DuckDB stays open source while the team behind it goes to work for Amazon
Hannes Mühleisen and Mark Raasveldt started as AWS employees. The two built DuckDB, an analytical database that runs inside your process instead of on a server somebody has to …
National Life Group CISO expects more vulnerabilities in six months than in thirty years
In this Help Net Security interview, Becky Palmer is VP and CISO at National Life Group, answers five questions about defending against AI-driven attacks. The discussion …
Scareware ads keep running on Google’s transparency tool, even after they’re reported
A team of NYU and Radboud University researchers spent a year building a tool to find deceptive software ads inside Google’s public ad archive. It works. It also exposed …
Open-source secrets scanning tool Sift hunts credentials in Microsoft 365, Slack, and Jira
Sift is a free, open-source command line tool that searches for passwords, API keys, and other sensitive data across the places a company keeps its work: local disks, Windows …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 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 …
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 …
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