Studio into a policy watchdog
Google has expanded Play Policy Insights in Android Studio to help developers catch policy issues while coding, including warnings for common problems such as missing login credentials. Later this year, developers who connect their Play developer account directly to Android Studio will receive tailored insights. By leveraging SDK Index, a searchable list of Android SDKs…
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OpenAI and Anthropic LLMs Used in Critical Infrastructure Cyber-Attack, Warns Dragos
Commercial AI models were used to help plan and conduct cyber-attack against operational technology of a water and drainage facility, say researchers
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Netrio Expands MSP Services with AI Advisory Practice
Netrio has launched a new AI advisory and transformation practice to help mid-market enterprises move artificial intelligence projects beyond experimentation and into measurable business use. The McKinney, Texas-based MSP said the new offering will support customers across AI evaluation, strategy, governance, deployment, and adoption. The practice is designed for organizations struggling with disconnected AI pilots,…
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Spotting third-party cyber risk before attackers do
In this Help Net Security video, Jeffrey Wheatman, SVP and Cyber Strategist at Black Kite, discusses how organizations can identify and manage third-party cyber exposures before attackers exploit them. He argues that businesses should move beyond a data-loss mindset toward one centered on resilience, meaning keeping operations running when vendors or partners get hit. Wheatman…
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The Exchange Online security controls organizations keep getting wrong
In this Help Net Security interview, Scott Schnoll, Microsoft MVP for Exchange, breaks down the Shared Responsibility Model, where Microsoft secures the cloud while organizations must protect their own data, identities, and configurations. The discussion covers default settings worth changing tomorrow, including legacy protocols like SMTP AUTH that survive due to printer, scanner, and ERP…
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Beam launches in Australia bringing purpose-built AI to the social services sector
First AI suite built by support workers, for support workers, lands in Melbourne to help NDIS sector respond to increasing strain 94% of support workers reported increased job satisfaction, as Beam enabled them to focus on talking to people over paperwork
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Helping Romance Scam Victims Require a Proactive, Empathic Approach
People targeted by confidence schemes find getting help is a lonely road. Experts want law enforcement, financial and government institutions to work together and protect them.
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AI is speeding up nation-state cyber programs
Im this Help Net Security interview, Kaja Ciglic, Senior Director, Cybersecurity Policy and Diplomacy at Microsoft, discusses how nation-state cyber programs have changed over three years. Cyber has become a core instrument of state power, integrated with military, economic, and diplomatic tools. Ciglic argues that responses like sanctions and indictments need broader strategies, including conditional…
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The Hunt for Extraterrestrial Life Enters a New Frontier
Scientists are using advanced telescopes, models and AI to help them look for signs of life beyond Earth, including in distant solar systems.
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A year in, Zoom’s CISO reflects on balancing security and business
In this Help Net Security interview, Sandra McLeod, CISO at Zoom, reflects on her first year in the role. She talks about moving from reactive firefighting to business strategy, and what she heard from engineers, the board, and customers during her early months. McLeod discusses how she prepared for incident management, the dual job of…
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The 6 Best Partner Relationship Management (PRM) Software in 2026
Partner Relationship Management (PRM) software is a type of B2B solution designed to help companies manage and optimize their partner relationships. The best PRM platforms typically include features such as partner management, lead distribution, deal registration, and incentives and rewards management to drive better outcomes. In this guide, we’ll explore the top PRM software solutions…
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OpenAI’s Chronicle feature lets Codex read your screen, raising privacy concerns
OpenAI’s Chronicle is a feature designed to help Codex, an AI-powered coding assistant, better understand what users are working on by capturing context directly from their screens. It uses recent screen activity to build memories, allowing Codex to interpret references, identify relevant sources, and pick up on the tools and workflows users rely on, without…
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The Rise of Apple’s New CEO: A Hardware Expert Takes Over in the AI Era
John Ternus is a hardware expert who must help Apple catch up in the AI race as it looks for its next big hit.
