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AI is drowning software maintainers in junk security reports

AI-assisted vulnerability research has exploded, unleashing a firehose of low-quality reports on overworked software maintainers who are wasting hours sifting through noise …

Microsoft
Microsoft’s agentic security system found four critical Windows RCE flaws

Microsoft responded to growing competition in AI security by announcing that its new agentic security system helped researchers discover 16 new vulnerabilities in the Windows …

Amazon Quick
Amazon Quick authorization bypass let users reach blocked AI chat agents

Enterprises running Amazon Quick, the AWS business intelligence and agentic AI service, rely on a feature called custom permissions to restrict who inside an account can use …

Linux
Linux developers weigh emergency “killswitch” for vulnerable kernel functions

Linux kernel developers are reviewing a proposal for an emergency risk mitigation mechanism (“Killswitch”) that would allow administrators to disable vulnerable …

Ollama
Unpatched flaws turn Ollama’s auto-updater into a persistent RCE vector, researchers say

Researchers at Striga have disclosed two vulnerabilities (CVE-2026-42248, CVE-2026-42249) in Ollama’s Windows auto-updater that, when chained together, may allow an …

Meta
Meta and PortSwigger drive offensive security further to find what others miss

Meta Bug Bounty and PortSwigger have formed a partnership to help security researchers sharpen their skills, collaborate more closely, and improve vulnerability discovery. The …

Nuno Rodrigues Carvalho
Coordinated vulnerability disclosure is now an EU obligation, but cultural change takes time

In this Help Net Security interview, Nuno Rodrigues Carvalho, Head of Sector for Incident and Vulnerability Services at ENISA, discusses the recent CVE funding scare and what …

GitHub
In GitHub’s advisory pipeline, some advisories move faster than others

GitHub Security Advisories are used to distribute vulnerability information in open-source projects and security tools. A new study finds that only a portion of those …

Google
Major vulnerabilities found in Google Looker, putting self-hosted deployments at risk

Researchers at Tenable have disclosed two vulnerabilities, collectively referred to as “LookOut,” affecting Google Looker. Because the business intelligence platform is …

connected car
Tesla, Sony, and Alpine systems compromised on day one of Pwn2Own Automotive 2026

Security researchers uncovered 37 previously unknown vulnerabilities on the opening day of Pwn2Own Automotive 2026, earning a combined $516,500 in prize money, according to …

AI
Why vulnerability reports stall inside shared hosting companies

Security teams keep sending vulnerability notifications, and the same pattern keeps repeating. Many alerts land, few lead to fixes. A new qualitative study digs into what …

CVE
What happens when vulnerability scores fall apart?

Security leaders depend on vulnerability data to guide decisions, but the system supplying that data is struggling. An analysis from Sonatype shows that core vulnerability …

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