cybersecurity
What insurers really look at in your identity controls
Insurers judge organizations by the strength of their identity controls and by how consistently those controls are applied, according to a new Delinea report. CISOs are …
How one quick AI check can leak your company’s secrets
In this Help Net Security video, Dinesh Nagarajan, Global Partner, Cyber Security Services at IBM Consulting, walks through a situation in which an employee shared production …
Convenience culture is breaking personal security
AI is changing how scams are built, shared, and trusted. A new global survey from Bitdefender shows how far the problem has spread. AI is helping scams evolve faster than …
Google Play Store’s privacy practices still confuse Android users
Privacy rules like GDPR and CCPA are meant to help app stores be clearer about how apps use your data. But in the Google Play Store, those privacy sections often leave people …
BlueCodeAgent helps developers secure AI-generated code
When AI models generate code, they deliver power and risk at the same time for security teams. That tension is at the heart of the new tool called BlueCodeAgent, designed to …
The confidence trap holding security back
Security leaders often feel prepared for a major cyber incident, but performance data shows a different reality. Teams continue to miss key steps during practice scenarios, …
When IT fails, OT pays the price
State groups, criminal crews, and hybrid operators are all using familiar IT entry points to reach systems that support industrial processes, according to the latest …
Threat group reroutes software updates through hacked network gear
Sometimes an attack hides in the most ordinary corner of a network. ESET researchers say a China aligned threat group known as PlushDaemon has been quietly using hacked …
The long conversations that reveal how scammers work
Online scammers often take weeks to build trust before making a move, which makes their work hard to study. A research team from UC San Diego built a system that does the …
How to cut security tool sprawl without losing control
In this Help Net Security video, Jon Taylor, Director and Principal of Security at Versa Networks, talks about how organizations can deal with security tool sprawl. He …
Agentic AI puts defenders on a tighter timeline to adapt
Security teams know that attackers rarely wait for defenders to be ready. The latest AI Maturity in Cybersecurity Report from Arkose Labs shows how quickly the threat …
The privacy panic around machine learning is overblown
We often hear warnings about how machine learning (ML) models may expose sensitive information tied to their training data. The concern is understandable. If a model was …
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