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SolarWinds Avior pairs IT automation with human approval and audit trails

SolarWinds has announced the launch of Avior, a standalone, goal-oriented agentic AI system purpose-built for mission-critical IT environments. Built on the SolarWinds …

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Chainguard Harness uses frontier AI to test running applications for vulnerabilities

Chainguard has announced Chainguard Harness, a new cyber harness that uses frontier AI models like Anthropic’s Claude Mythos 5.1 to find and fix exploitable …

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Scytale MCP gives AI tools scoped, read-only access to compliance data

Scytale has announced the launch of Scytale MCP, a Model Context Protocol server that connects a customer’s AI tools directly to their compliance program. With Scytale …

GitHub
GitHub adopts cheaper AI model to catch secrets developers leave in code

GitHub has trained a credential classifier to improve generic secret detection and reduce false alerts. The new pipeline cut median post-push scan execution time by 86% and …

Ivanti
Attackers chained three Ivanti zero-days to gain root on fully patched VPN appliances

A threat actor has been using an exploit chain combining three vulnerabilities in Ivanti’s Connect Secure (ICS) appliances to breach organizations, collect credentials, …

espionage
OpenAI engineer arrested for allegedly trying to eavesdrop on executive meetings

A recording device wrapped in toilet paper and plugged into the back of a television in an executive conference room at OpenAI’s San Francisco office has led to the arrest of …

patch tuesday
Microsoft fixes exploited Mark of the Web bypass vulnerability (CVE-2026-96951)

In another record-breaking Patch Tuesday, Microsoft has squashed over 1,400 security bugs, including a Mark of the Web bypass vulnerability (CVE-2026-96951) exploited by …

Kunal Modasiya
Patching and preventing issues: What are the lessons you can learn?

In this Help Net Security interview, Kunal Modasiya, Senior VP & GM at Qualys, talks about why patching is still hard to get right. He explains how business pressure, …

Meshery
Meshery: Open-source cloud-native manager for Kubernetes

Meshery is an open-source tool for designing, deploying and managing Kubernetes infrastructure, built by Layer5 and its community and hosted as a Cloud Native Computing …

CISO
Most companies count AI agents as insiders, and CISOs worry about their own liability

Software that works on an employee’s behalf is now turning up in incident reports. At 95% of the companies in a Trellix survey of 600 CISOs, an AI agent or other autonomous …

Chrome Vulnerability Rewards Program
Google quadruples Chrome bug bounty base pay, offers up to $20,000 for sandbox escapes

Google is updating its Chrome Vulnerability Rewards Program (Chrome VRP), increasing payments for memory corruption vulnerabilities and expanding rewards for other security …

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Trellix Wise for Private Cloud delivers auditable AI investigations for security teams

Trellix has announced Trellix Wise for Private Cloud, an on-premises, federated AI core for agentic security operations. The solution extends a security fabric across an …

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