vulnerability management
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: 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 …
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 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 …
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 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 …
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 …
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 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 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 …
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 …
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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