In this Help Net Security interview, Nathan Smolenski, CISO at Qualys, talks about how security teams can handle the growing volume of AI-discovered…
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IT bosses are confident they’ve found the certificates they don’t know about
Forty percent of 500 senior IT and security leaders surveyed for certificate authority Sectigo said they are very prepared for monthly TLS certificate…
Shame and sleepless nights haunt scam victims long after the money is gone
Scams and identity theft hurt people in different ways, and recovering involves much more than getting money back, according to ITRC’s 2026 Consumer…
Stolen staff logins are spreading attacks between K-12 school districts
Last school year, 808 K-12 school organizations got some unwelcome news. The Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center (MS-ISAC) told them their…
GitHub’s npm package firewall can block brand-new versions before they install
GitHub announced a package firewall that checks npm packages against an enterprise’s policy before they install. It blocks known malware, critical…
I underestimated how fast security teams would trust AI to act in the SOC
For most of my career, I have watched new security platforms work through enterprise programs at a slow pace, so when AI began showing up in security…
ControlUp’s Pulse AI Resolve diagnoses and fixes IT issues within admin-defined controls
ControlUp has announced Pulse AI Resolve, the real-time investigative AI layer of the Pulse AI ecosystem. A major enhancement of ControlUp’s endpoint…
345,000 email addresses stolen in cyberattack on Germany’s far-right party AfD
Over 345,000 unique email addresses were exposed in the September 2026 breach at German far-right political party Alternative für Deutschland (AfD).…
Compromised camera management software gives attackers a way into corporate networks
Attackers have been breaking into business networks through camera management software, according to new research from security firm Huntress, which…
Digitate adds AI agents for patch planning, service desks, and SAP operations
Digitate has announced ignio Hummingbird, the latest release of its agentic AIOps platform. Hummingbird introduces AI agents that bring operational…
VikingCloud gives businesses a scorecard for AI governance readiness
VikingCloud has launched AI Governance Services, a new set of compliance and risk assessments that find the AI tools in use across a business, show where…
Swimlane connects custom detections to AI-led investigation and response
Swimlane has announced new capabilities in the Swimlane Turbine platform that allow security teams to run their own detection logic against large volumes…
Upwind secures $400 million to protect AI across endpoints, code, and cloud
Upwind Security has raised $400 million in Series C funding to expand its cloud and AI security platform, bringing the company’s total funding to more…
Tailscale fixes SSH flaws allowing lateral movement within tailnets
Tailscale, the company behind the popular software-defined mesh networking and connectivity platform of the same name, has shipped fixes for several…
Ukrainian ransomware hacker sentenced, $11 million reward offered for co-conspirator
A Ukrainian national who participated in ransomware attacks targeting hospitals, government entities, law firms, and other businesses was sentenced to…
FBI seizes Virtualine, bulletproof hosting provider that promised to shield criminals from police
The FBI has seized virtualine.net, the domain of a bulletproof hosting provider that laundered money for its criminal customers and kept a forum trading…
Data breach at Sony-owned internet provider compromises 2.6 million customer records
Attackers who broke into the So-net member database made off with personal information belonging to more than 2.58 million current and former customers,…
CISA updates ScubaGear and ScubaGoggles, and says Microsoft 365 checks get faster
CISA released ScubaGear v2.0 and ScubaGoggles v1.1.0, new versions of the open-source tools it publishes to check Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace…
Bellini Capital CISO on AI security governance and the limits of patching faster
In this Help Net Security interview, Brian Blakley, CISO at Bellini Capital, explains why AI makes finding vulnerabilities faster while fixing them still…
AbuseBox: Open-source monitor for blacklists, DNS, SSL and email records
AbuseBox is a free, open-source tool that checks IP addresses and domains against 60 DNS blacklists, pulls reputation scores from AbuseIPDB, inspects DNS,…