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EmDash
Cloudflare’s EmDash 1.0 makes sandboxed plugins ask for access first

Cloudflare released EmDash 1.0, a free, open source content management system that locks each sandboxed plugin in its own isolated runtime. A plugin starts with access to its …

Chris Latimer
If you do one security check this quarter, make it agent memory

In this interview with Help Net Security, Chris Latimer, CEO of Vectorize, talks about the security risks hiding in AI agent memory. He found coding agents storing API keys, …

Authorizer
Authorizer: Open-source authentication and authorization for your apps

Authorizer is an open-source server for sign-in and access control in web and mobile apps. Teams run it on their own infrastructure and keep user accounts in a database they …

Ariel Assaraf
Stop watching what AI agents say and start watching what they do

In this interview with Help Net Security, Ariel Assaraf, CEO of Coralogix, explains why a system prompt can describe a boundary for an AI agent but cannot enforce one. Assaraf …

Kelly Herrell
What to do first when you get 90 days to secure AI agent data

In this interview with Help Net Security, Kelly Herrell, CEO at Nol8, explains where AI agents create exposure inside organizations. The first thing to examine is the data …

bots
Somewhere in your traffic logs, a bot is doing more than looking

Akamai has watched verified AI crawlers, ChatGPT among them, move from reading web pages to sending high-frequency POST requests. In a 30-day analysis of its global customers, …

EU
European AI spending is on track to reach nearly $470 billion by 2030

European organizations will spend nearly $470 billion on AI in 2030, IDC forecasts, with spending growing at a compound annual rate of 35% from 2025. At that rate, the market …

Windows
The TASK#STOMP Windows backdoor takes Wi-Fi passwords, screenshots, and business files

Researchers have taken apart TASK#STOMP, a Windows backdoor that searches a victim’s drives for business documents, uploads them to attacker servers, and then stays put …

Guilherme Joventino
Know what was tested before your SAP ECC migration goes live

In this Help Net Security interview, Guilherme Joventino, COO of MIGNOW, explains why some large companies plan to stay on ECC past the 2027 deadline and pay SAP for extended …

Frederic Bull
The AI security question leaders should be asking instead

In this Help Net Security interview, Frederic Bull, Security Officer at Gremlin, talks about what AI means for security teams. The conversation covers why asking what data a …

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 …

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 …

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