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Blue Yonder Survey: 66% of Leaders Are Actively Working To Reduce Their Supply Chain’s Impact
GUEST RESEARCH: Nearly half (47%) of large enterprises have dedicated sustainability teams to help direct cross-functional strategies
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Meta and PortSwigger drive offensive security further to find what others miss
Meta Bug Bounty and PortSwigger have formed a partnership to help security researchers sharpen their skills, collaborate more closely, and improve vulnerability discovery. The initiative combines Meta’s bug bounty program with PortSwigger’s Burp Suite, reflecting a shared focus on improving both tooling and education for the global security community. “By joining forces, we’re not just…
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How NIST’s Cutback of CVE Handling Impacts Cyber Teams
Industry and ad hoc coalitions appear poised to help fill the gap created by NIST’s decision to cut back on CVE data enrichment.
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Apple AirTag tracking can be misled by replayed Bluetooth signals
Apple’s AirTag is designed to help users track lost items by relying on a vast network of nearby Apple devices. New research shows that this same system can be manipulated to display locations where an AirTag has never been. Relaying an AirTag’s BLE advertisments over the Internet injects false location reports into the Find My…
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OpenAI Launches GPT-5.4-Cyber to Boost Defensive Cybersecurity
OpenAI unveils GPT-5.4-Cyber, a cybersecurity-focused model built to help defenders analyze malware and fix software bugs. The company is also expanding its Trusted Access for Cyber (TAC) program to thousands of verified experts.
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Securing Remote Server Access: Why VPNs Matter for Administrators
VPNs help secure remote server access by encrypting traffic, restricting entry to authorized users, and reducing exposure of critical systems to the internet.
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Coordinated vulnerability disclosure is now an EU obligation, but cultural change takes time
In this Help Net Security interview, Nuno Rodrigues Carvalho, Head of Sector for Incident and Vulnerability Services at ENISA, discusses the recent CVE funding scare and what it exposed about the fragility of global vulnerability disclosure infrastructure. He outlines how EU regulations, including the Cyber Resilience Act and NIS2, are creating stronger accountability for vendors…
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Microsoft rolls out fast-track to reinstate Windows hardware dev accounts
Microsoft has rolled out a fast-track process to help developers regain access to accounts recently suspended from its Windows Hardware Program, following widespread complaints that they were locked out without warning. […]
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Agentic AI memory attacks spread across sessions and users, and most organizations aren’t ready
In this Help Net Security interview, Idan Habler, AI Security Researcher at Cisco, breaks down a threat most security teams haven’t named yet: agentic memory as an attack surface. Habler walks through MemoryTrap, a disclosed and remediated method to compromise Claude Code’s memory, showing how a single poisoned memory object can spread across sessions, users,…
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Zero trust at year two: What nobody planned for
In this Help Net Security video, Jim Alkove, CEO of Oleria, walks through where zero trust programs typically stand one to two years in. Most organizations have made gains in endpoint security and network segmentation, but identity remains the stubborn problem. Identity sprawl, legacy system exceptions, and workforce friction each contribute to stalls that few…
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Fastly and LALIGA Team Up in Joint Innovation to Combat Piracy
COMPANY NEWS: Companies Collaborate to Detect and Eliminate Pirated Streams to Help Prevent Lost Revenue
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Aura Business Debuts BYOD Security Solution for MSPs
AI-powered online safety platform Aura has introduced a new business security solution to help shrink the unmanaged device gap that exists in today’s security stacks. The new identity-centric bring your own device solution built for MSPs Aura Business for MSPs is a new identity-centric BYOD security solution designed to protect businesses and employees. It allows…
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Fixing vulnerability data quality requires fixing the architecture first
In this Help Net Security interview, Art Manion, Deputy Director at Tharros, examines why vulnerability data across repositories stays inconsistent and hard to trust. The problem starts with systems not designed to collect or manage that data well. They introduce the idea of Minimum Viable Vulnerability Enumeration (MVVE), a minimum set of assertions needed to…
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Bringing governance and visibility to machine and AI identities
In this Help Net Security interview, Archit Lohokare, CEO of AppViewX, explains how the rise of AI marked a turning point where machine and AI agent identities began converging into a single problem. Drawing on his experience across IBM and CyberArk, he describes the shift from human-driven systems to autonomous machines. Lohokare also shares how…
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Nutanix Accelerates Service Provider Growth with New Cloud Capabilities and Migration Programs
New and upcoming multitenancy offerings and service validation programs are designed to help service providers scale efficiently while modernising customer environments
