Eino has introduced a new class of solution for enterprises known as agentic network observability. Designed for enterprises with multiple network technologies and mission-critical use cases, Eino’s agentic solution uses a 3D digital twin approach of the physical environment to…
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Virtue AI PolicyGuard turns AI policies into enforceable runtime guardrails
Virtue AI has announced PolicyGuard, a system that enables enterprises to define, edit, and enforce custom AI runtime protection guardrails across models, agents, and applications. Most organizations have “AI acceptable use policies.” When they need to enforce those policies, however,…
Fedora Linux 44 ships with GNOME 50 and KDE Plasma 6.6
The Fedora Project released Fedora Linux 44, delivering updated desktop environments, revised installer behavior, and several lower-level system changes across its editions and spins. The release covers the project’s flagship editions, including Workstation, KDE Plasma Desktop, Cloud, Server, CoreOS, and…
The Exchange Online security controls organizations keep getting wrong
In this Help Net Security interview, Scott Schnoll, Microsoft MVP for Exchange, breaks down the Shared Responsibility Model, where Microsoft secures the cloud while organizations must protect their own data, identities, and configurations. The discussion covers default settings worth changing…
AI prompt confidentiality and false citations worry researchers
Academic researchers using commercial AI tools for literature review and idea generation are sending unpublished research questions, draft hypotheses, and proprietary domain knowledge into systems whose data handling they do not understand. A think-aloud study of 15 researchers documents the…
Product showcase: SimpleX Chat removes user identifiers from messaging
SimpleX Chat is a free, private, open-source messenger that uses encryption and does not require user identifiers. It is available on mobile and desktop platforms, including iOS, Android, Windows, macOS, and Linux. After downloading the app, the user creates a…
Identity discovery: The overlooked lever in strategic risk reduction
If you ask a CISO what keeps them up at night, the answer usually isn’t “lack of tools.” It’s uncertainty. Uncertainty about what they don’t see. Uncertainty about how far an attacker could move once inside. Uncertainty about whether identity…
FIDO Alliance wants to keep AI agents from going rogue on online payments
AI agents are beginning to shop, log in, and complete tasks with little direct input. That shift is pushing the security industry to rethink how trust works when actions are carried out on a user’s behalf. The FIDO Alliance has…
Cequence Agent Personas bring granular control and governance to enterprise AI agents
Cequence Security has announced the general availability of Agent Personas in Cequence AI Gateway. These capabilities give enterprises granular, infrastructure-level control over what AI agents can do, down to individual tool calls, closing a critical privilege gap that identity alone…
Alleged Chinese hacker extradited to US over cyberattacks targeting COVID-19 research
Chinese national Xu Zewei was extradited from Italy to the United States to face charges tied to an alleged cyber espionage campaign that breached thousands of computers worldwide. Xu is charged alongside Zhang Yu, who remains at large. According to…
Sevii unveils Cyber Swarm Defense Mode to stop AI-driven attacks at scale
Sevii has unveiled a new capability designed to stop high-volume, AI-powered cyberattacks at machine speed and scale, without the burden of unpredictable AI token costs. Sevii’s Cyber Swarm Defense Mode (CSD) addresses a critical gap created by AI, namely the…
ShinyHunters claims it stole 1.4 million records from Udemy
The ShinyHunters group claims it has breached the Udemy, one of the world’s largest online learning platforms. According to Have I Been Pwned, the leaked dataset contained 1.4 million unique email addresses of customers and instructors, along with names, physical…
Police arrest 10 suspected members of Black Axe cybercrime gang
A coordinated police operation in Switzerland has targeted suspected members of the Black Axe criminal network. On 28 April 2026, authorities carried out house searches across several Swiss cantons, leading to 10 arrests, including the Black Axe ‘Regional Head’ for…
TLS Connect gives SMBs a right-sized automated tool to manage TLS certificates
GMO GlobalSign today launched TLS Connect, a Certificate Lifecycle Management (CLM) tool designed specifically for SMBs. TLS Connect automates public trust TLS certificate deployment and renewal, allowing SMBs to strengthen security, maintain regulatory compliance and reduce business risk. The introduction…
Aptori expands its platform with autonomous offensive testing to reduce security bottlenecks
Aptori has expanded its Runtime-Driven Validation Platform with autonomous offensive testing capabilities to address the growing gap between code output and security team capacity. By moving beyond passive scanning to active validation, the platform helps organizations identify, validate, and fix…
Your IAM was built for humans, AI agents don’t care
Identity and access management was built for a simpler world. One where the hardest problem was a human logging in, and where “Who are you?” was sufficient to decide what someone could do. That model served enterprises well for decades.…
25 open-source cybersecurity tools that don’t care about your budget
Regardless of the operating system you use, managing secrets, apps, cloud, compliance, and security operations can be overwhelming. The free, open-source tools presented in this article can help you detect threats, increase visibility, enforce controls, and investigate and respond to…
The AI criminal mastermind is already hiring on gig platforms
Labor-hire platforms let anyone with a credit card post a task and pay a stranger to complete it. The RentAHuman platform extends that model to AI agents through a Model Context Protocol server, allowing an agent to post gigs directly.…
Product showcase: LuLu reveals unauthorized outbound connections from Mac apps
LuLu is a free, open-source firewall for macOS that lets you control which apps are allowed to send data from your computer. macOS includes a built-in firewall, but it mainly handles incoming connections. LuLu also monitors outgoing traffic. Installing and…
Week in review: Claude Mythos finds 271 Firefox flaws, Vercel breach
Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, articles, interviews and videos: SmokedMeat: Open-source tool shows what attackers do inside CI/CD pipelines Boost Security has released SmokedMeat, an open-source framework that runs attack chains against CI/CD infrastructure…