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Eye
Safari blocks trackers that turn your email into a tracking ID

Apple’s new anti-tracking protections in Safari and WebKit, the open-source web engine used by Safari, block connections to identity resolution services that turn email …

ECG
Privacy-preserving AI can protect your heart data, the bill is the problem

A heart monitor used to be a box beside a hospital bed. Electrodes fed a cable, the cable fed a screen, and a nurse watched the screen. The threat model fit on a sticky note. …

DevGuard
DevGuard: Open-source vulnerability management for the software supply chain

DevGuard is a free, open source vulnerability management platform that collects a software project’s security findings in one place, ranks them by risk, and tracks them. …

GitGuardian securing credential layer
Why security tools lose sight of the credential

Security teams have tools for code, endpoints, cloud infrastructure, identity, and secrets management. Credentials cut across all of them. A developer finds an AWS key in a …

red team
Bringing AI into the SOC means watching for shadow AI and loose permissions

In this Help Net Security video, Vince Stoffer, Field CTO at Corelight, talks about how AI is changing work in the SOC and how attackers are using the same tools. He explains …

PHP
A critical PHP security release is coming today, so get ready to update!

UPDATE: PHP2Shell: Critical PHP vulnerabilities patched, update now! The PHP security team has announced an urgent security release for Wednesday, 21 October 2026 at 14:00 …

TorchTPU
Google open-sourced TorchTPU, so PyTorch on TPUs just got a lot easier

Google released TorchTPU as open source, giving PyTorch developers a native way to run models on the company’s Tensor Processing Units. Google also announced TPU support in …

Google Chrome
Chrome flags malicious commands that scammers pass off as fixes

Google is updating Chrome’s Enhanced Protection mode to detect scam websites and warn users when a page tricks them into copying a malicious command. The company introduced …

supply chain
AOMEI Backupper servers hijacked for minutes at a time to push backdoor

An unknown number of AOMEI Backupper users had their computers infected with a backdoor through an unusually stealthy supply chain attack, security researchers discovered. …

vulnerability
Incomplete security patches show hackers where to look next

Security patches are turning into roadmaps for attackers, with a growing share of fixes later found incomplete or open to bypass. Oren Yomtov, a security researcher at Terra …

Help Net Security
Abstract links automated response actions directly to SIEM detection rules

Abstract has announced new AI SOC capabilities in its agentic SIEM: investigation, hunt, and triage powered by a combination of Abstract’s own trained and tuned models …

Help Net Security
ThreatModeler NexusAI tracks architectural changes and proposes security updates

ThreatModeler has announced the launch of NexusAI, its new AI-powered threat modeling partner within the ThreatModeler Nexus platform. NexusAI helps enterprises automate more …

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