Mirko Zorz
Scareware ads keep running on Google’s transparency tool, even after they’re reported
A team of NYU and Radboud University researchers spent a year building a tool to find deceptive software ads inside Google’s public ad archive. It works. It also exposed …
Open-source secrets scanning tool Sift hunts credentials in Microsoft 365, Slack, and Jira
Sift is a free, open-source command line tool that searches for passwords, API keys, and other sensitive data across the places a company keeps its work: local disks, Windows …
Askeal, the AI cybersecurity assistant that gives verifiable, expert-backed answers
Askeal takes the opposite approach to omniscient Gen AI: rather than pretending to know everything, it combines AI with community expertise. Vetted vendors, researchers, and …
What your vendor says about PQC tells you if they are ready
In this interview with Help Net Security, Dr. Yaakov Stein, VP CTO of Allot, discusses what post-quantum readiness looks like inside a mobile network. The discussion covers …
What vulnerability prioritization looks like when KEV, EPSS, and CVSS disagree
In this Help Net Security interview, Dr. Joye Purser, Global Field CISO at Cohesity, explains how to rank vulnerabilities when KEV, EPSS, and CVSS point in different …
Halo-record: Open-source audit trails for AI agents
Brian Kuan wrote halo-record, a small Python package that sits inside an AI agent and writes down the moves it makes: tool calls, model calls, data access, approvals. Each …
What 90 days and a small budget can buy in AI agent security
In this interview with Help Net Security, Prasad Tharippala, Field CISO at Versa, explains what organizations miss when they run open-weight models in house. He covers the …
AI will not fix a governance problem in your camera estate
Camera systems often outlive the companies that install them. In this Help Net Security interview, Rob Janssens, EMEA Cyber Security Director at Hikvision Europe, discusses …
Production data in testing is still common, and Tricentis’ CISO wants it gone
In this Help Net Security interview, Erika Dean, CISO at Tricentis, talks about keeping production data out of test environments and why she thinks the alternatives are good …
AI supply chain risk is showing up in developer workflows first
In this Help Net Security interview, Dr. Jaushin Lee, CEO of Zentera Systems, discusses where AI supply chain risk shows up. He says most incidents still hit developer …
A stranger has been reading Salesforce and ServiceNow portals worldwide for 17 months
Most security stories start with something broken. This one starts with everything working as designed. Researchers at Reco have been tracking a campaign they call City-Forum, …
Post-quantum migration gets harder when every user holds a key
In this Help Net Security interview, Christopher Smith, CEO of Quantus, discusses what cryptographic inventories turn up in banks and hospitals, including default passwords …
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