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Black Hat USA 2026
Photos: Black Hat USA 2026

Photo gallery from the Business Hall at Black Hat USA 2026. Interesting booths, demo stages, crowded aisles, and the moments in between. The second gallery is here. Featured …

Keys
Three in four AI-generated vulnerability patches leave something broken

Ask a frontier model to patch a real vulnerability and it will hand you something that looks like a fix. It reads like the patch a maintainer would write. When there is a …

lock
Snowflake hacker pleads guilty, faces up to 32 years in prison

A Canadian man is facing decades in prison for hacking customer accounts at cloud storage provider Snowflake and stealing data from more than 165 organizations. Connor Riley …

Agentic AI
Discounted Claude access bought on the gray market may expose every prompt you send

More than half a dozen services advertised on underground forums and messaging platforms, offering discounted or “unlimited” token access to frontier AI models, …

Cisco
Critical Cisco IMC bug gives attackers root, PoC is out (CVE-2026-20200)

Cisco has fixed a critical vulnerability (CVE-2026-20200) in its Integrated Management Controller (IMC), which allows an attacker to run commands as root through the …

Microsoft
Microsoft extends zero trust deeper into enterprise AI

Microsoft expanded its Zero Trust for AI strategy with updates to the Zero Trust Assessment tool and the Zero Trust Workshop. The additions help organizations assess security …

Black Hat Arsenal
Photos: Black Hat USA 2026 Arsenal

This week Help Net Security is at the Mandalay Bay, where Arsenal is running alongside the Briefings. If you’ve never been, it’s the corner of Black Hat that feels …

OWASP GenAI Security Project
OWASP 2026 LLM Top 10: “The model will be fooled”

The OWASP GenAI Security Project has released the 2026 edition of its Top 10 for LLM Applications and, for the first time, the list was influenced by real-world incidents. The …

Rui Ribeiro
Browser security is where software, data, and AI meet

In this interview with Help Net Security, Rui Ribeiro, CEO of Jscrambler, explains why the browser has become a security problem organizations do not control. Companies do not …

botnet
Suppliers, logins, and AI tools are all becoming attack paths

Cybercriminals and state-backed hacking groups are abusing trusted identities, cloud services, AI tools, and software supply chains to gain access while avoiding detection, …

non-human identities
Non-human identities are 91% of everything active in production

A backup job fires at two in the morning. A scanner walks the same AWS account an hour later, a deployment pipeline assumes a role at four, and a logging agent runs straight …

Cloudflare OS
Cloudflare OS goes open source with a record of everything its agents read

Cloudflare open sourced Cloudflare OS, the agent platform whose first version its own employees have used since May. Every resource an agent reads gets recorded, the record …

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