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software supply chain security
Turning software supply chain security into a daily habit

In this Help Net Security video, Anastasia Tikhonova, Global Threat Research Lead at Group-IB, explains how to operationalize software supply chain risk. Instead of filing an …

AWS
AWS gives its ERP agent deny-by-default rules and a separate identity

Accounts receivable teams at large companies spend hours each day matching incoming bank payments to invoices by hand. When those payments sit unmatched for days, cash flow …

authentication
Only 28% of financial workforce MFA is phishing-resistant

Passwords remain part of many workforce authentication flows in financial organizations, making phishing and credential theft major identity security risks, according to a new …

Infosec products of the week
New infosec products of the week: July 10, 2026

Here’s a look at the most interesting products from the past week, featuring releases from Attestiv, Automox, Codenotary, and First Recon AI. Codenotary launches AI security …

Microsoft 365 phishing
Extortion crew hijacks Microsoft 365 accounts via fake passkey setup

The Pink cyber extortion crew is tricking employees into giving them access to their Microsoft 365 accounts by faking Entra passkey enrollment requests. The attack The attack …

Microsoft Windows Defender
Microsoft releases fix for RoguePlanet Defender flaw (CVE-2026-50656)

Microsoft has finally released a security update for its Microsoft Malware Protection Engine, which fixes CVE-2026-50656, the Windows Defender local privilege escalation …

arrest
5,811 arrests, $293 million seized over social engineering scams

Criminals who pose as police officers, romantic partners, and business suppliers have built fraud operations that reach across continents. A four-month enforcement campaign …

yes no
Your coding agent says no in chat and yes in the code

Millions of developers share their keyboard with GitHub Copilot. Inside Visual Studio Code, it opens their files, writes and edits code, runs scripts, and reworks its own …

Claude AWS
AWS centralizes access, spending, and governance for Claude

Claude apps gateway for AWS is a self-hosted control plane that gives organizations a single point of control over access, costs, and policies for Claude Code and Claude …

Search
Malicious AI agent skills can slip past the scanners built to stop them

Developers who build with AI coding agents grab capabilities off public marketplaces the same way they grab packages from npm or PyPI. The add-ons are called agent skills. …

reddit
The fake report message that ends with a stolen Reddit account

A direct message arrives on Reddit from a stranger, and it invites a reply. That reply is the point. This scheme runs on social engineering, with no malware and no malicious …

GitHub
Open-source collaboration is growing worldwide and putting pressure on maintainers

Developers are pushing code and opening pull requests across economy borders at a rate GitHub has rarely seen. Outbound collaboration, the sum of git pushes and pull requests …

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