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…
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Cloud misconfiguration has evolved and your controls haven’t
In this Help Net Security video, Kat Traxler, Principal Security Researcher – Public Cloud at Vectra AI, walks through two AWS misconfigurations that go beyond the basics of bucket visibility. The first is bucket name squatting. Because S3 uses a global namespace, attackers can register bucket names they expect a target company will use, then…
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AI Conundrum: Why MCP Security Can’t Be Patched Away
MCP introduces security risks into LLM environments that are architectural and not easily fixable, researcher says at RSAC 2026 Conference.
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Harness Launches AI Security Covering Code to Runtime Stage
Harness has unveiled two new products: AI Security, a new solution to discover, test, and protect AI running in your applications, and Secure AI Coding, a new capability within the Harness Static Application Security Testing (SAST) platform that secures the code generated by AI tools. Together, they extend Harness’s DevSecOps platform into the age of…
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U.S. CISA adds a flaw in Cisco FMC and Cisco SCC Firewall Management to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds a flaw in Cisco FMC and Cisco SCC Firewall Management to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added a flaw in Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center (FMC) Software and Cisco Security Cloud Control (SCC) Firewall Management, tracked as CVE-2026-20131 (CVSS score…
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9 Best Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW) Solutions in 2026
This guide is for IT leaders, network administrators, and security teams evaluating next-generation firewalls (NGFWs), and it covers how they work, key features, and what to look for in 2026 solutions. NGFWs have evolved beyond traditional firewalls to deliver deep packet inspection, application awareness, and integrated threat prevention, helping organizations defend against increasingly sophisticated attacks.…
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Top 25 Cybersecurity Companies in 2026
This guide is for IT leaders, security professionals, and decision-makers looking to explore leading cybersecurity companies in 2026 and evaluate vendors across key areas of modern security. Cybersecurity has become one of the most critical priorities for organizations operating in today’s world. As businesses adopt cloud computing, remote work, artificial intelligence (AI), and increasingly complex…
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Top 6 XDR Solutions & Vendors in 2026
This guide is for security leaders, IT administrators, and growing businesses evaluating extended detection and response (XDR) platforms, and it covers the top solutions available today along with key features and buying considerations. XDR tools provide centralized visibility and threat detection across endpoints, networks, cloud workloads, and email systems, helping organizations respond to increasingly complex…
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Versa Secure Enterprise Browser delivers browser-native security for enterprise apps
Versa has revealed early access to Versa Secure Enterprise Browser, a new browser-native security capability within the VersaONE Universal SASE Platform that protects employees, contractors, and partner users as they access web, SaaS, and enterprise AI applications by enforcing security, access, and data protection policies directly within the browser session. The browser has become the…
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Nagomi Security expands into agent-driven exposure elimination with Agentic Exposure Ops
Nagomi Security has announced the next evolution of its platform with Agentic Exposure Ops, expanding Nagomi from exposure visibility to agent-driven exposure elimination. Most exposure management programs generate findings faster than teams can validate what’s real, route fixes to the right owners, and re-check outcomes as environments change. Agentic Exposure Ops closes that execution loop…
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7 Ways to Prevent Privilege Escalation via Password Resets
Password resets are often weaker than login security, making them a prime target for privilege escalation. Specops Software explains how attackers abuse reset workflows and how to secure them. […]
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Cobalt adds continuous pentesting AI capabilities to scale offensive security and real-world risk
Cobalt has released new AI capabilities for continuous pentesting. Delivered through the Cobalt Offensive Security Platform, these next-generation components integrate AI with human pentesters and more than a decade of proprietary pentesting intelligence to accelerate the speed, scale, and depth of offensive security programs. Attackers are increasingly using AI to automate reconnaissance, vulnerability discovery, and…
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Discern brings six AI agents to streamline security analysis, prioritization, and remediation
Discern Security has introduced new agentic AI capabilities across its proactive security platform, designed to help security teams move faster from data to action. As environments become more complex and security teams face growing tool sprawl, fragmented workflows, and too much data with too little clarity, Discern provides an easier way to understand posture, prioritize…
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Entro Security AGA brings governance and control to enterprise AI agents and access
Entro Security has launched its Agentic Governance & Administration (AGA), a new pillar of the Entro platform designed to help security and identity teams govern AI agents and AI access across enterprise systems. Applied to the new realities of AI-driven access, AGA brings governance back to fundamentals of inventory, ownership, least privilege, auditability, and enforcement…
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The React 19 Security Audit: Hardening Your App Against “React2Shell” and RSC Vulnerabilities
