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Security certification is a snapshot, and buyers read too much into it
In this Help Net Security video, Mariia Bakhtina, a research specialist at Masaryk University, explains what a Common Criteria or FIPS-140 certificate…
87% say their AI controls need to work better
The AI running inside large companies has stopped waiting for permission. Across five categories of AI, from chatbots to process automation, more than…
99% of repository access tokens never expire
Developers, automated tools and AI coding agents hold permissions that can outlast the work they were granted for. Without access reviews, organizations…
Rental phishing sites use live chat to win over hesitant travelers
Holiday travelers looking for a place to stay are landing on copies of popular rental platforms, complete with host names, ratings and reviews, that ask…
Cyberhaven launches Agentic Data Security to track and control AI data use
Cyberhaven has introduced Agentic Data Security (ADS), to help CISOs, data security teams, insider risk teams, and AI governance leaders say yes to AI…
Vercel ties login sessions to devices, rolls out AI security reviews in public beta
Vercel, the popular cloud platform for building and hosting websites and web applications, has announced the rollout of Device Bound Session Credentials…
Arkose Labs expands Agent Trust Manager to govern agent sessions
Arkose Labs has expanded Arkose Agent Trust Manager to help businesses control agentic traffic. Companies can classify agent sessions, apply allow,…
Rubrik hosts NAS backups in isolated, immutable vaults
Rubrik has announced Rubrik-Hosted Protection for On-Premise Unstructured Data. The offering is built on Rubrik’s Network Attached Storage (NAS) Cloud…
Cyberattack on Norway’s aid agency may have swept up all user data
The names and email addresses of 20,614 people registered on Norad’s Grants Portal may have ended up in the hands of attackers, Norway’s development aid…
Box pairs agentic workflow plans with new threat protections
Box has announced new capabilities to transform how organizations put agents to work across their most critical business processes. Box unveiled Box…
Sysdig AI Defense puts runtime guardrails on AI agents
Sysdig has announced the general availability of Sysdig AI Defense, giving organizations tools to monitor and control AI agent activity across endpoints…
PortSwigger’s Burp AT lets enterprises delegate pentests with defined limits
PortSwigger has announced the availability of Burp AT for enterprises, an agentic pentesting solution that helps security teams investigate important…
Patched Zyxel GS1900 switches remained open to in-the-wild exploit (CVE-2026-107441)
Zyxel GS1900 series network switches that received a fix for a flaw that was later reported to have been exploited in the wild are still open to an…
Scammers capitalize on GTA 6 hype to push malware and crypto cons
Scammers are offering supposed leaked builds, early copies and phone versions of Grand Theft Auto VI (GTA 6) weeks before the game’s November 19 launch,…
Google puts new limits on AI agents that hunt threats and fix vulnerabilities
Google Cloud is adding new controls to CodeMender, its AI tool for finding and fixing software vulnerabilities, allowing businesses to isolate attack…
OpenAI’s upcoming AI model built 948 working Linux root exploits in a single run
An automated system running on an upcoming AI model turned hundreds of Linux kernel bugs into working exploits that give an ordinary user root access, and…
A banking malware sample led researchers to an Android bug that can loop-crash phones
Bitdefender Labs researchers built an Android app that contains no executable code and requests no permissions, and installing it leaves a Pixel 10 in a…
Apple is bringing harmful content checks to iCloud link sharing with potential account penalties
Apple will begin checking iCloud content shared using the “Anyone with the link” option for harmful material in iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and visionOS 27.3 or…
AI agent detection signals that still work when agents look human
Bots follow a script. AI agents work toward a goal and choose their own steps, which makes them harder to catch. In this Help Net Security interview,…