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David Fuhr
Why Active Directory weaknesses stay open for years in teams with one or two admins

David Fuhr, CTO at intcube, talks about a security cohort for public administration, where 27 municipalities hardened Windows Server and Active Directory together over 12 …

person
The cyber talent shortage? Job postings just hit a four-year low

US employers posted 235,786 cybersecurity jobs from January through September 2026. That is the lowest total for those months in the four years that staffing and workforce …

Michael Scott
Immuta CISO predicts critical AI incidents at major enterprises within 18 months

In this Help Net Security interview, Michael Scott, CISO at Immuta, talks about how organizations should handle permissions for AI agents. He argues agents should be treated …

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, …

npm
npm Trusted Publishing flaw exposed 1,500+ npm packages to takeover

Bloom Security researchers found that npm’s Trusted Publishing feature let an attacker push new versions of someone else’s package without stealing a credential. The attacker …

Akshay Joshi
Geopolitics and the cyber resilience gap belong in your threat model

In this Help Net Security interview, Akshay Joshi, Head of the Centre for Cybersecurity at the World Economic Forum, talks about how AI, geopolitics and industrialized fraud …

AWS Strands
Strands Box: Open-source sandbox for AI agents

AWS released Strands Box, an open source sandbox for AI agents that pairs operating-system isolation with rules that can weigh what an agent has already done before letting it …

Christiaan Beek
What the BPFDoor backdoor tells us about attacks on the network edge

A backdoor that makes no noise is hard to catch, and that’s the point of BPFDoor. The Linux malware waits for a special “magic packet” before it acts. In …

Europe
Thousands of wind and solar park systems sit exposed on the internet across Europe

Modat and NCSC-NL, the Dutch government’s cybersecurity center, found 8,547 internet-facing systems at wind farms and solar parks in 35 countries in and around the EU …

MATCHBOIL
What is MATCHBOIL? The Russia-aligned malware that installs a spying backdoor

ESET researchers traced almost two years of changes to MATCHBOIL, a downloader that the Russia-aligned group UAC-0099 uses to plant a second program on Windows machines in …

Ivan Milenkovic
Pricing your bad days and how to build an economic model for security decisions

Ivan Milenkovic, VP Risk Technology EMEA at Qualys, explains how security leaders can build an economic model that puts money behind their decisions. He suggests starting with …

CCTV
Who watches the AI watching your street?

Yusaku Fujii, a professor at Gunma University in Japan, has designed audits and penalties to stop operators from misusing AI that analyzes street camera footage. His system …

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