In this post, I will talk about the React 19 security audit: and show you how to hardening your app against “React2Shell” and RSC vulnerabilities. TL;DR The rollout of React 19 Server Components (RSC) fundamentally shifted the application attack surface. This led to critical late-2025 and early-2026 deserialization vulnerabilities, headlined by the CVSS 10.0 “React2Shell.”…
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Ready for macOS Threats: Expanding Your SOC’s Cross-Platform Analysis with ANY.RUN
Enterprise security teams are no longer defending a single-platform environment. They are expected to investigate threats across multiple platforms every day, often under constant pressure to move faster and make the right call early. When analysis workflows are split across different tools and environments, triage slows down, investigations take longer, and business risks grow. To help SOC and MSSP teams handle cross-platform threats…
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Illumio Defines Breach Containment for the AI Era
AI security graph enhancements build dynamic, real-time picture of system-wide lateral movement risk to direct containment strategy and execution
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5 Best Rootkit Scanners and Removers: Anti-Rootkit Tools in 2026
This guide is for IT professionals, security teams, and everyday users who want to detect and remove stealthy rootkit malware, and it covers the best rootkit scanners and removal tools available today. Rootkits are particularly dangerous because they embed deep within an operating system, allowing attackers to hide malicious activity and maintain persistent access without…
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ManageEngine Endpoint Central Advances Towards Autonomous Endpoint Security with EDR and Secure Private Access
Company Unveils the First Natively Built Platform Combining UEM, Endpoint Security (EPP with EDR), Digital Employee Experience (DEX), and Secure Private Access Introduces AI-powered endpoint threat detection and automated remediation Enforces Zero Trust access to intranet applications through device trust verification Free trial available at https://mnge.it/EDR
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Teleport announced Beams, wants to remove major barrier to agentic AI
Teleport today announced Beams, a trusted runtime designed to solve the security and IAM challenges blocking teams from designing and running AI agents in production infrastructure. Beams runs each agent in an isolated Firecracker VM with built-in identity. Each Beam is connected to infrastructure and inference services without secrets, with audit and access control. Beams…
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Secure endpoint management systems immediately, CISA urges
The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) warns that the cyberattack on Stryker Corporation serves as a signal to U.S. organizations that foreign cyber activity tied to Middle East conflicts may be spilling into their operations. Attackers breached Stryker’s internal Microsoft environment and reportedly wiped 200,000 systems, servers, and mobile devices, while extracting 50…
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Delinea finds 90% of Australian Organisations Pressure Security Teams to Loosen Identity Controls for AI
GUEST RESEARCH: New research highlights visibility gaps around AI-driven identities, rising NHI risks, and an AI security confidence paradox
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How Ceros Gives Security Teams Visibility and Control in Claude Code
Security teams have spent years building identity and access controls for human users and service accounts. But a new category of actor has quietly entered most enterprise environments, and it operates entirely outside those controls. Claude Code, Anthropic’s AI coding agent, is now running across engineering organizations at scale. It reads files, executes shell commands,…
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UK: Regulation Drives Cyber Spending for Critical Infrastructure Orgs
35% of security leaders working in the UK’s critical infrastructure said regulatory requirements are the primary influence on their security programs
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Your MFA isn’t broken — it’s being bypassed, and your employees can’t tell the difference
Multi-factor authentication was supposed to be the solution. For years, security teams have told employees that MFA would keep them safe. Password stolen? No problem — attackers still need that second factor. But adversary-in-the-middle (AiTM) phishing has changed everything. These attacks do not try to steal passwords and MFA codes separately. They capture the entire…
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Samba 4.24.0 ships Kerberos hardening and a CVE fix for domain encryption defaults
Samba 4.24.0 arrived carrying a set of Kerberos security changes aimed at Active Directory deployments. The release fixes a vulnerability, extends audit coverage for sensitive AD attributes, and introduces configuration options to counter two related Kerberos impersonation techniques. A CVE drives the encryption default change The most directly security-relevant change in 4.24.0 is a shift…
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Omnix AI Advisor brings real-time credential threat insights to enterprise security teams
Dashlane has unveiled Omnix AI Advisor, a natural-language AI security assistant embedded into the Dashlane Omnix platform. Built upon Omnix’s advanced credential protection and visibility capabilities, Omnix AI Advisor accelerates enterprises’ transition to a proactive security posture by turning real-time credential risk data, such as dark web exposure and phishing logs, into contextual, actionable intelligence.…
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CISA Warns of Zimbra, SharePoint Flaw Exploits; Cisco Zero-Day Hit in Ransomware Attacks
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has urged government agencies to apply patches for two security flaws impacting Synacor Zimbra Collaboration Suite (ZCS) and Microsoft Office SharePoint, stating they have been actively exploited in the wild. The vulnerabilities in question are as follows – CVE-2025-66376 (CVSS score: 7.2) – A stored cross-site scripting
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AI got it wrong with high confidence. Now what?
