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Anthropic
Anthropic’s Enterprise Frontier Safeguards lets your Claude logs stay in your cloud

Eight members of the Analysis and Resilience Center for Systemic Risk, a group whose roster includes the CISOs of Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Citi, Bank of America, and …

puzzle
An AI CAPTCHA solver talked itself out of the right answer

You have probably spent a few seconds of your life turning a picture until it lines up. Some sites, instead of asking you to tick a box, show you a circular chunk of a photo …

software
CISA review makes the case for eliminating vulnerability classes

For years, the security industry has treated vulnerabilities as an endless queue of individual fixes. A recent CISA review argues that this is precisely why attackers keep …

Phishing
Vishing campaign abuses Microsoft Teams to give attackers a foothold in company networks

A coordinated voice-phishing (vishing) campaign, named Spring Ring, used fake IT support accounts on Microsoft Teams to trick employees into installing malware or granting …

malware
Fake Claude Opus 5 app delivers malware and wipes its own tracks

A malicious GitHub repository impersonating Anthropic and claiming to offer free access to “Claude Opus 5” is delivering RevStealer, Windows information-stealing malware that …

Berlin
Berlin refuses to be blackmailed after network breach

Berlin’s state government has confirmed an extortion attempt following a data theft from its administrative network in August. Governing Mayor Kai Wegner and Interior …

Askeal, the AI cybersecurity assistant that gives verifiable, expert-backed answers

Askeal takes the opposite approach to omniscient Gen AI: rather than pretending to know everything, it combines AI with community expertise. Vetted vendors, researchers, and …

CrowdSec
Bot detection arrives in CrowdSec 1.8.0, along with two DoS fixes

Failed SSH logins pile up in an auth log, and a scanner walks a website looking for exposed admin paths. CrowdSec reads log sources and HTTP requests, works out which …

NIS2
NIS2 compliance: Fixing IAM and access control before the 2026 audit

The NIS2 Directive places direct obligations on organizations across supply chain risk management, incident reporting, and board-level accountability. October brings a new …

Dr. Yaakov Stein
What your vendor says about PQC tells you if they are ready

In this interview with Help Net Security, Dr. Yaakov Stein, VP CTO of Allot, discusses what post-quantum readiness looks like inside a mobile network. The discussion covers …

cybersecurity jobs
Cybersecurity jobs available right now: September 1, 2026

Security Engineer, PSO Google | USA | On-site – View job details As a Security Engineer, you will provide technical guidance to customers adopting Google Cloud Platform, …

AI
Threat actors are posing as AI crawlers to hunt for exposed credentials

Attackers are disguising automated scanning as traffic from AI crawlers operated by OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Perplexity and other companies while searching websites for …

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