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What vibe hunting gets right about AI threat hunting, and where it breaks down
In this Help Net Security interview, Aqsa Taylor, Chief Security Evangelist, Exaforce, explains vibe hunting, an AI-driven approach to threat detection that inverts traditional hypothesis-driven methods. Instead of analysts defining attack vectors upfront, the AI scans datasets for anomalous patterns and surfaces potential threats. Taylor draws a firm line on responsibility: analysts must be able…
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Claude helps researcher dig up decade-old Apache ActiveMQ RCE vulnerability (CVE-2026-34197)
In the latest demonstration of how AI assistants can help with bug hunting, Horizon3.ai researcher Naveen Sunkavally used Claude to unearth CVE-2026-34197, a remote code execution vulnerability in Apache ActiveMQ that’s been introduced in the codebase 13 years ago. The vulnerability was patched in late March 2026 and there’s currently no indication that it is…
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AI agent intent is a starting point, not a security strategy
In this Help Net Security video, Itamar Apelblat, CEO of Token Security, walks through findings from the company’s research, which shows that 65% of agentic chatbots have never been used yet still hold live access credentials. He explains why organizations treat AI agents more like quick experiments than governed identities, and why that creates risks…
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Trellix strengthens data security for the GenAI era
Trellix announced enhanced data security capabilities and a strategic framework designed to help organizations confidently adopt generative AI while protecting sensitive data from exposure and loss. “The rapid adoption of AI tools across the enterprise is creating new and often invisible data risks,” said Alex Au Yeung, CPO, Trellix. “Trellix brings together policy, visibility, and…
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What managing partners should ask AI vendors before signing any contract
In this Help Net Security interview, Kumar Ravi is the Chief Security & Resilience Officer at TMF Group, argues that over-privileged access and weak workflow controls pose more danger than ransomware attacks, precisely because they accumulate quietly and go unnoticed. He addresses the tension between legal privilege and timely threat-sharing, the challenge of managing fourth-party…
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Naitiv Launches AI-Focused ServiceNow Consultancy
A group of former Thirdera executives has launched Naitiv, a new ServiceNow-focused consultancy designed to help enterprises operationalize AI, starting with the insurance sector. We spoke with Naitiv CEO Jon Reynolds and Managing Partner Bill Devine about the launch and why the consultancy is committed to the ServiceNow platform as it scales support. Naitiv launches…
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The case for fixing CWE weakness patterns instead of patching one bug at a time
In this Help Net Security interview, Alec Summers, MITRE CVE/CWE Project Lead, discusses how CWE is moving from a background reference into active use in vulnerability disclosure. More CVE records now include CWE mappings from CNAs, which tends to produce more precise root-cause data. Automation tools help analysts map weaknesses faster, but can reinforce bad…
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How Mimecast brings enterprise-grade email protection to API deployment
In this Help Net Security video, Andrew Williams, Senior Product Manager at Mimecast, walks through the company’s API-based email security protection for Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace environments. The video covers a core problem: AI-generated phishing and business email compromise are slipping past native Microsoft 365 controls. According to Mimecast’s State of Human Risk report,…
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Windows Security app gets Secure Boot certificate status indicators as 2026 expiration approaches
Microsoft’s Secure Boot certificates, issued in 2011, are approaching expiration in 2026. To help IT administrators track whether devices have received replacement certificates, Microsoft has added new status indicators to the Windows Security app, under Device security > Secure Boot. Updated 2023 certificates are being delivered automatically through Windows Update to consumer devices and some…
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A Sneaky Back Door Lets Hackers Into Your Home. Here’s How to Protect Yourself.
A few tips can help you steer clear of so-called residential proxy networks, which have been used to wreak havoc online around the world.
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The College Student—and His Cat Meme—Who Hunted the World’s Biggest Cyberweapon
A flurry of powerful attacks had internet experts baffled. Benjamin Brundage had a few tricks to help solve the mystery.
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Why OpenAI Decided to Buy TBPN, Tech’s Hottest News Show
The tech company’s surprise purchase of the web program underscores its efforts to help shape the narrative about AI.
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Trust, friction, and ROI: A CISO’s take on making security work for the business
In this Help Net Security interview, John O’Rourke, CISO at PPG, talks about what it means for security to drive business value. He explains how mature security programs reduce friction in sales cycles and M&A processes, and how trust is built over time. O’Rourke also addresses how buyer sophistication has raised the bar for suppliers,…
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Your customer passed authentication. So why are they sending money to a scammer?