In this Help Net Security interview, Christian Debes, Head of Data Analytics & AI at SPRYFOX, talks about the growing gap between what AI models do and what their operators can explain. He argues this gap is already a liability, particularly when decisions affect people or money and no one can say why a model…
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Smashing Security podcast #459: This clever scam nearly hijacked a tech CEO’s Apple ID
In episode 459 of Smashing Security, we dive into a chillingly clever account takeover attempt targeting WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg – involving MFA fatigue, real Apple alerts, a convincing support call, and a phishing page that oh-so-nearly worked. If a famous techie could have this happen to you, can you be sure you’re immune? Plus:…
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This clever scam nearly hijacked a tech CEO’s Apple ID
In episode 459 of Smashing Security, we dive into a chillingly clever account takeover attempt targeting WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg – involving MFA fatigue, real Apple alerts, a convincing support call, and a phishing page that oh-so-nearly worked. If a famous techie could have this happen to you, can you be sure you’re immune? Plus:…
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Top 8 Endpoint Detection & Response (EDR) Solutions in 2026
This guide is for IT and security teams evaluating the best endpoint detection and response (EDR) solutions in 2026, covering top platforms and the features that matter most for threat detection and response. EDR tools play a critical role in identifying and stopping threats at the device level by continuously monitoring endpoint activity and enabling…
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U.S. CISA adds Microsoft SharePoint and Zimbra flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog
U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds SharePoint and Zimbra flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added ([1, 2]) SharePoint and Zimbra flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. Below are the flaws added to the catalog: CVE-2026-20963 (CVSS score of 8.8) – Microsoft SharePoint Deserialization…
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6 Best Digital Forensics Tools Used in 2026
This guide is for security professionals, IT teams, and investigators evaluating the best digital forensics tools in 2026, covering top platforms and how they support modern investigations. As cyber incidents, insider threats, and legal disputes become more complex, organizations need reliable tools to collect, analyze, and preserve digital evidence across endpoints, networks, and cloud environments.…
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Optiv CRO: AI Driving New Enterprise Security Risks
Enterprise security teams are under increasing pressure as AI adoption accelerates, introducing new risks around identity, governance, and operational resilience. Channel Insider spoke with Optiv CRO John Hurley about how enterprise priorities are shifting—and where partners are seeing the most demand in 2026. Optiv’s advisory model reflects shift toward services-led security Optiv supports its enterprise…
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UiPath Collaborates with Microsoft to Accelerate Security and Confidence for Automated Workflows
Integration demonstrates the power of agentic automation and security platforms working together to protect modern enterprises
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Token Security advances AI agent protection with intent-based controls
Token Security has unveiled intent-based AI agent security, a new approach that governs autonomous agents in enterprise environments by aligning their permissions with their intended purpose. As organizations deploy autonomous AI agents across enterprise infrastructure, security models are struggling to contain the risks. Token Security has been advancing the concept of intent-based security for AI…
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8 Best Application Firewall (WAF) Solutions for 2026
This guide is for IT teams, security professionals, and organizations evaluating the best web application firewall (WAF) solutions in 2026, covering top platforms and how they protect modern applications. A WAF remains a critical component of a strong application security strategy, helping detect and block attacks that target web apps, APIs, and user data. As…
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Dropzone AI releases autonomous Threat Hunting agent for continuous SOC detection
Dropzone AI has released the AI Threat Hunter, its newest AI agent that enables security teams to proactively search for threats across their environments around the clock. The AI Threat Hunter is the next agent joining the Dropzone’s Agentic SOC team, expanding what AI agents can do across the full spectrum of detection and response.…
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Crypto Scam “ShieldGuard” Dismantled After Malware Discovery
ShieldGuard Chrome extension posed as a crypto security tool but stole wallets and drained user data
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Backslash adds cross-product support to secure AI skills in developer environments
Backslash Security has revealed new cross-product support for agentic AI Skills within its platform, enabling organizations to discover, assess, and apply security guardrails to Skills used across AI-native software development environments. The developer ecosystem of AI-powered coding agents and tools is rapidly expanding with new extensibility layers, including Skills, Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers, prompt…
