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Microsoft wants to limit AI agents’ permissions when they stray from the job
Microsoft’s Guardian Agents in Project Perception adapt as agent activity, risk, security context and organizational policy change. They help security teams understand why …
Your frontline workers have a workaround for that MFA prompt
Frontline workers in healthcare and manufacturing are getting around slow, unreliable logins by staying signed in, sharing credentials and trying to bypass multifactor …
Cybercriminals favor Microsoft over Apple and Google in brand phishing attacks
Microsoft accounted for 33% of brand impersonation attempts tracked by Check Point Research in the third quarter of 2026, up from 23% in the previous quarter and roughly four …
Half the AI bot traffic hammering your website comes from Meta
AI agent traffic across DataDome’s network grew 41.5% quarter over quarter to nearly 25 billion requests in Q3 2026, according to the company’s AI Traffic Report Q3 2026. …
Ransomware pressure now reaches employees’ homes and families
Ransomware attackers threatened employees’ family members or friends at 37% of organizations surveyed for Semperis’ 2026 Ransomware Risk Report. The survey covered 1,200 IT …
Fake Arch Linux AUR packages exploit typos to run malware with root privileges
Arch Linux users who mistyped yay or paru while installing the package helpers from the Arch User Repository (AUR) may have given a stranger root access to their machine. AUR …
DDoS attacks can knock services offline before links reach capacity
More than 9.1 million DDoS attacks were recorded globally between January and June 2026, an increase of nearly a quarter year over year, according to Netscout’s DDoS Threat …
Immuta CISO predicts critical AI incidents at major enterprises within 18 months
In this Help Net Security interview, Michael Scott, CISO at Immuta, talks about how organizations should handle permissions for AI agents. He argues agents should be treated …
The internet’s attack surface moves at very different speeds
Censys found that AI-related software exposed to the public internet grew 63% in nine months, from 164,088 IP addresses in October 2025 to 267,915 in July 2026. Elsewhere in …
AI-generated changes create review bottlenecks in software delivery
83.4% of respondents who use DevOps practices run CI/CD pipelines, making them the most widely adopted practice in that group, according to JetBrains’ The State of CI/CD in …
Product showcase: GuardOS checks QR links, scans for data breaches, and filters Safari content
GuardOS is an iPhone application that combines device security checks, VPN access, Safari content filtering, QR link scanning, and storage cleanup. It is available through the …
GitHub adopts cheaper AI model to catch secrets developers leave in code
GitHub has trained a credential classifier to improve generic secret detection and reduce false alerts. The new pipeline cut median post-push scan execution time by 86% and …
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