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What a financial planner taught me about cybersecurity

When I spoke at a recent cybersecurity awareness event for financial planners and tax advisors, the audience really engaged with the subject. As happens at conferences the …

Code
AI-generated code risks reach security, legal, and compliance teams

Most engineering organizations write code with AI, and a good number of them keep that code away from customers. A Flux survey of engineering leaders and practitioners found …

CISO
Getting boards to fund ERM means speaking their currency

In this Help Net Security video, Greg Young, VP Cybersecurity and Corporate Development at TrendAI, explains how to build Enterprise Risk Management that a board will pay for. …

AVG Mobile Security
Product showcase: Scam calls, phishing, and data breaches? Meet AVG Mobile Security

AVG Mobile Security for iOS helps protect users against online threats with features including Web Guard, VPN, Scam Guardian Pro, Hack Alerts, and Photo Vault. It also …

open-source cybersecurity tools
Hottest cybersecurity open-source tools of the month: June 2026

Presented here is a curated selection of noteworthy open-source cybersecurity solutions that have drawn recognition for their ability to enhance security postures across …

compliance
Half the defense base still builds security around compliance

CMMC requirements are appearing in defense contracts and moving down through supplier networks to thousands of companies new to this kind of compliance work. Many run on …

OpenAI
GPT-5.6 gets better at cybersecurity

OpenAI has started rolling out the GPT-5.6 series models in limited preview to a small group of trusted partners through the API and Codex. The series includes Sol as the …

DarkMoon
DarkMoon: Open-source AI pentesting platform

Penetration testing has long run on expert time, with specialists spending days probing a network or web application by hand. Manual engagements stretch across weeks, expert …

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Companies keep bolting AI onto their products, and the security bill is coming due

Companies keep bolting AI and LLM features onto their products, and the security results are starting to show a pattern. The vulnerabilities those features create get rated …

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Most teams accept higher risk for faster AI database work

Database professionals are using AI for everyday work like writing queries, building schemas, and reviewing code, and a growing share rely on autonomous tools that act on the …

open source
Critical open-source projects get a new security framework

Open source software projects are getting a new framework for handling security vulnerabilities as AI shortens the time between flaw discovery and exploitation. The Linux …

CISO
A privacy-first take on local malware analysis

Submitting a suspicious file to VirusTotal or MalwareBazaar places a copy of that file on a platform other people can search. Analysts across the industry rely on these …

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