cybersecurity
Companies keep getting breached by vulnerabilities they already knew about
Scanning tools have gotten good at their work. Organizations now find more weaknesses across more of their systems than at any earlier point in the industry’s history. A …
Finance phishing works because it sounds boringly normal
Finance departments process a constant stream of invoices, contracts, payment notices, and procurement emails, making email one of the most common initial access vectors for …
SingGuard-NSFA: Open-source guardrails for agentic AI
SingGuard-NSFA is an open-source guardrail framework aimed at operational threats in agent workflows. Four models ship at 0.8B, 2B, 4B, and 9B parameters, all built on Qwen3.5 …
The MDR renewal question: What changes when AI can handle the alerts
For most of the past decade, the managed detection and response (MDR) decision was a simple one: teams that couldn’t staff a 24/7 SOC outsourced detection and response …
An AI overthinking attack can tie a robot up for over a minute
Robots that read the world through cameras now lean on large vision-language models to interpret what they see and decide what to do next. These models handle images and text …
AI used to help plan the break-in, now it’s doing the break-in
Over the past twelve months, researchers documented intrusions in which AI ran exploitation workflows autonomously, generating thousands of commands across dozens of sessions …
Google adds FIDO2 keys and phone passkeys to Windows login via GCPW
Google has started rolling out FIDO2-compliant physical security key support as a second factor for authentication in Google Credential Provider for Windows (GCPW) to all …
No one knows how many old shims can still bypass UEFI Secure Boot
The vast majority of UEFI computers carry a Microsoft certificate that will trust a small first-stage loader called a shim, a program Microsoft signs so that Linux and …
The best defense against AI attacks turns out to be a skeptical human
Analysts across the security industry now run generative AI through their daily work, from log triage to incident write-ups. Active use in cybersecurity strategy reached 78% …
Fake smart home residents could stand in for real ones in security research
Smart home security research runs on a scarce ingredient: recordings of how real people use the gadgets in their homes. Getting that data means wiring up someone’s house …
Why SBOMs, signing, and provenance still don’t tell you if software is safe
We have made real progress in software supply chain security, improving visibility into software components, authenticity and build integrity. Much of this progress traces …
Cynative: Open-source deep research agent
Running a large language model against a live cloud account to hunt for security holes comes with an obvious hazard. An agent that holds real credentials and a mandate to poke …
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