In this Help Net Security video, Lenny Gusel, Head of Fraud Solutions in North America at Feedzai, explains how customer identity and access management has converged with digital fraud detection, and why treating them as separate systems creates real risk. The core idea is continuous, contextual trust. Where traditional IAM grants access at a single…
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Bitdefender Launches Internal Attack Surface Assessment
Bitdefender recently announced the launch of Bitdefender Attack Surface Assessment to help enterprises discover hidden cybersecurity risks. Complimentary evaluation shines spotlight on hidden risk The assessment is a complimentary evaluation that helps organizations identify and reduce hidden internal cyber risk from unnecessary user access to applications, tools, and operating system utilities commonly exploited in modern…
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Android developers just got a new verification layer
To help prevent malicious actors from spreading harmful apps while hiding behind anonymity, Google is rolling out developer verification to all Android developers. The company is also introducing app registration, which links apps to verified developer identities. Developers can still choose where to distribute their apps (Source: Google) Developers can begin completing verification now through…
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Release Notes: Cross-Platform Threat Analysis with macOS, SSL Decryption, and 1,300+ New Detections
March was a packed month for ANY.RUN. We rolled out major product improvements that help security teams investigate phishing inside encrypted traffic, expand cross-platform analysis with macOS, and bring Windows Server into the sandbox workflow. At the same time, our detection team continued to strengthen threat coverage with new behavior signatures, Suricata rules, and fresh threat intelligence reports focused on active…
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Release Notes: Cross-Platform Threat Analysis with macOS, SSL Decryption, and 1,300+ New Detections
March was a packed month for ANY.RUN. We rolled out major product improvements that help security teams investigate phishing inside encrypted traffic, expand cross-platform analysis with macOS, and bring Windows Server into the sandbox workflow. At the same time, our detection team continued to strengthen threat coverage with new behavior signatures, Suricata rules, and fresh threat intelligence reports focused on active…
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Buying the Dip? This AI Agent Will Do it For You
Public, an investing platform, will offer AI agents that can help put your brokerage account on autopilot.
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Google Drive now detects ransomware and helps restore affected files
To help organizations minimize the impact of malware attacks on personal computers, Google launched ransomware detection and file restoration in beta in September 2025. These features are now generally available. End user alert in Drive for desktop when ransomware is detected (Source: Google) “Compared to the beta version, we can now detect more types of…
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The art of making technical risk make sense to executives
In this Help Net Security video, Jay Miller, CISO at Paessler, explains how security leaders can communicate technical risk to executives and board members in terms they understand. The focus is on business impact: financial loss, compliance fines, reputation damage, and productivity. Miller walks through three principles: describe impact in plain language, come prepared with…
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Dayforce Expands Partner Ecosystem with Emburse and Docusign to Simplify Finance and HR Workflows for Customers
COMPANY ANNOUNCEMENT: Advancing strategic partnerships to help reduce complexity, streamline vendor selection, and accelerate time to value
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Everyone Hates iPhone Autocorrect. An Update Fixes One of the Biggest Problems.
Here’s what iOS 26.4 does to improve your typing, plus some tips to help you reclaim your keyboard.
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Nutanix Debuts New Agentic AI Solution
Nutanix, a hybrid multicloud computing company, recently launched a new agentic AI solution to help customers boost agentic AI adoption for business transformation. Nutanix brings AI factory enablement stack to market The full software stack, Nutanix Agentic AI, is designed to help infrastructure and platform teams build and operate AI factories, while providing shared access…
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Your facilities run on fragile supply chains and nobody wants to admit it
In this Help Net Security interview, Christa Dodoo, Global Chair at IFMA, discusses how facility managers are managing supply chain risk in critical building systems. She explains how sourcing, localized redundancy, and flexible infrastructure design are being integrated into resilience planning. Dodoo also shares practical approaches such as regional vendor networks, alternative contracts, and strategic…
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Best Klaviyo Alternatives for Revenue Growth and Advanced Analytics
Top Klaviyo alternatives offer advanced analytics, automation, and insights to help e-commerce brands improve campaigns, boost revenue, and track performance.