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Menlo Security delivers unified governance and threat prevention for AI agents and humans
Menlo Security has unveiled the Browser Security Platform, purpose-built to secure the agentic enterprise, where autonomous AI agents will outnumber human employees and the browser has become the operating system for both. Menlo provides unified control plane to apply machine-speed governance and threat prevention to both human and non-human actors, deployed globally on Menlo’s elastic…
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Torq Introduces New Agentic Builder for SOC Workflows
Torq, an agentic security operations leader, has announced the debut of Agentic Builder, which turns human intent into agentic outcomes. Delivering production-grade agentic workflows An extension of the Torq AI SOC Platform, the Builder enables SOCs to shift the cognitive load of engineering security automation from humans to machines. The Agentic Builder delivers Cursor-level capabilities…
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Top 7 Full Disk Encryption Software Solutions in 2026
This guide is for IT teams, security leaders, and businesses evaluating the best full disk encryption solutions in 2026, covering how they work and why they matter for protecting sensitive data. Full disk encryption serves as a critical first line of defense by securing hard drives, external storage, and endpoints against unauthorized access. As cyber…
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Corelight’s Agentic Triage turns SOC alerts into evidence-backed investigations
Corelight has introduced a new set of agentic AI capabilities aimed at helping security operations centers (SOCs) cut down on repetitive, time-consuming tasks. The updates are designed to boost analyst efficiency, speed up response times, and build trust through greater transparency. The release includes Agentic Triage to streamline SOC workflows, a new suite of machine…
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Reco targets AI agent blind spots with new security capability
SaaS security platform Reco has decided to address the “agent sprawl” challenge from the increased adoption of AI-driven tools by enterprises. It argues that enterprises are faced with a security situation as numerous autonomous agents now traverse multiple systems, accessing sensitive data, and executing actions without direct human oversight. To help contain this risk, the…
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Top 6 Network Access Control (NAC) Solutions in 2026
This guide is for IT leaders and security teams evaluating the best network access control (NAC) solutions in 2026, highlighting top platforms and what they do best. Choosing the right NAC tool is critical for securing modern networks, managing device access, and maintaining compliance across increasingly complex environments. Below, we break down six leading solutions—each…
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Apple starts issuing lightweight security updates between software releases
Apple is delivering small security updates, called Background Security Improvements, starting with iOS 26.1, iPadOS 26.1, and macOS 26.1. Apple describes Background Security Improvements as lightweight security releases for components such as Safari, the WebKit framework, and other system libraries, delivered through ongoing patches between software updates. “In rare instances of compatibility issues, Background Security…
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How to Reduce MTTR in Your SOC with Better Threat Intelligence
MTTR is where strategy meets reality. In security operations, it is the margin between a contained incident and a catastrophic breach. You can have perfect detection coverage, cutting-edge telemetry, and a wall of dashboards glowing like a spaceship cockpit. But if your team takes too long to respond, the attacker still wins the clock. Reducing Mean Time to Respond is not about shaving seconds for vanity metrics. It is about compressing the window in which damage happens. And the fastest way to do that is not more alerts, but better intelligence. Key Takeaways MTTR is…
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Product Walkthrough: How Mesh CSMA Reveals and Breaks Attack Paths to Crown Jewels
Security teams today are not short on tools or data. They are overwhelmed by both. Yet within the terabytes of alerts, exposures, and misconfigurations – security teams still struggle to understand context: Q: Which exposures, misconfigurations, and vulnerabilities chain together to create viable attack paths to crown jewels? Even the most mature security teams can’t…
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AI Issues Will Drive Half of Incident Response Efforts by 2028, Says Gartner
Gartner has urged security teams to get involved in AI projects from the start to avoid costly incident response
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Theori brings Xint Code to market for large-scale AI code security analysis
Theori has made Xint Code commercially available, an LLM-native static application security testing (SAST) tool capable of analyzing millions of lines of source code, configuration files, and binaries in less than 12 hours. Xint Code’s approach to deep scanning and contextual analysis of massive codebases helps application security teams identify, reproduce, validate and understand the…
