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Claude Sonnet 5.5 gets faster without a price hike
Anthropic has released Claude Sonnet 5.5, an AI model for coding and office work. The company says it responds more than 30% faster than its predecessor and uses fewer tokens …
A four-week plan to tackle vendor concentration risk
In this Help Net Security video, Guilliano Molaire, founder of Skycloak, explains how to map vendor concentration risk. A company may pay 30 vendors and think its tools are …
Hottest cybersecurity open-source tools of the month: September 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 …
FBI job portals remain offline after ShinyHunters claims breach via PeopleSoft zero-day
The FBI’s online portals for job applicants (at apply.fbijobs.gov) and special agent applicants (at fbijobs.gov/special-agents) are still unavailable, following what …
NVIDIA wants AI agent safety enforced in silicon, not left to the agent
NVIDIA has introduced an open software platform and a hardware-based reference design intended to keep AI agents within the limits set by the organizations that use them. The …
LinkedIn tests a way for connections to verify your work history
LinkedIn is testing a way for members to verify the work and education history of people they know. The platform prompts verified members to confirm that they worked or …
If you do one security check this quarter, make it agent memory
In this interview with Help Net Security, Chris Latimer, CEO of Vectorize, talks about the security risks hiding in AI agent memory. He found coding agents storing API keys, …
Authorizer: Open-source authentication and authorization for your apps
Authorizer is an open-source server for sign-in and access control in web and mobile apps. Teams run it on their own infrastructure and keep user accounts in a database they …
Product showcase: A photo can fool your eyes, Verdict checks the evidence
Verdict is an AI image and video detector designed for iPhone. It works offline and requires no account. Choose a photo or video, run a scan, and the app returns a 0–100 score …
Quantum random numbers can pass the tests and still leak clues to attackers
The European Telecommunications Standards Institute’s (ETSI) technical report, ETSI TR 104 171, offers guidance on building and evaluating quantum random number generators …
Threat detection dashboards are masking security coverage gaps
A detection rule can show up as deployed on a coverage dashboard and still never fire when an attacker uses the technique it was built to catch. Conifers assessed 14,652 …
Stop watching what AI agents say and start watching what they do
In this interview with Help Net Security, Ariel Assaraf, CEO of Coralogix, explains why a system prompt can describe a boundary for an AI agent but cannot enforce one. Assaraf …
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