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Cyberattacks hit European grocers: French supermarket freezers hijacked, Dutch and Belgian stores disrupted
European food retailers have been affected by two separate disruptive cyberattacks: In France, several supermarket chains have had their fridges and freezers tampered with and …
Microsoft’s new model helps AI agents judge their next move
Microsoft-Decision-1 is a small decision-scoring model. Given a situation, a question and a fixed set of answer options, it returns a calibrated probability for each option. …
Windows PCs missing key updates could lose security fixes in 2027
Microsoft is advising users and businesses to update Windows devices before digital certificates used to verify Windows Update servers expire in May and June 2027. The …
Geopolitics and the cyber resilience gap belong in your threat model
In this Help Net Security interview, Akshay Joshi, Head of the Centre for Cybersecurity at the World Economic Forum, talks about how AI, geopolitics and industrialized fraud …
AI vulnerability patching has a grading problem
Researchers at Northwestern University tested AI coding agents on 112 real security bugs. They found that a patch which stops a crash often fails the checks the …
What makes some open source updates so difficult?
Many organizations adopt open source software because they see it as a cheaper alternative to proprietary development. Maintaining it, however, still requires engineering …
Anthropic offers free AI security scans to open-source maintainers
Anthropic’s OSS Scanner is a new, free service that uses the company’s strongest AI models to find security vulnerabilities in open-source software. Maintainers who opt in …
What the BPFDoor backdoor tells us about attacks on the network edge
A backdoor that makes no noise is hard to catch, and that’s the point of BPFDoor. The Linux malware waits for a special “magic packet” before it acts. In …
Thousands of wind and solar park systems sit exposed on the internet across Europe
Modat and NCSC-NL, the Dutch government’s cybersecurity center, found 8,547 internet-facing systems at wind farms and solar parks in 35 countries in and around the EU …
Companies want autonomous IT operations but hesitate to let AI act alone
Ninety percent of companies want to move toward autonomous IT operations over the next two years, with agentic AI, software that plans and carries out multi-step tasks on its …
Anthropic’s new budget model gets much better at ignoring hidden commands
Anthropic’s Claude Haiku 5.5 model, designed for quick, repetitive workloads and speed-sensitive tasks, is now better at finding vulnerabilities and writing exploits than its …
GitHub adds AI to catch passwords before a code push
GitHub has announced an AI detector, developed with Microsoft Applied Sciences, to help prevent developers from uploading passwords and other credentials to code repositories. …
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