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cybersecurity budgets
A flat cybersecurity budget doesn’t have to mean weaker coverage

Cheri Hotman, Managing Partner of Hotman Group, works as a vCISO and vGRC leader. In this Help Net Security video, she talks about holding coverage steady when the CFO asks …

AWS
AWS’s new sign-up gives accounts spend caps, email invites, and agent-set permissions

New AWS customers can now sign up with a Google, GitHub, or Apple login, start with $100 in Free Tier credits, and build inside a “project” where AWS and coding …

Gnome
GNOME 51 adds passkey logins, offline maps and drawn PDF signatures

GNOME 51, the new version of the Linux desktop, came out on September 16 under the codename A Coruña. The release adds offline maps and live transit information to Maps, new …

open source
AI is adding to the review load on open-source projects, many of them thinly funded

AI coding tools are making open source software harder to maintain and secure, according to six authors writing for the Association for Computing Machinery’s Technology …

weapon
The world must establish red lines for autonomous AI weapons

AI is transforming warfare and international conflict. Autonomous weapon systems pose a genuine threat to civilians. The war in Ukraine has become a proving ground for weapons …

Parallels
Parallels Desktop flaw hands any local user root on a Mac (CVE-2026-90894)

A newly disclosed vulnerability in Parallels Desktop, tracked as CVE-2026-90894 and dubbed “ParaShells,” can allow any local user on a Mac to gain root privileges …

AI EU
Self-improving AI should slow down, von der Leyen tells EU lawmakers

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen wants frontier AI development slowed, and said on Wednesday that she will invite the leading AI labs to discuss how the EU …

Help Net Security
Cohesity adds recovery capabilities for AI agents and the data they manage

Cohesity has introduced Cohesity Agent Resilience. This new Cohesity Data Cloud capability will discover, protect, and recover the infrastructure behind enterprise AI agents. …

Help Net Security
Rubrik MCP gives AI agents controlled access to security intelligence

Rubrik has announced Rubrik MCP (Model Context Protocol), giving an organization’s AI agents a secure, programmable path to Rubrik’s data, identity, and application …

data breach
CenterPoint Energy confirms data breach following claims on hacking forum

CenterPoint Energy disclosed that an unauthorized third party got into customer data through one of its external systems, after online claims by a hacker that millions of …

Help Net Security
Nozomi Compass helps industrial teams manage OT assets and vulnerabilities

Nozomi Networks announced Nozomi Compass, an OT asset and service management platform designed to help organizations manage industrial assets, vulnerabilities, and exposures. …

Help Net Security
Citrix adds AI-powered browser activity analysis to SecurAccess

Citrix has announced Citrix Session Insights, a new AI-powered capability for Citrix SecurAccess with Chrome Enterprise that helps organizations capture, analyze and …

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