Albireo Energy launched Private Cloud Services (PCS), a secure, fully managed cloud service designed to host and protect Building Automation System (BAS) and Energy Power Management Systems (EPMS) data without the capital expense, complexity, or risk of traditional on-premise servers.…
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Zumigo enhances fraud prevention with low-code tools and passwordless authentication
Zumigo has upgraded its solutions designed to help businesses fortify their defenses against rising sophisticated consumer fraud with an identity-first security approach. Recognizing that consumer and user access points are often exploited for fraud and attacks, Zumigo has evolved its…
Jumio introduces selfie.DONE to simplify digital identity verification
Jumio announced the launch of selfie.DONE, a new solution that delivers on the company’s vision for true reusable identity. selfie.DONE empowers trusted users to be instantly recognized and reverified with just a selfie, eliminating the need to rescan their ID…
eBook: A quarter century of Active Directory
Active Directory (AD) remains the backbone of enterprise identity and a prime target for attackers. Explore its 25-year history, evolving risks, and how organizations can modernize password security. This eBook shows why AD defenses must evolve and how to stop…
Ransomware, extortion groups adapt as payment rates reach historic lows
Ransomware groups are facing an economic downturn of their own: In Q3 2025, only 23 percent of victims paid a ransom, and for data theft incidents that involved no encryption, the payment rate dropped to just 19 percent, according to…
72 states sign first global UN Convention against Cybercrime
The world’s first global convention to prevent and respond to cybercrime opened for signature today in Hanoi, Vietnam, and will remain open at United Nations Headquarters in New York until 31 December 2026. Adopted by the UN General Assembly in…
Can your earbuds recognize you? Researchers are working on it
Biometric authentication has moved from fingerprints to voices to facial scans, but a team of researchers believes the next step could be inside the ear. New research explores how the ear canal’s unique acoustic properties can be used to verify…
Dependency-Track: Open-source component analysis platform
Software is a patchwork of third-party components, and keeping tabs on what’s running under the hood has become a challenge. The open-source platform Dependency-Track tackles that problem head-on. Rather than treating software composition as a one-time scan, it continuously monitors…
AI writes code like a junior dev, and security is feeling it
The industry is entering a phase where code is being deployed faster than it can be secured, according to OX Security. Findings from the Army of Juniors: The AI Code Security Crisis report show that AI-generated code often appears clean…
DDoS, data theft, and malware are storming the gaming industry
When the pandemic kept people at home in 2020, millions turned to games for an escape. The surge turned every console, PC, and phone into part of a vast online network. More players meant more logins, payments, and personal data.…
Product showcase: Neo Network Utility makes network checks simple
Want to see if a remote server is still alive, or trace the path your data takes across the internet? Network Utility had you covered, until Apple removed it. Network Utility was the go-to macOS app for quick network checks.…
Week in review: Actively exploited Windows SMB flaw, trusted OAuth apps turned into cloud backdoors
Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, articles, interviews and videos: Most AI privacy research looks the wrong way Most research on LLM privacy has focused on the wrong problem, according to a new paper by…
Microsoft releases urgent fix for actively exploited WSUS vulnerability (CVE-2025-59287)
Microsoft has released an out-of-band security update that “comprehensively” addresses CVE-2025-59287, a remote code execution vulnerability in the Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) that is reportedly being exploited in the wild. About CVE-2025-59287 WSUS is a tool that helps organizations…
Microsoft blocks risky file previews in Windows File Explorer
Along with fixing many code-based vulnerabilities, the October 2025 Windows updates also change how File Explorer handles files downloaded from the internet. The change affects the file management tool’s Preview Pane, which lets users see the contents of a file…
What Microsoft’s 2025 report reveals about the new rules of engagement in cyberdefense
Adversaries are using AI to sharpen attacks, automate operations, and challenge long-standing defenses, according to a new Microsoft report. Researchers describe a year in which criminal and state-backed actors blurred the lines between cybercrime, espionage, and disruption, targeting public and…
Building trust in AI: How to keep humans in control of cybersecurity
In this Help Net Security video, Rekha Shenoy, CEO at BackBox, takes a look at AI in cybersecurity, separating hype from reality. She explains why AI’s true value lies not in replacing human expertise but in strengthening it. Shenoy outlines…
Smart helmet tech points to the future of fighting audio deepfakes
Voice cloning has become fast, cheap, and convincing. With only a few minutes of recorded speech, generative models can recreate a person’s voice with matching tone, rhythm, and accent. To address that risk, a research team at Texas Tech University…
When AI writes code, humans clean up the mess
AI coding tools are reshaping how software is written, tested, and secured. They promise speed, but that speed comes with a price. A new report from Aikido Security shows that most organizations now use AI to write production code, and…
New infosec products of the week: October 24, 2025
Here’s a look at the most interesting products from the past week, featuring releases from Axoflow, Elastic, Illumio, Keycard, Netscout and Rubrik. Axoflow Security Data Layer unifies data pipeline, storage, and analytics for security team Axoflow has launched its Security…
Researchers expose large-scale YouTube malware distribution network
Check Point researchers have uncovered, mapped and helped set back a stealthy, large-scale malware distribution operation on YouTube they dubbed the “YouTube Ghost Network.” The network published more than 3,000 videos across compromised or fake channels, luring viewers with game…