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Patching and preventing issues: What are the lessons you can learn?
In this Help Net Security interview, Kunal Modasiya, Senior VP & GM at Qualys, talks about why patching is still hard to get right. He explains how business pressure, …
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 …
AI endpoint management: Visibility, compliance, and remediation
Endpoint estates are growing faster than the teams that look after them. Hybrid work, cloud adoption, contractor laptops, a steady stream of new CVEs, and rising compliance …
Android apps can now check security patches down to individual device components
New AndroidX Security State libraries provide a more granular way to determine how securely patched an Android device is. The stable Security State v1.1.0 and Security State …
September 2026 Patch Tuesday: Record patch count, 2 zero-days, and a SigRed successor
September 2026 Patch Tuesday is here, with Microsoft delivering another record-breaking number of patches, including those for two vulnerabilities that have been exploited as …
National Life Group CISO expects more vulnerabilities in six months than in thirty years
In this Help Net Security interview, Becky Palmer, VP and CISO at National Life Group, answers five questions about defending against AI-driven attacks. The discussion covers …
What vulnerability prioritization looks like when KEV, EPSS, and CVSS disagree
In this Help Net Security interview, Dr. Joye Purser, Global Field CISO at Cohesity, explains how to rank vulnerabilities when KEV, EPSS, and CVSS point in different …
8,539 reasons to rethink how vulnerabilities get patched
The window for responding to newly disclosed security flaws is getting shorter. Exploit code can appear quickly, exploitability can be tested soon after disclosure, and …
OpenAI tightens defenses after AI agents breach research environment
Following the OpenAI-Hugging Face incident, in which an agentic collective autonomously penetrated OpenAI’s research infrastructure and another company’s production …
Three in four AI-generated vulnerability patches leave something broken
Ask a frontier model to patch a real vulnerability and it will hand you something that looks like a fix. It reads like the patch a maintainer would write. When there is a …
Companies push AI, sysadmins keep it on a short leash
In 2024, sysadmins expected AI to automate patch management optimization, vulnerability prioritization, infrastructure monitoring, and incident response within two years. …
200 new CVEs a day and no realistic way to patch them all
Ryan Dewhurst, CEO at KEVIntel, explains how his team confirms exploitation that CISA’s catalog has not listed yet. He describes a global honeypot sensor network, AI …
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