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Artificial intelligence

AI
The AI safety conversation is focused on the wrong layer

Organizations have spent years accumulating fragmented identity systems: too many roles, too many credentials, too many disconnected tools. For a workforce of humans, that …

vulnerabilities
32% of top-exploited vulnerabilities are over a decade old

Exploitation timelines continued to compress in enterprise environments, with newly disclosed flaws reaching active use almost immediately and older weaknesses remaining …

Microsoft
Microsoft details AI prompt abuse techniques targeting AI assistants

Prompt abuse occurs when crafted inputs manipulate an AI system into producing unintended behavior, such as attempting to access sensitive information or overriding built-in …

Tim Nan
Measuring security performance in real-time, not once a quarter

Most organizations have invested heavily in security products over the past decade. The assumption embedded in that spending is that more tools equal better protection. Tim …

Gidi Cohen
Your AI agents are moving sensitive data. Do you know where?

In this Help Net Security interview, Gidi Cohen, CEO at Bonfy.AI, addresses what he sees as the most pressing gap in AI agent security: data-layer risk. While the industry …

music
Fake AI songs streamed billions of times, netting fraudster $10 million

Michael Smith, 54, of Cornelius, North Carolina, has pleaded guilty in federal court to running a scheme that exploited music streaming platforms and diverted royalty payments …

Christian Debes
AI got it wrong with high confidence. Now what?

In this Help Net Security interview, Christian Debes, Head of Data Analytics & AI at SPRYFOX, talks about the growing gap between what AI models do and what their …

open source
Big tech companies step in to support the open source security ecosystem

Backed by new funding commitments from major technology players, open source security efforts are moving beyond threat identification toward practical solutions for defenders. …

Microsoft
Microsoft zeroes in on AI-driven data risks in Fabric

New Microsoft Purview innovations for Microsoft Fabric help organizations secure data and accelerate AI adoption. The updates focus on identifying risks, preventing data …

AI
Hidden instructions in README files can make AI agents leak data

Developers rely on AI coding agents to set up projects, install dependencies, and run commands by following instructions in repository README files, which provide setup …

Code
AI coding agents keep repeating decade-old security mistakes

Coding agents are now writing production features on real development teams, and a new report from DryRun Security shows that those agents introduce security vulnerabilities …

ENISA
ENISA advisory examines package manager security risks

Developers install external libraries with a single command, and that step can introduce more code than expected into a project environment. Dependency resolution inside …

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