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1Password Users API for Partners helps automate identity response during incidents
1Password has announced the public preview of Users API for Partners, which allows security teams to respond to incidents faster during active security events. Launch partners like CrowdStrike, in addition to BlinkOps, Elastic, Sumo Logic, Tines, and Torq enable mutual customers to automatically suspend or restore users in 1Password Enterprise Password Manager when risk is…
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ManageEngine expands Endpoint Central with EDR and secure access
ManageEngine has announced the expansion of its unified endpoint management and security (UEMS) platform, Endpoint Central, to include endpoint detection and response (EDR) and secure private access capabilities. The additions bolster Endpoint Central’s endpoint security capabilities by enabling AI-powered threat detection, automated remediation, and zero trust access to internal applications through device trust verification. As…
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Ubuntu CVE-2026-3888 Bug Lets Attackers Gain Root via systemd Cleanup Timing Exploit
A high-severity security flaw affecting default installations of Ubuntu Desktop versions 24.04 and later could be exploited to escalate privileges to the root level. Tracked as CVE-2026-3888 (CVSS score: 7.8), the issue could allow an attacker to seize control of a susceptible system. “This flaw (CVE-2026-3888) allows an unprivileged local attacker to escalate privileges to…
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Tufin introduces AI agents to take on network security work
Tufin is launching a new collection of AI agents designed to take on network security tasks for teams that are already stretched thin. This helps free up scarce expertise to focus on higher-level risks, critical decisions, and defending the enterprise. Enterprise infrastructure is becoming more dynamic, decentralized, and harder to secure. Tufin’s Network Connectivity Graph,…
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Apple Fixes WebKit Vulnerability Enabling Same-Origin Policy Bypass on iOS and macOS
Apple on Tuesday released its first round of Background Security Improvements to address a security flaw in WebKit that affects iOS, iPadOS, and macOS. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-20643 (CVSS score: N/A), has been described as a cross-origin issue in WebKit’s Navigation API that could be exploited to bypass the same-origin policy when processing maliciously…
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Stop building security goals around controls
In this Help Net Security interview, Devin Rudnicki, CISO at Fitch Group, argues that security strategy fails when it loses its connection to business outcomes. Rudnicki walks through how to align security goals with corporate priorities, why CISOs must present risk in terms leadership can act on, and how to balance innovation speed with measured…
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Critical Unpatched Telnetd Flaw (CVE-2026-32746) Enables Unauthenticated Root RCE via Port 23
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a critical security flaw impacting the GNU InetUtils telnet daemon (telnetd) that could be exploited by an unauthenticated remote attacker to execute arbitrary code with elevated privileges. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-32746, carries a CVSS score of 9.8 out of 10.0. It has been described as a case of out-of-bounds write…
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News alert: Orchid Security brings Zero-Trust to AI Agent identities, earns Gartner recognition
NEW YORK, Mar. 17, 2026, CyberNewswire—Orchid Security, the company bringing clarity and control to the complexity of enterprise identity, today announced it has been recognized as a Representative Vendor in Gartner’s Market Guide for Guardian Agents, as a vendor “managing the identities/access for AI agents with zero-trust policies and governance.” In this inaugural market guide,…
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Apple pushes first Background Security Improvements update to fix WebKit flaw
Apple has released its first Background Security Improvements update to fix a WebKit flaw tracked as CVE-2026-20643 on iPhones, iPads, and Macs without requiring a full operating system upgrade. […]
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News alert: GitGuardian study shows AI coding tools double leak rates as 29M credentials hit GitHub
NEW YORK, Mar.17, 2026, CyberNewswire — GitGuardian, the security leader behind GitHub’s most installed application, today released the 5th edition of its “State of Secrets Sprawl” report, documenting how mainstream AI adoption in 2025 reshaped software delivery and accelerated the exposure of non-human identities (NHIs) and their secrets across public and internal systems. While the…
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6 Open-Source Vulnerability Scanners That Actually Work in 2026
This guide is designed for security professionals and IT teams looking to identify and remediate risks, covering the top open-source vulnerability scanners available today and how to use them effectively. Open-source vulnerability scanners offer a cost-effective way to identify security weaknesses before attackers can exploit them. Backed by transparent codebases and active security communities, these…
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The AI Exchange: Innovators in Payment Security Featuring Toast, Inc.
