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FIFA 2026
Meta tries to get ahead of scammers before the World Cup begins

Football fans are counting down the days until the FIFA World Cup begins, and scammers are doing the same. Last week, the FBI warned that cybercriminals are spoofing FIFA …

Windows Server
Windows Netlogon RCE exploited, domain controllers at risk (CVE-2026-41089)

CVE-2026-41089, a critical Windows Netlogon RCE flaw that allows remote code execution, is now actively exploited in the wild, the Centre for Cybersecurity Belgium (CCB) …

alert
Brute-force attack triggers Dashlane account lockouts

Password manager Dashlane has confirmed that a brute-force attack targeting user accounts triggered temporary account suspensions and authentication issues. The company first …

Microsoft
Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management gets a smarter exposure score

Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management’s updated exposure score model adds vulnerability risk signals and asset context to help teams understand where risk is …

NIST NVD
How NIST fumbled management of the National Vulnerability Database

A US federal watchdog has outlined how the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) failed to effectively manage the growing backlog of unprocessed cybersecurity …

Palo Alto Networks
Hackers are exploiting Palo Alto GlobalProtect VPN authentication bypass (CVE-2026-0257)

Authentication bypass vulnerabilities (CVE-2026-0257) in Palo Alto Networks’ firewalls that the company disclosed on May 13 have been targeted in “limited exploit …

NVIDIA
NVIDIA goes open source with a big batch of physical AI agent tools

NVIDIA just dropped a big batch of open-source “physical AI” skills and tools, and they’re designed to make a roboticist’s life a whole lot easier. The …

AI
DNS-AID lets AI agents find and verify each other through DNS

AI agents run across many platforms, and each one needs a way to locate and confirm the identity of the others it works with. The Linux Foundation’s DNS-AID project …

Avani Desai
Data discovery gaps that catch enterprises off guard

In this interview with Help Net Security, Avani Desai, CEO at Schellman, talks about the gap between what organizations think they know about their data and what discovery …

Antonija Vojnović
EU organizations buckle under rising compliance pressure

Cybersecurity governance in the EU is shifting under expanding frameworks such as NIS2 and DORA, while AI raises new questions for security teams. What the future brings is …

Agent Memory Guard
OWASP Agent Memory Guard: Stop AI agents from being weaponized through their own memory

AI agents keep memory across sessions. Conversation history, vector stores, scratchpads, and RAG indexes persist between runs, and anything written into that store becomes a …

shadow AI
Governing shadow AI without killing innovation

In this Help Net Security video, Alan Snyder, CEO at NowSecure, talks about governing shadow AI without stopping innovation. He frames the problem as two opposing forces. …

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