Microsoft’s August 2026 Patch Tuesday delivered security fixes for 400+ vulnerabilities, including one that has been exploited in zero-day attacks…
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ConnectSecure helps MSPs automate Microsoft 365 security remediation
ConnectSecure has announced that Microsoft 365 Auto Remediation and AI-powered Training Assessments are now live on the ConnectSecure platform. The…
CBTS brings continuous penetration testing to enterprise security
CBTS has launched Penetration Testing as a Service (PTaaS), combining autonomous penetration testing with security expertise to help organizations…
Crytica’s RDAi detects OT device tampering from within
Crytica Security has developed a patented solution that delivers rapid, deterministic threat detection for operational technology (OT), protecting the…
Chrome’s anti-abuse protections block 7 billion unwanted Android notifications daily
Google Chrome’s latest measures against abusive web push notifications include automatically revoking notification permissions for inactive and suspicious…
Split-second deepfake glitch blows digital certificate fraudster’s cover
Spanish police have arrested a man in Murcia accused of using deepfake software to trick a certificate provider’s video identity checks in an attempt to…
Post-quantum migration gets harder when every user holds a key
In this Help Net Security interview, Christopher Smith, CEO of Quantus, discusses what cryptographic inventories turn up in banks and hospitals, including…
PentestGPT: Open-source automated penetration testing agentic framework
PentestGPT is an open-source penetration testing agent that points a large language model at a target and lets it work. In its default mode it runs recon,…
338 million attack simulations reveal the state of enterprise defense
First, a bit of good news: Enterprise defenses are recovering. However, it’s a narrow recovery, with a twist. Today, organizations are better at stopping…
Ready-made $500 kit puts a crypto scam within anyone’s reach
A seller on a cybercrime forum is offering a ready-made scam kit for $500, complete with an admin panel that tracks victims, checks their crypto wallets…
AI deployments are stretching enterprise security to its limits
CISOs and CTOs expect AI deployments to increase their organizations’ attack surface by an average of 14% over the next year. Nearly all lack visibility…
Arctera enhances Unified Platform for evidence-driven compliance workflows
Arctera has announced new capabilities to the Arctera Unified Platform enabling organizations to manage complex governance requirements by connecting…
Citrix expands Platform Flex with observability and secure developer services
Citrix has announced new services for Citrix Platform Flex, extending its flexible credit model with additional options for delivering, monitoring and…
Malicious SIMs can hijack smartphones, steal files, and lock them onto 2G
Researchers have found that compromised or malicious SIM cards can issue commands to some smartphones and cellular-connected devices, allowing attackers…
Ransomware gangs don’t need control system access to disrupt industrial production
Disrupting IT systems that support industrial environments can be enough to interrupt production, even when ransomware operators do not gain direct access…
Locking your ssh-agent exposed local-only keys until OpenSSH 10.5
Lock your ssh-agent and it should sit there refusing to sign anything until you unlock it. In OpenSSH 10.4, locking it also switched off the check that…
GPT-5.6-Cyber refuses security researchers’ requests far less often
GPT-5.6-Cyber is a new OpenAI model built on GPT-5.6 Sol, trained to find zero-day vulnerabilities and build exploit chains, with fewer refusals on…
Who will be the Stanislav Petrov in your organization?
The recent news coverage of “rogue AI” systems hacking innocent companies reminded me of one of the world’s most unsung heroes and genuinely someone who…
An AI tool found 84 flaws in 5G network software and 23 of them still have no fix
Researchers at Nanyang Technological University turned a set of AI agents loose on the software that runs 4G and 5G phone networks, and the agents came…
Previously unseen entry vector used to breach Polish energy plant
The December 29 cyberattack on a Polish combined heat and power (CHP) plant was the first observed case of attackers gaining access to an OT network…