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Patch Tuesday
May 2026 Patch Tuesday forecast: AI starts driving security industry changes

Microsoft May 2026 Patch Tuesday is now live: Many fixes, but no zero-days Project Glasswing. This is one of three major security industry changes I’ll cover today. The …

CIS AWS AI workloads
Download: Secure Foundations for AI Workloads on AWS

Center for Internet Security helps organizations deploy AI and high-performance compute environments from a trusted, hardened operating system baseline. CIS Hardened Images …

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Spotting third-party cyber risk before attackers do

In this Help Net Security video, Jeffrey Wheatman, SVP and Cyber Strategist at Black Kite, discusses how organizations can identify and manage third-party cyber exposures …

cybersecurity week in review
Week in review: High-severity LPE vulnerability in the Linux kernel, cPanel 0-day exploited for months

Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, articles, interviews and videos: The AI criminal mastermind is already hiring on gig platforms Labor-hire …

Download: Automating Pentest Delivery Guide

Pentesting remains one of the most effective ways to identify real-world weaknesses, but the method for delivering results hasn’t evolved. Manual workflows involving static …

identity
Identity is the control plane for distributed infrastructure

Teleport CEO Ev Kontsevoy makes the case that distributed infrastructure, across cloud, Kubernetes, databases, and servers, can’t be secured by layering more tools on …

identity
Identity discovery: The overlooked lever in strategic risk reduction

If you ask a CISO what keeps them up at night, the answer usually isn’t “lack of tools.” It’s uncertainty. Uncertainty about what they don’t see. Uncertainty about how far an …

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Your IAM was built for humans, AI agents don’t care

Identity and access management was built for a simpler world. One where the hardest problem was a human logging in, and where “Who are you?” was sufficient to …

cybersecurity week in review
Week in review: Claude Mythos finds 271 Firefox flaws, Vercel breach

Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, articles, interviews and videos: SmokedMeat: Open-source tool shows what attackers do inside CI/CD pipelines …

North Korean
How to spot a North Korean fake in a job interview

North Korean operatives are getting hired at companies by passing job interviews using fake identities and AI tools. In this Help Net Security video, Adrian Cheek, a senior …

cybersecurity week in review
Week in review: Acrobat Reader flaw exploited, Claude Mythos offensive capabilities and limits

Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, articles, interviews and videos: Bringing governance and visibility to machine and AI identities In this Help …

EU
What the EU AI Act requires for AI agent logging

The EU AI Act is 144 pages long. The logging requirements that matter for AI agent developers sit across four articles that keep referencing each other. Here’s what they say, …

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