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AI
More employees get AI tools, fewer rely on them at work

People across many organizations now have access to AI tools, and usage keeps spreading. Some groups rely on AI during regular work, others treat it as an occasional helper. …

Agentic AI
Agentic AI edges closer to everyday production use

Many security and operations teams now spend less time asking whether agentic AI belongs in production and more time working out how to run it safely at scale. A new Dynatrace …

winapp
Microsoft introduces winapp, an open-source CLI for building Windows apps

Microsoft has released winapp, a new command line interface aimed at simplifying the process of building Windows applications. The open-source tool targets developers who rely …

Infosec products of the week
New infosec products of the week: January 23, 2026

Here’s a look at the most interesting products from the past week, featuring releases from cside, Obsidian Security, Rubrik, SEON, and Vectra AI. cside targets hidden website …

energy sector
Energy sector orgs targeted with AiTM phishing campaign

Organizations in the energy sector are being targeted with phishing emails aimed at compromising enterprise accounts, Microsoft warns. The attack campaign The attacks started …

connected car
Tesla, Sony, and Alpine systems compromised on day one of Pwn2Own Automotive 2026

Security researchers uncovered 37 previously unknown vulnerabilities on the opening day of Pwn2Own Automotive 2026, earning a combined $516,500 in prize money, according to …

OpenWrt
OpenWrt One gains support for running Debian

Debian now runs on the OpenWrt One hardware platform following recent engineering work by Collabora. OpenWrt One is a developer focused router designed to support embedded …

cloud
Exposed training apps are showing up in active cloud attacks

Security teams often spin up vulnerable applications for demos, training, or internal testing. A recent Pentera research report documents how those environments are being left …

large language models
Unbounded AI use can break your systems

In this Help Net Security video, James Wickett, CEO of DryRun Security, explains cyber risks many teams underestimate as they add AI to products. He focuses on how fast LLM …

domain security
The internet’s oldest trust mechanism is still one of its weakest links

Attackers continue to rely on domain names as an entry point into enterprise systems. A CSC domain security study finds that large organizations leave this part of their …

key
A new framework helps banks sort urgent post-quantum crypto work from the rest

Financial institutions now have a concrete method for deciding where post-quantum cryptography belongs on their security roadmaps. New research coordinated by Europol sets out …

macOS Tahoe
macOS Tahoe improves privacy and communication safety

macOS Tahoe privacy and security features focus on screening unwanted contact, limiting tracking, and keeping more decisions on the device. Most updates run quietly in the …

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