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cybersecurity week in review
Week in review: Compromised Zimbra servers, previously patched Citrix NetScaler flaw exploited

Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, articles, interviews and videos: Unpatched Zimbra servers are falling to CVE-2026-73570 attacks At least 274 …

Infosec products of the month
New infosec products of the month: August 2026

Here’s a look at the most interesting products from the past week, featuring releases from A10 Networks, Abnormal AI, F5 Networks, Intezer, Netscout, ScienceLogic, Searchlight …

CTF
The best human hacking team still out-solved the best AI team

Bring an AI agent to a hacking competition and you would expect to find it propping up the teams who were struggling. In the 2026 Global Cyber Skills Benchmark, agents showed …

person
AI vulnerability discovery scores the highest impact of 20 emerging risks

Risk managers, auditors and senior executives at 316 companies spent April and May ranking 20 threats they have not yet felt. AI discovery of cyber vulnerabilities came back …

open-source cybersecurity tools
Hottest cybersecurity open-source tools of the month: August 2026

Presented here is a curated selection of noteworthy open-source cybersecurity solutions that have drawn recognition for their ability to enhance security postures across …

HOL Guard
HOL Guard: Open-source antivirus for AI agents

HOL Guard is a free, open-source tool that sits between an AI assistant and the computer it runs on. When the assistant tries something risky, the tool pauses it and asks you …

Proton AI Paper Trail
Product showcase: AI Paper Trail shows the privacy cost of talking to AI

Proton’s AI Paper Trail is a free tool designed to make the information accumulated across AI conversations easier to see. It analyzes exported ChatGPT or Claude conversation …

ransomware
Ransomware attackers are zeroing in on mid-market companies

Mid-sized companies accounted for 73% of publicly disclosed ransomware and data-extortion incidents with known revenue in North America and Europe between January 2023 and …

AWS
AWS makes it easier to spot firewall rules that have gone quiet

AWS Network Firewall’s rule hit count capability gives security teams visibility into which stateful firewall rules are matching traffic, helping them identify unused or …

access
Nearly half of enterprises have no one leading PQC migration

Enterprises believe they are prepared for the security challenges posed by quantum computing, but gaps in ownership, testing and visibility could complicate their transition …

Infosec products of the week
New infosec products of the week: August 21, 2026

Here’s a look at the most interesting products from the past week, featuring releases from F5 Networks, Intezer, Netscout, and Tufin. NETSCOUT expands Adaptive DDoS Protection …

AWS
AWS limits AI agents’ data access, even when manipulated

AWS has detailed an approach for propagating user authorization context through AI agents, allowing access controls to be enforced by infrastructure and downstream services …

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