Ontinue has announced the launch of ION for Dark Web Monitoring (DWM), a new managed add-on service that extends ION MXDR to continuously identify exposed…
Category: Help Net Security
Transcend Rails brings policy enforcement and spending controls to AI agents
Transcend has launched Transcend Rails, a new category of agent management that goes beyond identity and access control to govern what an agent does.…
Hack The Box helps enterprises evaluate AI agents for cybersecurity roles
Hack The Box has introduced AI Range Enterprise Edition, making its platform for testing and measuring AI security agent effectiveness available to…
GitHub’s ReviewBench puts AI code reviewers to the test
GitHub’s ReviewBench measures how well AI code review tools detect problems before software is released. Available in research preview through its…
Data breach at Denmark’s population register exposes 8.8 million people
A data breach at Denmark’s Central Population Register (CPR) has exposed the personal information of 8.8 million people. These include people living in…
U.S. Bank CISO says the security role keeps growing and no one can own all of it
In this interview with Help Net Security, Ann Barron-DiCamillo, EVP, CISO at U.S. Bank, talks about how the CISO role has grown to cover fraud,…
Reflection’s Beam trails top open models on coding tests but claims lower inference compute
Reflection AI has built Beam, a 501-billion-parameter open-weight model for coding and agent tasks, and plans to publish the weights under an Apache 2.0…
NIS2 compliance: 7 low-cost steps to secure credentials
Security budgets rarely stretch to cover a full NIS2 programme in one pass. Credential controls are where a constrained team can start, because they make…
Product showcase: Webroot Mobile Security screens texts, blocks risky sites, and checks for data leaks
Webroot Mobile Security combines device security checks, Safari protection, text scam filtering, and data breach monitoring. It is available for iPhone,…
Cybersecurity jobs available right now: October 6, 2026
Associate IAM Engineer New York City Office of Technology & Innovation | USA | On-site – View job details As an Associate IAM Engineer, you will support…
CISA flags new exploited NetScaler flaw as attackers crash appliances (CVE-2026-88779)
CISA has added another Citrix NetScaler vulnerability to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on Sunday: CVE-2026-88779, a memory overflow bug that…
Stellar Cyber 7.0 adds measurable workflows for AI-powered SOCs
Stellar Cyber has announced Stellar Cyber 7.0, a release that advances the Human-Augmented Autonomous SOC from a vision for applying AI to security…
Fake brand discounts on social media prey on shoppers’ fear of missing out
Cybercriminals are using fake discounts posted on Facebook and TikTok to lure shoppers to phishing sites that steal their payment card details and…
Malwarebytes Scam Link Check analyzes URLs and explains potential risks
Malwarebytes has launched the Malwarebytes Scam Link Check, a free web tool that lets anyone check whether a website link is safe or dangerous before…
LTM launches BlueVerse AgenTraceIQ to monitor AI agents and reverse unintended actions
LTM has announced the launch of BlueVerse AgenTraceIQ, an offering designed to help organizations securely adopt and scale agentic AI. Combining Rubrik…
RemoveMacAI turns off Apple Intelligence on macOS 27 and deletes its models
A developer has released RemoveMacAI, a free command-line tool that turns off Apple Intelligence on macOS 27 and deletes about 12 GB of downloaded AI…
Out-of-band Exchange Server update fixes high-severity mailbox access bug (CVE-2026-96940)
Microsoft has pushed out an out-of-band security update for Exchange Server that fixes a high-severity vulnerability (CVE-2026-96940) that may allow…
Detained ShinyHunters hacker reportedly helping FBI track down fellow members
A suspected ShinyHunters member known as Rey has been detained in Jordan and is reportedly helping the FBI track down the rest of the group. Reuters…
MAKERphone 2: A DIY 4G phone with plug-in camera, speaker and prototyping board
CircuitMess, a Croatian electronics kit maker, is selling MAKERphone 2.0, a build-it-yourself 4G phone on Kickstarter that buyers program in MicroPython…
Apple tightens macOS disk access as AI agents become more powerful
Apple plans to introduce additional controls for Full Disk Access in macOS, citing growing privacy risks as AI agents become more capable and autonomous.…