Amazon Web Services has announced new and improved security features at its annual AWS re:Inforce cloud security conference. The company has also introduced features aimed at speeding up backup recovery, and has announced the completion of its push to protect…
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Bitdefender acquires Mesh to boost email protection for businesses and MSPs
Bitdefender announced it has agreed to acquire Mesh Security Limited (Mesh), a provider of email security solutions. Through the acquisition, Mesh’s email security technology and capabilities will be integrated into Bitdefender’s extended detection and response (XDR) platform and managed detection…
Cloudflare Log Explorer detects security and performance issues
Cloudflare announced Cloudflare Log Explorer to help give businesses instant access to critical security and performance insights across their IT environments. Now, customers can analyze, investigate, and monitor for security attacks with log line level insights across their entire business–natively…
Chaining two LPEs to get “root”: Most Linux distros vulnerable (CVE-2025-6018, CVE-2025-6019)
Qualys researchers have unearthed two local privilege escalation vulnerabilities (CVE-2025-6018, CVE-2025-6019) that can be exploited in tandem to achieve root access on most Linux distributions “with minimal effort.” About the vulnerabilities (CVE-2025-6018, CVE-2025-6019) CVE-2025-6018 affects the Pluggable Authentication Modules (PAM)…
Jumio Liveness Premium combats deepfakes and injection attacks
Jumio launched Jumio Liveness Premium with advanced deepfake detection, the company’s most advanced biometric liveness detection solution to date. Jumio’s premium solution leverages a patented Jumio technology, combining randomized color sequences and AI-driven analysis to confirm human presence in real…
Kernel-level container insights: Utilizing eBPF with Cilium, Tetragon, and SBOMs for security
As applications become more distributed, traditional monitoring and security tools are failing to keep pace. This article explores how eBPF, when utilized by the graduated CNCF Cilium and its sub-project Tetragon, combined with Software Bills of Materials (SBOMs), can provide…
Kusari Inspector improves supply chain security
Kusari unveiled Kusari Inspector, an AI-based pull request security tool that brings cutting-edge security risk analysis directly into developers’ daily workflows. In Kusari Inspector, Kusari has brought together a powerful combination of industry standards, AI, and dependency graph analysis, to…
Dashlane’s AI model alerts businesses to phishing risks
Dashlane introduced AI phishing alerts, an advancement to the Dashlane Omnix platform that protects enterprises and users against threats targeting user credentials. Trained by Dashlane on both legitimate and phishing sources, the new innovation detects and alerts users to phishing…
35 open-source security tools to power your red team, SOC, and cloud security
This article showcases free, open-source security tools that support your organization’s teams in red teaming, threat hunting, incident response, vulnerability scanning, and cloud security. Autorize: Burp Suite extension for automatic authorization enforcement detection Autorize is an open-source Burp Suite extension…
AI is changing cybersecurity roles, and entry-level jobs are at risk
Will humans remain essential in cybersecurity, or is AI set to take over? According to Wipro, many CISOs are leveraging AI to improve threat detection and response times and to build enhanced incident response capabilities. What’s changing AI systems can…
From cleaners to creepers: The risk of mobile privilege escalation
In this Help Net Security video, Nico Chiaraviglio, Chief Scientist at Zimperium, explores how Android apps can be abused to escalate privileges, giving attackers access to sensitive data and system functions. Drawing on Zimperium’s recent research, he breaks down two…
Employees are using AI where they know they shouldn’t
Despite widespread anticipation about AI’s positive impact on workforce productivity, most employees feel they were overpromised on its potential, according to GoTo. In fact, 62% believe AI has been significantly overhyped. However, this is likely because employees aren’t making the…
Researchers unearth keyloggers on Outlook login pages
Unknown threat actors have compromised internet-accessible Microsoft Exchange Servers of government organizations and companies around the world, and have injected the organizations’ Outlook on the Web (OWA) login page with browser-based keyloggers, Positive Technologies researchers have warned. The keylogging JavaScript…
Aravo Evaluate Engine manages and optimizes third-party risks
Aravo announced new innovations that add significant enhancements to its Evaluate Engine, enabling customers to extend the scale, scope, and range of their third-party risk scoring to meet their organizations risk appetite. The Evaluate Engine is part of Aravo’s Intelligence…
Free AI coding security rules now available on GitHub
Developers are turning to AI coding assistants to save time and speed up their work. But these tools can also introduce security risks if they suggest flawed or unsafe code. To help address that, Secure Code Warrior has released a…
Sumsub Device Intelligence offers protection against identity threats
Sumsub is expanding its Fraud Prevention solution with advanced Device Intelligence, enhanced by the Fingerprint platform. Designed to identify threats before they escalate, Device Intelligence offers real-time insights with accuracy into user integrity by analyzing device behavior and network-level data beyond…
Hackers love events. Why aren’t more CISOs paying attention?
When CISOs think about risk, they usually think about cloud platforms, laptops, and data centers. But live events like conferences, trade shows, product launches, and shareholder meetings bring a different kind of cybersecurity exposure. These events gather people, devices, and…
BigID Vendor AI Assessment reduces third-party AI risk
BigID launched Vendor AI Assessment, a solution designed to help organizations identify, evaluate, and manage the risks introduced by third-party AI usage. As vendors race to embed GenAI, large language models (LLMs), and autonomous agents into their products, organizations are…
Before scaling GenAI, map your LLM usage and risk zones
In this Help Net Security interview, Paolo del Mundo, Director of Application and Cloud Security at The Motley Fool, discusses how organizations can scale their AI usage by implementing guardrails to mitigate GenAI-specific risks like prompt injection, insecure outputs, and…
CISOs brace for a surge in domain-based cyber threats
Cybersecurity threats are growing more complex, and domain-based attacks are at the center of this shift. CSC’s CISO Outlook 2025 report, based on a survey of 300 security leaders, reveals a rising sense of urgency as organizations confront both established…