Category: Help Net Security

Bitwarden advances passkeys and credential risk controls

Bitwarden revealed continued product innovation and ecosystem maturity to advance identity security capabilities for users and enterprises. Bitwarden introduced enterprise credential risk insights and guided remediation through Bitwarden Access Intelligence, expanded passkey interoperability across browsers, devices, and operating systems, and…

LinkedIn wants to make verification a portable trust signal

In this Help Net Security interview, Oscar Rodriguez, VP Trust Product at LinkedIn, discusses how verification is becoming a portable trust signal across the internet. He explains how LinkedIn is extending professional identity beyond its platform to address rising AI-driven…

QR codes are getting colorful, fancy, and dangerous

QR codes have become a routine part of daily life, showing up on emails, posters, menus, invoices, and login screens. Security-savvy users have learned to treat links with caution, but QR codes still carry an assumption of safety. Researchers from…

CISOs flag gaps in third-party risk management

Third-party cyber risk continues to concern security leaders as vendor ecosystems grow, supply chains stretch, and AI plays a larger role in business operations. A recent Panorays survey of U.S. CISOs shows rising third-party incidents and growing regulatory attention, while…

CISO Assistant: Open-source cybersecurity management and GRC

CISO Assistant is an open-source governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) platform designed to help security teams document risks, controls, and framework alignment in a structured system. The community edition is maintained as a self-hosted tool for organizations that want direct…

Scamnetic delivers fraud protection across all payment types

Scamnetic announced a new trajectory for its patented IDeveryone solution, capable of identity-proofing virtually anyone globally during a consumer or business payment. IDeveryone Payment Protection delivers extensive protection across all payment types, including push and digital payments, cryptocurrency, checks, wire…

Firmware scanning time, cost, and where teams run EMBA

Security teams that deal with connected devices often end up running long firmware scans overnight, checking progress in the morning, and trying to explain to colleagues why a single image consumed a workday of compute time. That routine sets the…

Product showcase: Orbot – Tor VPN for iOS

Orbot for iOS is a free, open-source networking tool that routes supported app traffic through the Tor network. Developed by the Guardian Project, it is intended for users who want to reduce tracking and limit network-level monitoring on iPhone and…