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Apple Passwords app
Apple Intelligence can now replace weak passwords without user intervention

Apple’s next generation of Apple Intelligence, the company’s personal intelligence system, expands its capabilities and introduces new security features in Passwords. …

Paras Malhotra
Treating AI agents like service accounts for federated query security

In this interview with Help Net Security, Paras Malhotra, CISO at Starburst, explains how the company handles data governance across federated query environments. Topics …

GitHub
GitHub Copilot app launches as desktop home for AI coding agents

GitHub introduced the Copilot app, a desktop application built for working with AI coding agents, at Microsoft Build 2026. The release expands GitHub’s Copilot product …

AgentGG
AgentGG: Open-source agentic SAST scanner

Static analysis tools have spent years matching source code against known-bad patterns and handing engineers long lists of candidate issues to triage by hand. AgentGG …

AI agent
AI agent governance gets harder when agents outnumber your people

In this Help Net Security video, Amit Gautam, CTO at Abluva, explains the security risks that autonomous AI agents bring into enterprise environments. He opens with a real …

AI
Only 11% of production agents pass the AI agent security bar

Enterprise teams are running AI agents that write code, drive browsers, answer customer calls, manage cloud infrastructure, and query data warehouses with standing …

Microsoft Copilot
Microsoft Scout agent opens a new category of always-on Autopilots

Workplace AI assistants have mostly waited for a prompt before doing anything. A user asks, the tool answers, and the exchange ends there. Microsoft is putting a different …

Agent Threat Rules
Agent Threat Rules: Open detection rule format for AI agent security threats

AI agents run inside coding assistants, MCP servers, and multi-agent frameworks, and the access that makes them useful also opens paths to prompt injection, tool poisoning, …

NVIDIA
NVIDIA goes open source with a big batch of physical AI agent tools

NVIDIA just dropped a big batch of open-source “physical AI” skills and tools, and they’re designed to make a roboticist’s life a whole lot easier. The …

Agent Memory Guard
OWASP Agent Memory Guard: Stop AI agents from being weaponized through their own memory

AI agents keep memory across sessions. Conversation history, vector stores, scratchpads, and RAG indexes persist between runs, and anything written into that store becomes a …

Windows
Microsoft’s new cloud PCs place AI agents under enterprise controls

Microsoft’s Windows 365 for Agents, a cloud PC platform for agentic workloads, runs AI agents in secure environments. Organizations can direct agents with natural language to …

Google
Google AI Threat Defense targets attackers using AI to find flaws faster

Google Cloud introduced AI Threat Defense, an automated cybersecurity platform that combines several of the company’s security assets to find, prioritize, and patch …

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