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Anubis
Anubis: Open-source web AI firewall to protect from scraper bots

Anubis is an open-source tool designed to protect websites from automated scraping and abusive traffic by adding computational friction before a request is served. Maintained …

identity fraud
Identity risk is changing faster than most security teams expect

Security leaders are starting to see a shift in digital identity risk. Fraud activity is becoming coordinated, automated, and self-improving. Synthetic personas, credential …

Zabbix
Zabbix: Open-source IT and OT observability solution

Zabbix is an open source monitoring platform designed to track the availability, performance, and integrity of IT environments. It monitors networks along with servers, …

CISO
CISOs are spending big and still losing ground

Security leaders are entering another budget cycle with more money to work with, but many still feel no safer. A new benchmark study from Wiz shows a widening gap between …

world
Threat intelligence programs are broken, here is how to fix them

Security teams often gather large amounts of threat data but still struggle to improve detection or response. Analysts work through long lists of alerts, leaders get unclear …

authentication
The collapse of trust at the identity layer

Identity verification has become the latest front in the fight against industrialized fraud, according to a new report from Regula. The shift is visible across sectors that …

cnspec
cnspec: Open-source, cloud-native security and policy project

cnspec is an open source tool that helps when you are trying to keep a sprawling setup of clouds, containers, APIs and endpoints under control. It checks security and …

LLM
Chinese cyber spies used Claude AI to automate 90% of their attack campaign, Anthropic claims

Anthropic threat researchers believe that they’ve uncovered and disrupted the first documented case of a cyberattack executed with the help of its agentic AI and minimal …

Agentic AI
What happens when employees take control of AI

Executives may debate AI strategy, but many of the advances are happening at the employee level. A recent Moveworks study shows that AI adoption is being led from the ground …

cybersecurity essentials
Automation can’t fix broken security basics

Most enterprises continue to fall short on basic practices such as patching, access control, and vendor oversight, according to Swimlane’s Cracks in the Foundation: Why …

Paul J. Mocarski
When every day is threat assessment day

In this Help Net Security interview, Paul J. Mocarski, VP & CISO at Sammons Financial Group, discusses how insurance carriers are adapting their cybersecurity strategies. …

human machine
Autonomous AI could challenge how we define criminal behavior

Whether we ever build AI that thinks like a person is still uncertain. What seems more realistic is a future with more independent machines. These systems already work across …

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