Samba 4.24.0 ships Kerberos hardening and a CVE fix for domain encryption defaults
Samba 4.24.0 arrived carrying a set of Kerberos security changes aimed at Active Directory deployments. The release fixes a vulnerability, extends audit coverage for sensitive …
Java 26 ships with new cryptography API and HTTP/3 support
Oracle released JDK 26, the 17th consecutive feature release delivered under the six-month cadence the project adopted in 2018. The release includes ten JDK Enhancement …
Betterleaks: Open-source secrets scanner
Secrets scanning has become standard practice across engineering organizations, and Gitleaks has been one of the most widely used tools in that space. The author of that …
AI got it wrong with high confidence. Now what?
In this Help Net Security interview, Christian Debes, Head of Data Analytics & AI at SPRYFOX, talks about the growing gap between what AI models do and what their …
Elite members of North Korean society fake their way into Western paychecks
Increased federal activity, including indictments over the past year, has drawn attention to a pattern that has been unfolding inside corporate hiring pipelines. North Korean …
Your APIs are under siege, and attackers are just getting warmed up
Internet-facing systems are handling sustained levels of malicious traffic across APIs, web applications, and DDoS channels. Akamai’s State of the Internet security report …
Firefox is getting a free built-in VPN
Mozilla is adding a free built-in VPN to Firefox, with the feature arriving in Firefox 149 on March 24. Privacy concerns often follow free VPN services, especially when …
Apple starts issuing lightweight security updates between software releases
Apple is delivering small security updates, called Background Security Improvements, starting with iOS 26.1, iPadOS 26.1, and macOS 26.1. Apple describes Background Security …
Big tech companies step in to support the open source security ecosystem
Backed by new funding commitments from major technology players, open source security efforts are moving beyond threat identification toward practical solutions for defenders. …
Cybercriminals scale up, government sector hit hardest
Government agencies faced the highest volume of cyberattack campaigns in 2025, according to new findings from HPE Threat Labs, which tracked 1,186 active campaigns over the …
Stop building security goals around controls
In this Help Net Security interview, Devin Rudnicki, CISO at Fitch Group, argues that security strategy fails when it loses its connection to business outcomes. Rudnicki walks …
Global fraud losses climb to $442 billion
Online fraud is reaching more victims and generating larger losses, driven by digital tools and organized networks operating across borders. Global trends in financial fraud …