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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 …

Gourab Basu
What happens when AI agent governance is missing at scale

In this interview with Help Net Security, Gourab Basu, Global Head of Engineering at meshIQ, discusses governance in AI agent systems. He argues that instructions written into …

DeepZero
DeepZero: Open-source hunting for vulnerable Windows drivers

DeepZero is an open-source engine that automates the search for exploitable Windows kernel drivers. You point it at a folder of binaries and it parses them, pulls them apart, …

Revolut
What we know about the Revolut data breach so far

Someone impersonating a government agency, using an email address on that agency’s domain, obtained sensitive customer records from Revolut. The bank confirmed the …

lost smartphone
Getting a stranger’s phone kicked off the cellular network costs a few dollars

Researchers at Michigan State University and three partner schools bought a Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 7, copied the identification number printed on the sealed box, and reported …

Amazon
Kevin Mandia joins the Amazon board with 30-plus years in cybersecurity

Amazon elected Kevin Mandia to its Board of Directors on September 8. Mandia founded Mandiant and served as its CEO before Google acquired the firm in September 2022, and he …

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