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DigiCert Document Trust Manager enhancements improve document security and compliance
DigiCert has announced enhancements to its Document Trust Manager solution to help organisations combat rising document fraud, simplify global compliance, and strengthen trust in digital transactions in the age of AI. Unlike traditional signing tools that require separate regional or departmental infrastructure to meet standards such as AATL and eIDAS, Document Trust Manager centralises signing…
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Gemini picks up criminal activity buried in dark web noise
To help teams make faster and more accurate decisions on emerging threats, Google has introduced a dark web intelligence capability in Google Threat Intelligence. Powered by Gemini, the feature analyzes millions of dark web events each day and surfaces threats relevant to an organization’s operations. “Instead of requiring your team to manually input and update…
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UiPath Optimises Retail and Manufacturing Operations with New Agentic Solutions
New UiPath Solutions help retailers and manufacturers compile data across fragmented systems to automate merchandising, pricing, and inventory workflows, improving operational performance and delivering better customer experiences
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HPE enhances security to support AI and distributed enterprise environments
HPE has unveiled new security innovations designed to help organizations scale distributed operations, reduce cyber risk, and maintain consistent governance as AI adoption accelerates across the enterprise. To help enterprises securely adopt AI and turn resilience into a core business capability, HPE is introducing the HPE Juniper Networking SRX400 Series Firewalls, an expanded hybrid mesh…
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Why your phishing simulations aren’t building a security culture
Security culture isn’t built by phishing simulations. In this Help Net Security video, Dan Potter, VP of Cyber Resilience at Immersive, argues that annual training videos and quarterly phishing tests happen in calm, controlled settings that tell us nothing about how people perform when a real incident hits. Real attacks trigger anxiety, cognitive narrowing, and…
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All AI and Security Teams Need Transparent Data Pipelines
Transparent AI data pipelines help organizations verify sources, reduce errors, meet regulations, and build trust by making outputs auditable and reliable.
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Yubico Partners with IBM and Auth0 to secure agentic AI and Harness its Power while ensuring Trust and Governance
This strategic collaboration with IBM and Auth0 will help organisations securely deploy AI agents at scale with verified human oversight
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Dell expands security stack with quantum-ready protections and AI threat detection
Dell Technologies has introduced new security by design and cyber resilience capabilities to help organizations secure, detect and recover from next-generation threats. The enhancements address emerging risks from quantum computing and AI by hardening device foundations, strengthening cyber resilience when incidents occur and extending threat detection into AI data platforms. Why it matters AI is…
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Amazon Collaborates With NVIDIA on Advanced AI Assistants for Cars
The technology could help automakers build AI assistants that understand group conversations and what’s happening around the car.
AI, Data Breaches, Exploits, Global Security News, Network Security
The phone call is the new phishing email
Voice-based phishing, a form of social engineering where attackers call employees or IT help desks under false pretenses in an attempt to gain access to victim networks, surged in 2025, Mandiant said Monday in its annual M-Trends report. These points of intrusion, which have been a hallmark of attacks attributed to members of the cybercrime…
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Dataminr Launches AI-Driven Cyber Defense Platform
Dataminr has launched a new AI-powered cyber defense platform designed to help enterprise security teams detect threats earlier and respond faster. The platform, Dataminr for Cyber Defense, combines real-time external intelligence with internal security data to identify risks, assess financial impact, and automate response workflows before incidents escalate. Dataminr integrates ThreatConnect to power real-time threat…
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Oracle Launches AI Customer Excellence Centre to Drive Innovation Across Australia and Oceania
Sydney-based Oracle AI Customer Excellence Centre will serve as a regional hub to help organisations adopt the latest AI innovations and accelerate business transformation.
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Your AI agents are moving sensitive data. Do you know where?
In this Help Net Security interview, Gidi Cohen, CEO at Bonfy.AI, addresses what he sees as the most pressing gap in AI agent security: data-layer risk. While the industry focuses on prompt injection and model behavior, Cohen argues the deeper threat is autonomous AI agents operating across systems with no visibility into what data they…
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Field workers don’t need more access, they need better security
In this Help Net Security interview, Chris Thompson, CISO at West Shore Home, discusses least privilege and credential hygiene for a field-based workforce. He covers access management, authentication practices, and data risk processes that support employees in the field. Thompson also outlines security awareness efforts and how field teams are integrated into an organization’s security…