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Claude
Claude now reviews and fixes vulnerabilities as you write code

Anthropic introduced a security-guidance plugin for Claude Code that reviews code changes for common vulnerabilities and helps Claude identify and fix issues during the same …

Verizon DBIR 2026
Verizon DBIR: Vulnerability exploitation is the dominant initial access vector

Vulnerability exploitation has overtaken stolen credentials as the most common way attackers gain initial access to target networks, according to the 2026 Verizon Data Breach …

downtime
AI shrinks vulnerability exploitation window to hours

Time has become organizations’ biggest vulnerability because the gap between vulnerability discovery and exploitation has narrowed to hours, according to Synack’s 2026 State …

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 …

Firefox
Claude Mythos finds 271 Firefox flaws, Mozilla believes it shifts security toward defenders

The Mozilla Foundation tested Claude Mythos, an Anthropic AI model that has stirred debate in the cybersecurity community. Before granting access to Mythos, Mozilla scanned …

NIST NVD
NIST admits defeat on NVD backlog, will enrich only highest-risk CVEs going forward

NIST is overhauling how it manages the National Vulnerability Database (NVD) and switching to a risk-based model that prioritizes “enrichment” of only the most …

Art Manion
Fixing vulnerability data quality requires fixing the architecture first

In this Help Net Security interview, Art Manion, Deputy Director at Tharros, examines why vulnerability data across repositories stays inconsistent and hard to trust. The …

Alec Summers
The case for fixing CWE weakness patterns instead of patching one bug at a time

In this Help Net Security interview, Alec Summers, MITRE CVE/CWE Project Lead, discusses how CWE is moving from a background reference into active use in vulnerability …

open source
Open-source security debt grows across commercial software

Open source code sits inside nearly every commercial application, and development teams continue to add new dependencies. Black Duck’s 2026 Open Source Security and Risk …

Claude Code Security
Claude Code scans, verifies, and patches code vulnerabilities

Anthropic brings Claude Code Security to Claude Code on the web through a limited research preview. Claude Code Security (Source: Anthropic) Claude Code Security analyzes code …

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 …

CISA
Don’t panic over CISA’s KEV list, use it smarter

In this Help Net Security video, Tod Beardsley, VP of Security Research at runZero, explains what CISA’s Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) Catalog is and how security …

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