In this Help Net Security interview, Brian Blakley, CISO at Bellini Capital, explains why AI makes finding vulnerabilities faster while fixing them still…
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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,…
NIST starts the countdown to retire quantum-vulnerable encryption
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has released a roadmap for moving to post-quantum cryptography (PQC), with earlier deadlines for…
Breach victims discover their data was held by companies they’ve never heard of
Nearly seven in ten people affected by data breaches handled by Kroll were exposed through an outside supplier, according to its Data Breach Outlook 2026.…
Brotli bug reaches far beyond Node.js (CVE-2026-111497)
A vulnerability in Brotli, Google’s widely used open-source compression library, is putting a broad range of software at risk. About CVE-2026-111497…
Hackers bury inboxes in spam then show up on Microsoft Teams posing as IT support
Threat actors are flooding employees’ inboxes with spam and then contacting them on Microsoft Teams as IT support, offering to fix the problem they…
Socure links AI agents to verified people and businesses
Socure has launched Agent Intelligence, a suite that detects AI agents, scores whether they should be trusted, and ties each agent to the verified person…
DNSFilter LUMINATE unifies DNS security, AI controls and remote work protection
DNSFilter has launched LUMINATE by DNSFilter, a security platform that allows organizations to deliver five security solutions from one agent, one console…
Sekoia introduces self-hosted deployment for organizations with strict data controls
Sekoia has introduced Sekoia Self-Hosted, a deployment model that brings the Sekoia SOC platform into the customer’s own infrastructure. Designed for…
Exeon expands threat detection to shadow AI and autonomous agents
Exeon Analytics has introduced Exeon.AgentGuard, a new AI security solution designed to give organizations visibility into approved and shadow AI use,…
FireMon Agentic AI helps teams investigate access and prepare policy changes
FireMon has announced FireMon Agentic AI, changing how enterprises investigate network access, make policy decisions, and prepare security changes. Built…
ThreatAware brings governance to AI-built security applications
ThreatAware has announced the launch of Dimension, its governed workspace that provides organisations with a foundation for building, running and managing…
CISA lays out plan to push cyber adversaries out of US critical infrastructure
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has released CISA 2030: Defend, Harden, Prevail, a strategy to strengthen national security…
Cyberattack disrupts University of New Mexico hospitals, extortion group claims attack
University of New Mexico (UNM) Health Sciences Center (HSC), the academic medical arm of the University of New Mexico, has suffered a cyberattack that has…
Cyberattack on University of Copenhagen exposes data of 525,000 people
The University of Copenhagen (UCPH) has ruled out a second cyberattack, saying the activity that led it to shut down several administrative systems on…
Private repos still leak secrets to Gheist, a stolen GitHub token campaign
Wiz Research has recovered more than 13,500 planted branches from 850+ compromised GitHub accounts, the work of a campaign it calls Gheist, after the user…
DreamHost incident triggers password resets, locks customers out of email and FTP accounts
DreamHost has brought its File Manager back online after an incident that disrupted several of its services, though some of its customers still can’t get…
Several AI security market categories are headed for bigger platforms
In this interview with Help Net Security, Jonathan Care, Lead Analyst and Practice Lead AI at KuppingerCole Analysts, compares AI security startups to the…
Microsoft Authenticator vulnerability let rogue Android apps steal work account access
If you use Microsoft Authenticator on Android, update it. Researchers at Enclave found a flaw that let any app on your phone quietly take over your work…
LLM agent security needs more than guardrails
Madhu Shashanka, Chief Scientist at Concentric AI, explains why securing LLM tools and agents depends more on your data than on the model. Controls on…