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Zen-AI-Pentest
Zen-AI-Pentest: Open-source AI-powered penetration testing framework

Zen-AI-Pentest provides an open-source framework for scanning and exercising systems using a combination of autonomous agents and standard security utilities. The project aims …

DuckDuckGo AI
DuckDuckGo enables AI voice chat without saving voice data

DuckDuckGo has added voice chat to Duck.ai, allowing users to speak to an AI assistant while keeping audio private, unrecorded, and excluded from AI training. Voice chat is …

social engineering
AI-driven scams are eroding trust in calls, messages, and meetings

In this Help Net Security video, Miguel Fornés, Governance and Compliance Manager at Surfshark, discusses how AI is changing social engineering attacks. He describes how tasks …

Meta
EU targets Meta over WhatsApp AI access restrictions

The European Commission believes Meta breached EU competition rules by blocking other AI assistants from accessing and interacting with users on WhatsApp. The case centers on …

Allama
Allama: Open-source AI security automation

Allama is an open-source security automation platform that lets teams build visual workflows for threat detection and response. It includes integrations with 80+ types of …

AI agents
AI agents behave like users, but don’t follow the same rules

Security and governance approaches to autonomous AI agents rely on static credentials, inconsistent controls, and limited visibility. Securing these agents requires the same …

Opus 4.6
Claude Opus 4.6 improves agentic performance and model safety

Claude Opus 4.6 builds on earlier releases with improved coding performance and more consistent behavior in complex tasks. Opus 4.6 finds real vulnerabilities in codebases …

glasses
Smart glasses are back, privacy issues included

AI smart glasses are the latest addition to fashion, and they include a camera, a microphone, AI, and privacy risks. After Google Glass failed to gain traction more than a …

AI
Measuring AI use becomes a business requirement

Enterprise teams already run dozens of AI tools across daily work. Usage stretches from code generation and analytics to customer support drafting and internal research. …

Firefox AI controls
Firefox to let users manage and block AI features

Mozilla will add a set of controls in Firefox that let users manage and block GenAI features in the desktop browser. The controls will be included in Firefox version 148 on …

OpenAI Codex
OpenAI releases Codex macOS app for agent-based software development

OpenAI has launched the new Codex app for macOS, a dedicated workspace for managing multiple AI coding agents in parallel. The app is designed to help developers reduce …

open-source penetration testing tools
Open-source AI pentesting tools are getting uncomfortably good

AI has come a long way in the pentesting world. We are now seeing open-source tools that can genuinely mimic how a human tester works, not just fire off scans. I dug into …

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