Welcome to the PCI Security Standards Council’s blog series, The AI Exchange: Innovators in Payment Security. This special, ongoing feature of our PCI Perspectives blog offers a resource for payment security industry stakeholders to exchange information about how they are adopting and implementing artificial intelligence (AI) into their organizations.
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Every significant B2B company is becoming a security company
Every platform giant is becoming a security company. As every enterprise is becoming more and more tech-enabled, the responsibility for protecting data, identities, and infrastructure starts to fall on the platforms where that work happens. Over the past several years, I have come to a simple realization: that every platform vendor eventually becomes a security…
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Blumira Intros EDR and ITDR Solutions, Joins Pax8 Marketplace
Blumira, a security operations platform, is releasing enhanced endpoint detection and response (EDR) and identity threat detection and response (ITDR) capabilities. The company also recently joined the Pax8 Marketplace to deliver enterprise security operations to MSPs. Stopping threats at speed These newly expanded capabilities will enable security teams on Blumira Respond and Automate editions to…
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Huntress adds tools to its Agentic Security Platform to detect, fix, and prevent endpoint and identity risks
Huntress has announced Managed Endpoint Security Posture Management (ESPM) and Managed Identity Security Posture Management (ISPM), expanding its Agentic Security Platform to deliver end-to-end protection across endpoints, identities, and human risk. Huntress built Managed ESPM from the ground up and developed Managed ISPM in less than four months by leveraging expertise and capabilities from its…
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Druva Adds Identity Resilience for Okta, AD, and Entra ID
Druva, a data security company, has announced that Druva Identity Resilience now supports Okta and Microsoft Active Directory, in addition to Microsoft Entra ID. Druva Identity Resilience delivers unified protection, cyber recovery, and threat detection and response within a SaaS platform, bringing disparate identity providers together so security and IT teams can restore trusted access…
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Saviynt Appoints Alex Lei to Drive Identity Security Growth Across Asia Pacific and Japan
COMPANY ANNOUNCEMENT: Enterprise security veteran to lead regional sales strategy as organisations across APJ strengthen identity-first cybersecurity Key Highlights: The appointment comes as organisations across APJ increase investment in identity security to support cloud adoption, AI initiatives, and evolving cyber risks Lei will oversee customer acquisition, partner strategy, and go-to-market execution across APJ
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AI is Everywhere, But CISOs are Still Securing It with Yesterday’s Skills and Tools, Study Finds
A majority of security leaders are struggling to defend AI systems with tools and skills that are not fit for the challenge, according to the AI and Adversarial Testing Benchmark Report 2026 from Pentera. The report, based on a survey of 300 US CISOs and senior security leaders, examines how organizations are securing AI infrastructure…
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TrendAI to secure enterprise adoption of agentic AI with NVIDIA
TrendAI to support NVIDIA OpenShell open source runtime to add security for autonomous AI agents
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Proofpoint addresses AI threats with intent-based security
Proofpoint has announced Proofpoint AI Security, the newest security solution that combines intent-based detection, multi-surface control points, and a comprehensive implementation framework to secure how humans and AI agents use AI across the enterprise. Based on the Agent Integrity Framework, which defines how an AI agent operates with integrity, Proofpoint is introducing a five-phase maturity…
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Average Number of Daily API Attacks Up 113% Annually
Akamai says 87% of organizations suffered an API-related security incident last year
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What to do in the first 24 hours of a breach
In this Help Net Security video, Arvind Parthasarathi, CEO of CYGNVS, walks through a 10-step process for handling a cybersecurity breach. The first five steps cover preparation: setting up an out-of-band communication platform, identifying internal stakeholders, selecting external providers like legal counsel and forensic firms, building cross-functional playbooks, and running tabletop exercises to test those…
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CISA Flags Actively Exploited Wing FTP Vulnerability Leaking Server Paths
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Monday added a medium-severity security flaw impacting Wing FTP to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation. The vulnerability, CVE-2025-47813 (CVSS score: 4.3), is an information disclosure vulnerability that leaks the installation path of the application under certain conditions
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Cybersecurity jobs available right now: March 17, 2026
