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zero trust
AppGate delivers identity-based ZTNA for secure access across OT systems

AppGate has announced the launch of its Operational Technology (OT) ZTNA solution. Designed to secure industrial control systems, manufacturing plants, energy facilities, and …

Oracle
Oracle issues emergency fix for pre-auth RCE in Identity Manager (CVE-2026-21992)

Oracle has released an out-of-band patch for a critical and easily exploitable vulnerability (CVE-2026-21992) in Oracle Identity Manager and Oracle Web Services Manager. The …

Signal app
Russian hackers go after high-value targets through Signal

Russian intelligence-linked hackers are targeting commercial messaging platforms, with Signal a primary focus, the FBI and CISA warn. The campaign is aimed at individuals of …

Gidi Cohen
Your AI agents are moving sensitive data. Do you know where?

In this Help Net Security interview, Gidi Cohen, CEO at Bonfy.AI, addresses what he sees as the most pressing gap in AI agent security: data-layer risk. While the industry …

Plumber
Plumber: Open-source scanner of GitLab CI/CD pipelines for compliance gaps

GitLab CI/CD pipelines often accumulate configuration decisions that drift from security baselines over time. Container images get pinned to mutable tags, branches lose …

NIST
NIST updates its DNS security guidance for the first time in over a decade

DNS infrastructure underpins nearly every network connection an organization makes, yet security configurations for it have gone largely unrevised at the federal guidance …

cybersecurity week in review
Week in review: ScreenConnect servers open to attack, exploited Microsoft SharePoint flaw

Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, articles, interviews and videos: What smart factories keep getting wrong about cybersecurity In this Help Net …

Cisco
Cisco FMC flaw was exploited by Interlock weeks before patch (CVE-2026-20131)

A critical vulnerability (CVE-2026-20131) in Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center (FMC) that Cisco disclosed and patched in early March 2026 has been exploited as a …

Android
Google slows Android sideloading to trip up scammers

Google’s advanced flow for Android changes how apps from unverified developers are installed, adding steps to reduce scam-driven sideloading. The feature is aimed at …

insider threat
Terminated contract led to $2.5 million cyber extortion scheme

A federal jury convicted Cameron Curry, 27, a Charlotte resident, of carrying out an extensive cyber extortion scheme targeting a Washington, D.C.-based international …

botnet
Authorities disrupt four IoT botnets behind record DDoS attacks

The U.S. Justice Department and international partners have disrupted four IoT botnets linked to DDoS attacks that reached 30 terabits per second, among the largest ever recorded.

music
Fake AI songs streamed billions of times, netting fraudster $10 million

Michael Smith, 54, of Cornelius, North Carolina, has pleaded guilty in federal court to running a scheme that exploited music streaming platforms and diverted royalty payments …

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