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Alysia Johnson
Securing digital keys when your phone unlocks the car

In this interview with Help Net Security, Alysia Johnson, President of the Car Connectivity Consortium (CCC), explains how the CCC Digital Key has grown from a single-brand …

magnify
Google’s open standard for AI agents to discover and verify tools

AI agents depend on tools, skills, and other agents spread across many teams, organizations, and platforms. These capabilities live in separate systems with their own …

GitGuardian Developer Endpoint Protection
How security teams are getting credential visibility into developer endpoints

As we noted in our earlier analysis, attackers already know secrets are on your developers’ machines, the only question is whether security teams do. The supply chain …

AI
What happens to oversight when AI agents write a lab’s own code

Inside the labs building frontier AI, a growing share of the coding gets done by the AI itself. These agents write, edit, and run software with light human oversight between …

AWS
AWS Continuum brings AI models to code vulnerability management

AWS Continuum for code vulnerabilities, a system built to handle a vulnerability across its lifecycle, from discovery through to a fix, is now available in gated preview. It …

Homebrew
Homebrew tightens tap security, begins work on its interface

Anyone who installs software through a third-party Homebrew tap runs Ruby code written by people outside the project, and that code runs without a sandbox. That risk sits at …

signal
Most agentic AI projects in production have stalled over data problems

Enterprises are connecting AI agents to live data feeds and putting them to work on tasks that once required human review, from IT operations to software development. The …

Agentic AI
Low-skilled attacker used Claude, Codex to breach 14 companies

Researchers have long warned that AI agents could lower the skill floor for offensive cyber operations, and a recent report by OALABS (Open Analysis) researchers bears that …

data breach
Another healthcare firm attacked days after Novo Nordisk breach

Medical technology company iRhythm Holdings disclosed a cyberattack involving certain third-party-hosted business applications that resulted in the theft of patient protected …

mobile
Rokarolla Android trojan targets banking and crypto users, enables device takeover

A newly discovered Android banking trojan, dubbed Rokarolla, targets 217 banking and cryptocurrency applications and can execute 137 commands on infected devices, according to …

Microsoft Defender
Microsoft working on patch for RoguePlanet Defender zero-day (CVE-2026-50656)

Microsoft has acknowledged the local elevation of privilege issue in Microsoft Defender that can be triggered via the “RoguePlanet” exploit, and is “working …

Android 17
What’s new in Android 17? Anti-theft tools, scam detection, and parental controls

The Android 17 rollout has started for supported Pixel devices, delivering new security and privacy capabilities before expanding to other devices later this year. Security …

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