Application Security DevSecOps Specialist NTT DATA | Italy | On-site – View job details As an Application Security DevSecOps Specialist, you will integrate security into CI/CD pipelines using tools such as SAST, DAST, SCA, secret scanning, and container scanning to ensure secure software delivery. You will conduct code security reviews, triage findings, and collaborate with…
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U.S. CISA adds a flaw in Wing FTP Server to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds a flaw in Wing FTP Server to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added a Wing FTP Server flaw, tracked as CVE-2025-47813 (CVSS score of 4.3), to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. CVE-2025-47813 is an information disclosure vulnerability affecting Wing FTP…
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Microsoft Issues Hotpatch for Windows 11 RRAS RCE Bugs
Microsoft has issued an out-of-band security update to address several critical vulnerabilities in Windows 11 that could allow attackers to execute malicious code through the system’s remote access management tools. The patch targets flaws in the Windows Routing and Remote Access Service (RRAS) and is being delivered as a hotpatch, allowing systems to receive the…
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⚡ Weekly Recap: Chrome 0-Days, Router Botnets, AWS Breach, Rogue AI Agents & More
Some weeks in security feel normal. Then you read a few tabs and get that immediate “ah, great, we’re doing this now” feeling. This week has that energy. Fresh messes, old problems getting sharper, and research that stops feeling theoretical real fast. A few bits hit a little too close to real life, too. There’s…
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Orca Platform enhancements use AI to cut cloud alert noise
Orca Security has announced major enhancements to the Orca Platform, introducing new AI-powered security agents, real-time detection of AI usage across cloud environments, remediation-focused workflows, and code reachability analysis. These innovations enable organizations to move beyond fragmented alerts toward faster investigation, clearer prioritization, and measurable risk reduction. As enterprises accelerate AI adoption and scale across…
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Nutanix Unveils Nutanix Agentic AI, Full Stack Software Solution to Unlock the Potential of Enterprise AI Factories
COMPANY NEWS: Designed to deliver performance, compliance, and security for Agentic AI applications and help minimise aggregate token costs Empowers enterprise infrastructure and platform teams to simply build, scale, and operate AI factories Enables developer teams with a rich set of AI PaaS services integrated with NVIDIA AI Enterprise to accelerate deployment of Agentic AI…
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HID 2026 State of Security and Identity Report
GUEST OPINION: As organisations navigate an increasingly complex security landscape, the convergence of physical and digital identity is rapidly reshaping how enterprises protect people, systems and data. New insights from HID’s 2026 State of Security and Identity Report show identity management has become the central pillar of modern security strategies, as businesses respond to AI-enabled…
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SailPoint signs strategic collaboration agreement with AWS to secure agentic AI with a unified identity governance layer
New agreement to accelerate the adoption of identity-first security for AI and unlock new routes to market
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Why Security Validation Is Becoming Agentic
If you run security at any reasonably complex organization, your validation stack probably looks something like this: a BAS tool in one corner. A pentest engagement, or maybe an automated pentesting product, in another. A vulnerability scanner feeding an attack surface management platform somewhere else. Each tool gives you a slice of the picture. None…
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Nine critical vulnerabilities in Linux AppArmor put over 12M enterprise systems at risk
Security researchers at Qualys have disclosed nine vulnerabilities in AppArmor, the Linux Security Module that ships enabled by default across Ubuntu, Debian, and SUSE distributions. An unprivileged local attacker can exploit the flaws to gain full root access, break out of container isolation, and crash systems, all without requiring administrative credentials, the researchers said in…
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JSOC IT’s AUTOPSY platform puts security stacks under live API verification
JSOC IT has announced the launch of AUTOPSY, a security verification platform that investigates an organization’s security stack through live API integrations before a breach occurs, rather than after one forces the conversation. The platform’s flagship product, READY, is a security assessment that replaces self-reported questionnaires with API-verified telemetry across an organization’s security stack, including…
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What smart factories keep getting wrong about cybersecurity
In this Help Net Security interview, Packsize CSO Troy Rydman breaks down the biggest vulnerabilities in smart factory environments today, from IoT devices and legacy systems to human error. He explains how unmanaged devices, from sensors to robotic components, often go unpatched and become entry points for attackers. Legacy infrastructure is frequently overlooked as organizations…
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Android 17 Blocks Non-Accessibility Apps from Accessibility API to Prevent Malware Abuse
