A photo of someone’s face may be all an attacker needs to create a convincing synthetic voice. A new study from Australia’s national science agency explores this possibility, testing how well deepfake detectors perform against FOICE (Face-to-Voice), an attack attack…
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Hottest cybersecurity open-source tools of the month: October 2025
This month’s roundup features exceptional open-source cybersecurity tools that are gaining attention for strengthening security across various environments. Chekov: Open-source static code analysis tool Checkov is an open-source tool designed to help teams secure their cloud infrastructure and code. At…
Email breaches are the silent killers of business growth
78% of organizations were hit by an email breach in the past 12 months, according to the Email Security Breach Report 2025 by Barracuda. Phishing, impersonation, and account takeover continue to drive incidents that often lead to ransomware and data…
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 16 puts AI in the operating system
SUSE has released SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 16, calling it AI-ready and built for long-term use. The release marks the first major update in the Enterprise Server line in more than five years and signals a new direction for…
ZEST Security launches free AI-based remediation risk assessment for security teams
ZEST Security announced its free remediation risk assessment. The industry is overflowing with tools to identify vulnerabilities, but these tools all fail to provide context that has real operational impact. ZEST is bridging that gap by offering curated remediation pathways…
OpenAI’s gpt-oss-safeguard enables developers to build safer AI
OpenAI is releasing a research preview of gpt-oss-safeguard, a set of open-weight reasoning models for safety classification. The models come in two sizes: gpt-oss-safeguard-120b and gpt-oss-safeguard-20b. Both are fine-tuned versions of the gpt-oss open models and available under the Apache…
Sanctions won’t stop cyberattacks, but they can still “bite”
Sanctions are one of the tools Western governments use when they want to hit back at state-sponsored cyber threat actors. But do they actually work? That’s the question a group of current and former cybersecurity officials, analysts, and researchers tackled…
Commvault introduces Data Rooms to securely connect backup data with AI platforms
Commvault introduced Data Rooms, a secure environment that enables enterprises to safely connect their trusted backup data to the AI platforms they rely on, or to their own AI initiatives, such as internal data lakes. By combining governed, self-service access…
Fortra DSPM helps organizations protect sensitive data across hybrid cloud
Fortra announced the launch of its new Data Security Posture Management (DSPM) solution to enable organizations to discover, classify, and protect sensitive data across their hybrid cloud. Fortra DSPM strengthens the company’s security portfolio by helping enterprises maintain visibility and…
Rapid7 strengthens security with AI-powered risk and vulnerability insights
Rapid7 announced AI-generated risk intelligence as part of the Rapid7 Command Platform. Delivered through Remediation Hub, the new capability accelerates remediation by giving security teams a contextual, and actionable view of each exposure, transforming vulnerability data into risk intelligence informed…
Sweet Security brings Runtime CNAPP visibility and protection to Windows environments
Sweet Security announced an extension of its Runtime CNAPP sensor to include Windows environments. With this launch, organizations can secure Windows workloads and applications in the cloud. The new capability brings the same visibility, real-time detection, risk prioritization, and automated…
Trellix unveils Helix integration with Hyperautomation to streamline SOC operations
Trellix announced Trellix Helix is now integrated with Trellix Hyperautomation, a no-code, drag-and-drop workflow builder that automates security processes. Trellix Helix provides customers with AI-powered context across all threat vectors and security tools in their environment for increased visibility, faster…
Acronis Cyber Protect Local brings unified cyber protection to cloud-restricted environments
Acronis announced the launch of Acronis Cyber Protect Local, a solution that delivers natively integrated cyber resilience for on-premises, sovereign private cloud, and air-gapped IT and OT environments. Designed for organizations where cloud deployment is not an option, the solution…
New Zscaler ZDX features strengthen zero trust and streamline performance monitoring
Zscaler unveiled new Zscaler Digital Experience (ZDX) innovations that help enterprises monitor and fix performance issues faster, achieving real-time insights across the internet and endpoint, cutting issue detection by 98%, and resolving issues in minutes to strengthen SLAs and minimize…
Python Foundation rejects US government grant earmarked for security improvements
The Python Software Foundation (PSF) has rejected a $1.5 million government grant due to restrictive conditions that would force the foundation to betray its mission and its community, the programming non-profit announced on Monday. “In January 2025, the PSF submitted…
Socure enhances RiskOS AI Suite with AI agents to transform identity, compliance, and risk decisioning
Socure unveiled an expanded RiskOS AI Suite of solutions featuring six breakthrough AI agents and assistants that substantially elevate the speed, intelligence, and precision of enterprise identity, compliance, and authentication operations. The investments Socure is making in AI position RiskOS…
Arctera InfoScale gains AI capabilities to identify and contain ransomware attacks
Arctera announced new AI-powered features in Arctera InfoScale that enable organizations to identify and respond to ransomware indicators in real time. By learning behavioral patterns across applications, storage and infrastructure, Arctera InfoScale is now able to instantly recognize the traits…
Privado.ai introduces AI agents to automate privacy assessments and real-time data mapping
Privado.ai released several new capabilities to automate privacy assessments and data maps for privacy teams amid growing privacy enforcement for non-compliant personal data sharing. Leveraging AI agents to reason and take action, Privado.ai’s new Agentic Assessment solution populates 100% of…
Palo Alto Networks launches Prisma AIRS 2.0 to deliver end-to-end security across the AI lifecycle
Palo Alto Networks announced Prisma AIRS 2.0, a major platform upgrade that completes the native integration of recently acquired Protect AI to deliver a comprehensive AI security platform. This release directly confronts a critical enterprise challenge: 78% of organizations are…
Trulioo expands identity platform to strengthen fraud prevention and streamline compliance
Trulioo announced product enhancements designed to build trust at every stage of the digital journey, from initial verification and payment processing to ongoing compliance monitoring and risk assessment. The latest innovations, delivered across the Trulioo identity platform, provide transparency, fraud…