Phishing sites keep rising, and security teams are searching for ways to sort suspicious pages at speed. A recent study explores whether small language models (SLMs) can scan raw HTML to catch these threats. The work reviews a range of…
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DeepTeam: Open-source LLM red teaming framework
Security teams are pushing large language models into products faster than they can test them, which makes any new red teaming method worth paying attention to. DeepTeam is an open-source framework built to probe these systems before they reach users,…
Black Friday 2025 for InfoSec: How to spot real value and avoid the noise
Your inbox is probably drowning in Black Friday emails right now. Another “limited time offer” that’ll reappear next month, countdown timer creating artificial urgency. You’re right to be skeptical — most of it is noise. But buried beneath the marketing…
How board members think about cyber risk and what CISOs should tell them
In this Help Net Security video, Jonathan Trull, EVP & CISO at Qualys, discusses which cybersecurity metrics matter most to a board of directors. Drawing on more than two decades in the field, he explains how boards think about their…
Popular code formatting sites are exposing credentials and other secrets
Widely used code formatting sites JSONFormatter and CodeBeautify are exposing sensitive credentials, API keys, private keys, configuration files and other secrets, watchTowr researchers discovered. The findings JSONFormatter and CodeBeautify are free, web-based tools/services used by developers to make messy code…
Tor Project is rolling out Counter Galois Onion encryption
People who rely on Tor expect their traffic to move through the network without giving away who they are. That trust depends on the strength of the encryption that protects each hop. Tor developers are preparing a major upgrade called…
Fake “Windows Update” screens fuels new wave of ClickFix attacks
A convincing (but fake) “Windows Update” screen can be the perfect lure for tricking users into infecting their computers with malware. Add a multi-stage delivery chain with some offbeat techniques, and infostealer operators have everything they need to slip past…
Microsoft cracks down on malicious meeting invites
Phishing is shifting into places people rarely check. Meeting invites that plant themselves on calendars can survive long after the malicious email is gone. That leaves a quiet opening for attackers. Microsoft has updated Defender for Office 365 so that…
How an AI meltdown could reset enterprise expectations
In this Help Net Security interview, Graham McMillan, CTO at Redgate Software, discusses AI, security, and the future of enterprise oversight. He explains why past incidents haven’t pushed the industry to mature. McMillan also outlines the structural shifts he expects…
Aircraft cabin IoT leaves vendor and passenger data exposed
The expansion of IoT devices in shared, multi-vendor environments, such as aircraft cabins, has created tension between the benefits of data collaboration and the risks to passenger privacy, vendor intellectual property, and regulatory compliance. A new study finds that even…
The breaches everyone gets hit by (and how to stop them)
Headlines scream about zero-days and nation-state attacks, but the reality is far less glamorous. Ross Haleliuk, from Venture in Security talks about the concept of humans being wired to overweight rare, dramatic events and underweight the everyday risks that quietly…
Supply chain sprawl is rewriting security priorities
Organizations depend on long chains of vendors, but many cybersecurity professionals say these relationships create gaps they cannot see or control. A new ISC2 survey of more than 1,000 cybersecurity professionals shows that supply chain risk sits near the top…
Cybersecurity jobs available right now: November 25, 2025
Associate Director, Cybersecurity Specialist HSBC | India | Remote – View job details As an Associate Director, Cybersecurity Specialist, you will lead the Cyber Professional Testing Practice, setting direction, mentoring teams, and planning resources to support organisation-wide adoption. You will…
Trend Vision One AI Security Package delivers proactive protection for AI environments
Trend Micro will launch the Trend Vision One AI Security Package in December. The package delivers centralized exposure management with analytics for AI-driven environments. It protects the AI application stack from model development to runtime and extends security across every…
Black Friday 2025 cybersecurity deals to explore
Black Friday 2025 is shaping up to be a good moment for anyone thinking about tightening their cybersecurity. A few solid deals are popping up that make it easier to improve protection for systems and data without stretching your budget.…
cnspec: Open-source, cloud-native security and policy project
cnspec is an open source tool that helps when you are trying to keep a sprawling setup of clouds, containers, APIs and endpoints under control. It checks security and compliance across all of it, which makes it easier to see…
Quantum encryption is pushing satellite hardware to its limits
In this Help Net Security interview, Colonel Ludovic Monnerat, Commander Space Command, Swiss Armed Forces, discusses how securing space assets is advancing in response to emerging quantum threats. He explains why satellite systems must move beyond traditional cryptography to remain…
The privacy tension driving the medical data shift nobody wants to talk about
Most people assume their medical data sits in quiet storage, protected by familiar rules. That belief gives a sense of safety, but new research argues that the world around healthcare data has changed faster than the policies meant to guide…
What happens when vulnerability scores fall apart?
Security leaders depend on vulnerability data to guide decisions, but the system supplying that data is struggling. An analysis from Sonatype shows that core vulnerability indexes no longer deliver the consistency or speed needed for the current software environment. A…
Email blind spots are back to bite security teams
The threat landscape is forcing CISOs to rethink what they consider normal. The latest Cybersecurity Report 2026 by Hornetsecurity, based on analysis of more than 70 billion emails and broad threat telemetry, shows attackers adopting automation, AI driven social engineering,…