Google is testing a new security feature as part of Android Advanced Protection Mode (AAPM) that prevents certain kinds of apps from using the accessibility services API. The change, incorporated in Android 17 Beta 2, was first reported by Android Authority last week. AAPM was introduced by Google in Android 16, released last year. When…
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When insider risk is a wellbeing issue, not just a disciplinary one
Written by Katie Barnett, Director of Cyber Security at Toro Solutions Insider risk is still often framed around intent, with the focus placed on malicious employees, disgruntled contractors, or deliberate misuse of access for personal gain.Those cases exist and they matter, but they are rarely where risk first begins, and they do not reflect how…
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SECURITY AFFAIRS MALWARE NEWSLETTER ROUND 88
Security Affairs Malware newsletter includes a collection of the best articles and research on malware in the international landscape Malware Newsletter New BoryptGrab Stealer Targets Windows Users via Deceptive GitHub Pages Inside Coruna: Reverse Engineering a Nation-State iOS Exploit Kit From JavaScript ClipXDaemon: Autonomous X11 Clipboard Hijacker Delivered via Bincrypter-Based Loader New A0Backdoor Linked to…
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Security Affairs newsletter Round 567 by Pierluigi Paganini – INTERNATIONAL EDITION
A new round of the weekly Security Affairs newsletter has arrived! Every week, the best security articles from Security Affairs are free in your email box. Enjoy a new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter, including the international press. Starbucks data breach impacts 889 employees Storm-2561 lures victims to spoofed VPN sites to harvest corporate…
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F5 advances enterprise application security for the AI and post-quantum era
New security innovations in the F5 Application Delivery and Security Platform unify AI-driven protection, zero trust access, and post-quantum readiness across hybrid multicloud environments
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How to Choose the Best Security Companies in Fort Worth for Your Business
In this post, I will show how to choose the best security companies in Fort Worth for your business. Fort Worth is one of the fastest-growing business hubs in Texas. From commercial offices and warehouses to retail centers and construction projects, businesses across the city require reliable protection. Choosing the right security companies in Fort…
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Microsoft re-releases Windows 11 OOB hotpatch to fix RRAS RCE flaw
Microsoft has released an out-of-band (OOB) update to fix a security vulnerabilities affecting Windows 11 Enterprise devices that receive hotpatch updates instead of the regular Patch Tuesday cumulative updates. […]
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Microsoft releases Windows 11 OOB hotpatch to fix RRAS RCE flaw
Microsoft has released an out-of-band (OOB) update to fix a security vulnerabilities affecting Windows 11 Enterprise devices that receive hotpatch updates instead of the regular Patch Tuesday cumulative updates. […]
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U.S. CISA adds Google Chrome flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog
U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds Google Chrome flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added two Google Chrome flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. Below are the flaws added to the catalog: CVE-2026-3909 Google Skia Out-of-Bounds Write Vulnerability CVE-2026-3910 Google Chromium V8 Unspecified Vulnerability This…
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Hackers targeted Poland’s National Centre for Nuclear Research
Hackers targeted Poland’s National Centre for Nuclear Research, but security systems detected and blocked the attack before any damage. The National Centre for Nuclear Research in Poland reported a cyberattack on its IT infrastructure. The intrusion attempt was quickly detected by security systems, allowing staff to secure the targeted systems and prevent any operational impact.…
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Veeam warns admins to patch now as critical RCE flaws hit Backup & Replication
Backup vendor Veeam has released security updates to patch multiple vulnerabilities in its widely used Backup and Replication platform, including three critical flaws that could allow authenticated users to execute code on backup servers. Detailed in the company’s advisory KB4830, the vulnerabilities affect Veeam Backup & Replication 12.3.2.4165 and earlier version 12 builds, with fixes…
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Flexible, Modernized Threat Protection in Cisco Secure Firewall 10.0
Cisco Secure Firewall 10.0 expands protection, better matches security rules to users and apps, & offers better threat detection. Learn more in our blog.
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Google Fixes Two Chrome Zero-Days Exploited in the Wild Affecting Skia and V8
Google on Thursday released security updates for its Chrome web browser to address two high-severity vulnerabilities that it said have been exploited in the wild. The list of vulnerabilities is as follows – CVE-2026-3909 (CVSS score: 8.8) – An out-of-bounds write vulnerability in the Skia 2D graphics library that allows a remote attacker to perform…