Dawnguard announced the public launch of its security architecture automation platform, making it available to organizations looking to design, build, and operate secure cloud-native systems from day zero through production. The launch marks the company’s move from enterprise design partnerships…
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Netzilo adds runtime governance for AI agents across major platforms
Netzilo has announced expanded AI agent governance and runtime enforcement capabilities for Amazon Bedrock AgentCore and other major AI agent harnesses. As enterprises move AI agents from experimentation into production, agents are becoming a new enterprise edge. They operate across…
Intruder offers Free security plan for lean IT and security teams
Intruder has announced the launch of its Free plan, providing security, IT, and DevOps teams ongoing access to professional-grade vulnerability management, cloud security, and attack surface management at no cost. Smaller organizations face the same threats as Fortune 500 companies,…
The ARToken phishing panel targets Microsoft 365 accounts
Accounts-payable staff at U.S. companies keep receiving invoice emails that look like they come from vendors they already work with. One landed at a life-sciences company in April 2026, addressed to the person who handles payments and written in the…
Claude Sonnet 5 includes safeguards against dangerous cyber use
Anthropic has introduced Claude Sonnet 5, the latest version of its general-purpose AI model, with improved reasoning, coding, tool use, and knowledge work capabilities. The model can make plans, use tools such as browsers and terminals, and complete tasks autonomously.…
What a financial planner taught me about cybersecurity
When I spoke at a recent cybersecurity awareness event for financial planners and tax advisors, the audience really engaged with the subject. As happens at conferences the world over, people often come up to speakers to ask follow-up questions, or…
Nika: Open-source code analysis tool
Many serious security bugs in web applications sit across several files at once. Request data enters through a controller, moves through data objects and service layers, and turns dangerous only when it reaches a sensitive operation such as a database…
This supercomputer encrypts your data even while it’s running it
Most people who handle sensitive data already encrypt it in two places. They lock it down when it sits on a hard drive, and they lock it down when it moves across a network. There has always been a third…
Microsoft wants to stop unwanted bots from entering Teams meetings
A new Microsoft Teams admin policy, Manage external bots and their access to meetings, gives organizations greater visibility and control over external bots in meetings. The policy identifies bots and applies safeguards before they are admitted. Microsoft will begin retiring…
AI-generated code risks reach security, legal, and compliance teams
Most engineering organizations write code with AI, and a good number of them keep that code away from customers. A Flux survey of engineering leaders and practitioners found that nearly half run AI-generated code in production. Almost every company in…
Getting boards to fund ERM means speaking their currency
In this Help Net Security video, Greg Young, VP Cybersecurity and Corporate Development at TrendAI, explains how to build Enterprise Risk Management that a board will pay for. Drawing on nearly four decades in cybersecurity, including time as a CISO…
Proton’s pitch for Lumo 2.0: Frontier AI without the data grab
Proton has unveiled Lumo 2.0, a major upgrade to its zero-access encrypted AI assistant. Built on a new architecture, the release brings the assistant closer to frontier AI models with new AI models, multimodal capabilities, Memory, improved web search, and…
Aikido Security acquires Root to expand backported fixes for open source vulnerabilities
Aikido Security has acquired Root, uniting behind a shared mission to make it easy for developers and agents to build with secure open source and tackle the growing threat of supply chain attacks. Open source is the foundation of almost…
Digi International’s DANI automates network diagnostics and device management
Digi International has announced the launch of DANI, the Digi Artificial Network Intelligence agent, a purpose-built AI network operations agent natively embedded in a networking device management platform, Digi Remote Manager (DRM). Embedded directly within DRM as a value-added service,…
Jamf enables AI Governance and shadow AI detection on Mac
Jamf has announced general availability of AI Governance, a new capability within Jamf for Mac that enables IT and security teams to discover actively-used AI tools, enforce policy controls, and generate audit-ready reporting. Many organizations struggle to confidently audit and…
Cequence Platform 9.0 uses AI to simplify API security and compliance
Cequence Security has announced general availability of Cequence Platform 9.0, an AI-native release that changes how users interact with API security tools. Platform 9.0 ships with a built-in AI Assistant, an open Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that exposes every…
Oracle E-Business Suite Payments flaw under attack (CVE-2026-46817)
Exploitation attempts targeting a critical vulnerability (CVE-2026-46817) in Oracle Payments, the payment-processing module within Oracle’s E-Business Suite (EBS), have been spotted over the weekend, threat intelligence company Defused warned on Monday. The detected exploitation attempts (Source: Defused) “On 27 June…
OpenMatter Network brings verifiable trust to AI governance
OpenMatter Network has announced the launch of its cryptographically verifiable platform for secure collaboration and AI governance, built on a simple premise: Don’t Trust Data. Prove It. For decades, organizations have relied on trust-based assumptions to secure data, execute workloads…
SimpleHelp vulnerability exploited to deliver mighty Djinn Stealer (CVE-2026-48558)
Attackers are exploiting CVE-2026-48558, a recently patched authentication bypass vulnerability in SimpleHelp RMM, to drop the novel Djinn Stealer malware on victim computers. The malware is capable of targeting Windows, macOS, and Linux systems, and “collects credentials associated with cloud…
Kali Linux 2026.2 trims VM boot times, refreshes its desktops
Penetration testers who run Kali Linux inside virtual machines boot their systems faster after the 2026.2 release. The change comes from a decision about graphics firmware, the code that drives NVIDIA, AMD, and Intel GPUs. That firmware has grown large…