August 2026

GitHub has flagged npm malware since March 2026. Anyone pulling in a bad PyPI, Maven, RubyGems, NuGet, Go, crates.io, or PHP Composer package has had no such warning, because …

Chainloop is an open source evidence store for the software supply chain. A command line tool runs inside a GitHub Actions, GitLab, Jenkins, or Dagger pipeline, picks up what …

Enpass is a password manager that stores passwords, passkeys, payment cards, identities, secure notes, software licenses, and other sensitive information in encrypted vaults. …

Boards want evidence that security controls and architecture reduce business risk, expressed in terms of resilience, consequence, and decision relevance. Translating technical …

The EU’s fight to regulate AI models entered a new chapter on 2 August 2026, when the European Commission’s AI Office and national authorities began enforcing the …

Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, articles, interviews and videos: Mapping the malware blast radius a single alert won’t show you In this …

Hackers exploited vulnerabilities in Microsoft SharePoint servers belonging to Switzerland’s Federal Office of Information Technology, Systems and Telecommunication (BIT), …

OpenAI has updated GPT-5.6 Sol, the model behind ChatGPT for Plus and Pro subscribers, and pushed a new model, GPT-5.6 Luna, out to everyone using the free tier. The company …

Keepit announced AI Truth Cloud, transforming backup from a compliance requirement into the strategically valuable data asset an organization can hold. As AI agents take on …

July 2026 Patch Tuesday was record-setting in so many ways. The sheer volume of security patches for almost every product in the Microsoft portfolio was the highest ever and, …

In this Help Net Security interview, Edwin Weijdema, Field CTO at Veeam, answers questions on Article 50 of the EU AI Act and what the first year of enforcement might bring. …

Every month for the better part of a year, about 4,800 US internet addresses answered a query in the protocol that fuel tank gauges speak. In June the number was 2,354. The …