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privacy
145 AI laws passed in 2025 and privacy teams aren’t catching a break

145 AI-related laws were enacted by state legislatures in 2025, and more than 1,000 additional bills were introduced or revised, according to DataGrail’s Privacy and AI …

Claude
Anthropic launches Claude Opus 4.8, prepares Mythos-class models for all customers

Anthropic has released Claude Opus 4.8 and outlined plans for broader access to its Mythos-class models, which the company expects to make available to all customers in the …

trojan
The behavioral signals that sharpen Trojan malware detection

Malware analysts spend a lot of time deciding which signals from a sandbox run are worth keeping. A sample executed in a controlled environment can generate hundreds of …

TotalAV
Product showcase: TotalAV helps iOS users clean up their digital mess

TotalAV Mobile Security helps protect devices from malicious websites, SMS scams, unsafe public Wi-Fi networks, and exposed credentials. The app is available for Windows, …

magnify
Building a risk-based vulnerability management program that scales

In this Help Net Security video, Shankar Somasundaram, CEO at Asimily, explains how to build a risk-based vulnerability program. He notes that vulnerabilities are exploding by …

Zapier
Zapier exploit chain shows how known anti-patterns compose into critical risk

A five-stage exploit chain disclosed by Token Security researchers turned a free Zapier account into write access on Zapier’s public developer SDK packages and on …

Hrvoje Englman
The CISO selling confidence in a market full of breach headlines

Engineering teams across enterprise IT are writing their own software with AI coding assistants, spinning up agents that act on their behalf, and assigning those agents the …

key
Frontier AI models collapse under multi-turn AI attacks, Cisco finds

Attackers who probe large language models rarely give up after one refusal. They reframe, build context across turns, adopt personas, and escalate gradually. New research from …

open-source cybersecurity tools
Hottest cybersecurity open-source tools of the month: May 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 …

cloud security
Companies built AI into core systems before figuring out how to govern it

70% of organizations use GenAI in live environments, and 64% have AI agents in pilot or production deployments. Some of those agents have privileged access to core systems, …

Claude
Claude now reviews and fixes vulnerabilities as you write code

Anthropic introduced a security-guidance plugin for Claude Code that reviews code changes for common vulnerabilities and helps Claude identify and fix issues during the same …

Malcolm Portelli
Coinflow CISO on crypto payments security under AI pressure

Crypto payment firms sit near the top of the target list for advanced persistent threat groups, and the workload on their security leaders keeps growing. Malcolm Portelli, …

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