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NFC
The new economics of fraud: Cheaper, faster, more convincing

Scams have become one of the fastest-growing consumer risks, driven by AI-enabled impersonation, social engineering, and sophisticated attack methods, according to Visa’s …

Devon Bryan
Why AI changed the threat model for travel technology

In this Help Net Security interview, Devon Bryan, SVP, Global CSO at Booking Holdings, reflects on his path from Air Force network security engineer to global CSO across …

AI
AI red teaming agents change how LLMs get tested

Adversarial probing of LLMs has piled up a sprawling toolkit over the past three years. Attack techniques with names like Tree of Attacks with Pruning, Crescendo, and Skeleton …

Nick Nieuwenhuis
Communicating cyber risk in dollars boards understand

In this Help Net Security interview, Nick Nieuwenhuis, Cybersecurity Architect at Nedscaper, explains why cybersecurity has not delivered the resilience that decades of …

lock
When your AI assistant has the keys to production

Large language models in operational roles query telemetry, propose configuration changes, and in some deployments execute those changes against live infrastructure. Ticket …

identity
What happens when your identity provider becomes the kill chain

In this Help Net Security video, Colin Constable, CTO at Atsign, explains why your identity provider (IdP) has become the kill chain in cyberattacks. Attackers steal session …

earpod heartbeat
Earbud sensors can authenticate users by their heartbeat, study finds

Researchers built a continuous authentication system called AccLock that identifies a wearer by the tiny vibrations a heartbeat makes inside the ear canal. The signal comes …

door
The AI backdoor your security stack is not built to see

Enterprises deploying LLMs have spent the past two years building defenses around a reasonable assumption: malicious behavior leaves a trace in the input. Scan for suspicious …

downtime
AI shrinks vulnerability exploitation window to hours

Time has become organizations’ biggest vulnerability because the gap between vulnerability discovery and exploitation has narrowed to hours, according to Synack’s 2026 State …

Rocky Linux
Rocky Linux launches opt-in security repository for urgent fixes

Rocky Linux has introduced a Security Repository that allows the distribution to ship urgent security fixes ahead of upstream Enterprise Linux when public exploit code exists …

face
Deepfake detection is losing ground to generative models

Deepfake detection has been built around a single question for close to a decade. Given a video or audio clip, is it real or synthetic? Commercial detectors analyze pixels, …

AI
AI cyber capability is speeding past earlier projections

AI cyber capability is improving faster than expected, with newer models surpassing earlier projections, according to the UK government’s AI Security Institute (AISI). AISI …

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