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The world must establish red lines for autonomous AI weapons
AI is transforming warfare and international conflict. Autonomous weapon systems pose a genuine threat to civilians. The war in Ukraine has become a proving ground for weapons …
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 …
Certificate failures can cost firms over $250,000
The move toward 47-day public TLS certificates by 2029 will increase the certificate management workload for enterprises, according to DigiCert’s Certificate Management …
AI is changing what Salesforce security needs to govern
Existing security and governance practices have largely focused on identities, permissions, access, configurations and controls. WithSecure’s Navigating Trust in the Modern …
WordPress adds automated security checks to block risky plugin releases
WordPress’ automated security review will now assess every plugin release before it is distributed through the WordPress.org update API. Releases considered a potential …
A five-part inventory for your AI agent credentials
In this Help Net Security video, Roy Katmor, co-founder and CEO of Orchid, explains why AI agents hold credentials that nobody reviews. Organizations build agents in AI …
The OpenClaw 2.0 release moves your sessions into SQLite
OpenClaw is open source software that hands an AI model small standing jobs across your accounts, the kind of chore where it watches a mailbox for vendor advisories and pings …
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 …
OpenAI tightens defenses after AI agents breach research environment
Following the OpenAI-Hugging Face incident, in which an agentic collective autonomously penetrated OpenAI’s research infrastructure and another company’s production …
DDoS attacks hit record scale as 1 Tbps+ campaigns become more common
DDoS attacks grew in scale during the first half of 2026, bringing larger traffic floods, shorter attack durations, and increasingly automated campaigns. Cloudflare’s H1 …
Chinese hacker used DeepSeek to launch autonomous cyberattacks on vulnerable servers
A Chinese threat actor operating under the aliases “knaithe” and “KnYuan” used multiple LLMs to automate cyberattacks against internet-facing systems …
Companies push AI, sysadmins keep it on a short leash
In 2024, sysadmins expected AI to automate patch management optimization, vulnerability prioritization, infrastructure monitoring, and incident response within two years. …
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