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AppViewX product showcase
Product Showcase: AppViewX Agent Identity Security

AI is multiplying enterprise identities as quantum computing reshapes the cryptographic trust that secures them, and enterprises need to solve both together. Traditional …

open source
Multi-patch vulnerability fixes can leave open source exposed

Vulnerability management runs on a shorthand. A CVE shows a linked patch, someone applies it, and the ticket moves to closed. That shorthand covers most open source fixes. A …

code
The AI code vulnerabilities that grow with your app

Theori built 28 apps with AI coding agents and scanned each one through its pentesting platform. Five models did the building, split between Anthropic and OpenAI, across apps …

shield
Building a defense in depth strategy for sensitive data

In this Help Net Security video, Venkata Pavan Kumar Gummadi, a Professional Software Engineer, explains how to build a defense in depth strategy for protecting sensitive …

Hugging Face
OpenAI: Our models breached Hugging Face during a cyber capability test

The recent Hugging Face breach was the work of several OpenAI models, the AI research company claimed in a blog post. The breach Late last week, the company behind Hugging …

OpenAI
OpenAI Presence connects AI agents to enterprise data with built-in guardrails

OpenAI has introduced Presence, a product designed to help companies deploy AI agents that handle customer support and internal service requests across voice and chat. …

SharePoint
Another SharePoint RCE exploited: Patch, then rotate your machine keys (CVE-2026-50522)

Attackers are exploiting a critical SharePoint remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability (CVE-2026-50522) to extract the servers’ IIS machine keys. “WatchTowr is …

FIFA 2026
US seizes over 1,000 domains used for illegal World Cup 2026 streams

The US Department of Justice has seized more than 1,000 internet domains that streamed FIFA World Cup 2026 matches without a license. The domain seizure notice (Source: US …

Robot
AI models cheat on cybersecurity evaluations, then fail to admit it

Frontier AI models will take just about any route to finish a task, cheating included, according to new cybersecurity evaluations from the UK government’s AI Security …

Google Gemini
Google’s Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber becomes a vulnerability hunter

Google’s Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber model finds, validates, and patches vulnerabilities before they can be exploited while helping mitigate broader misuse. It is part of a …

phishing
Police dismantle Kratos phishing platform behind 15,000 monthly campaigns

German and US law enforcement have dismantled the infrastructure behind Kratos, a notorious phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) platform. Its alleged developer and administrator was …

person
Small teams are the heaviest users of AI coding agents

The pull request arrives with the tests already run and the description already written, the work of an agent that handled the whole thing on its own. Somebody still has to …

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