cybersecurity
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Two CEOs on why security and AI readiness belong together
SuperOps and Guardz are bundling PSA, RMM, MDM, and agentic SecOps into one offering for MSPs. In this Help Net Security Q&A, SuperOps CEO Arvind Parthiban and Guardz CEO …
Healthcare leaders see a fatal cyber incident as inevitable
Healthcare practices run on a chain of outside vendors. An EMR system holds clinical records, a billing platform processes claims, a telehealth tool supports remote visits, …
WhatsApp will warn users before they message a potential scammer
WhatsApp is rolling out a warning screen on Android and iOS that appears before users open chats with unfamiliar phone numbers. Meta hopes that this new feature will help …
Google Wallet adds TSA Touchless ID for faster airport screening
Google Wallet has joined the Transportation Security Administration’s (TSA) PreCheck Touchless ID program, allowing travelers to pass through security checkpoints using the …
Scoring AI hackers when there is no answer key
AI models are solving more and more of the offensive-cyber tests built to measure them. Once a model solves most of a benchmark, that benchmark runs out of room and says …
Google Workspace expands password reset alerts to all admins
Google’s Alert Center, a dashboard in the Google Admin console that displays security and administrative alerts and helps administrators identify, investigate, and respond to …
Where IT meets OT and railway cybersecurity gets harder
In this interview with Help Net Security, Jorge Aldegunde, Global Head of Railway Services at DNV, talks through what happens when old operational technology meets newer IT in …
Security testing was built for a slower world
Software teams are pushing code into production faster than security testing can keep up. AI is accelerating development cycles and adding pressure to security programs that …
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