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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 …
An AI agent can pass every safety check and still leak secrets
A pull request lands with a tidy bug report in the description. A bot reads it before any person does, pulls a few shell commands out of it, gets them approved, and posts the …
The energy sector’s OT cybersecurity talent is retiring faster than it can be replaced
A ransomware hit lands a chemical plant in a safe state. Nobody is hurt, the site holds steady, and the operators begin the restart. The systems stay down. Every attempt to …
Shadow AI incident response begins with logs that may already be gone
In this Help Net Security interview, Brandy Wityak, VP of Complex Matters at LevelBlue, explains what happens in the hours after a shadow AI incident. She describes how …
Marathon Petroleum’s CISO on OT security automation, supply chain risk
In this interview with Help Net Security, Mary Rose Martinez, CISO at Marathon Petroleum, talks about what happens to security when automation reaches deep into refineries, …
Multi-patch vulnerability fixes can leave open source exposed
Vulnerability management runs on a shorthand. A CVE shows a linked patch, someone applies it, and the ticket moves to closed. That shorthand covers most open source fixes. A …
Small teams are the heaviest users of AI coding agents
The pull request arrives with the tests already run and the description already written, the work of an agent that handled the whole thing on its own. Somebody still has to …
The air gap is a myth and other OT security truths
Benjamin Bachmann, Director Group Information Security at Bilfinger, speaks with Help Net Security about defending industrial plants. He explains why attackers want to control …
Reading between the lines of a cyber insurance policy
Enterprises in regulated industries often carry cyber insurance policies because contracts require it or boards ask for documented risk transfer. The global market for these …
Orbia CISO Miranda Ritchie on building security into sustainable infrastructure
In this interview with Help Net Security, Miranda Ritchie, CISO at Orbia, talks about protecting industrial systems where software runs water, chemical and manufacturing …
OpenAI and Anthropic are pulling in different directions
Companies are handing routine operational decisions to AI agents that plan, remember, and act on their behalf. These agents run on statistical models, and their behavior can …
Researchers make the case for a cybersecurity AI scientist
Autonomous AI agents have started doing real security work. Language-model agents probe software for flaws, run penetration tests, and chain together attack steps that once …
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