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What to do first when you get 90 days to secure AI agent data

What to do first when you get 90 days to secure AI agent data 2026-09-24 at 08:00 By Mirko Zorz In this interview with Help Net Security, Kelly Herrell, CEO at Nol8, explains where AI agents create exposure inside organizations. The first thing to examine is the data path: what an agent can reach, what […]

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Outerlimit Raises $16 Million to Stop Rogue AI Agents From Causing Harm

Outerlimit Raises $16 Million to Stop Rogue AI Agents From Causing Harm 2026-09-23 at 13:00 By Kevin Townsend Emerging from stealth with $16 million in pre-seed funding, Outerlimit offers a decentralized authorization layer designed to discover, observe, and block harmful autonomous AI actions. The post Outerlimit Raises $16 Million to Stop Rogue AI Agents From […]

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Claude Opus 5.5 cuts costs and adds safeguards for autonomous AI

Claude Opus 5.5 cuts costs and adds safeguards for autonomous AI 2026-09-23 at 11:30 By Anamarija Pogorelec Claude Opus 5.5 is available across Anthropic’s platforms, Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure. Developers can access it through the Claude Platform using the model name claude-opus-5-5. It includes watermarking measures designed to comply with the […]

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Prismor: Open-source runtime control plane for AI agents

Prismor: Open-source runtime control plane for AI agents 2026-09-23 at 08:30 By Anamarija Pogorelec Prismor is a free, open-source security layer for AI coding agents. It sits between an agent such as Claude Code, Codex, or Cursor and the actions that agent wants to take, and it checks each tool call against a policy before […]

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Somewhere in your traffic logs, a bot is doing more than looking

Somewhere in your traffic logs, a bot is doing more than looking 2026-09-22 at 13:30 By Mirko Zorz Akamai has watched verified AI crawlers, ChatGPT among them, move from reading web pages to sending high-frequency POST requests. In a 30-day analysis of its global customers, ecommerce accounted for 44.8% of those AI bot POST transactions, […]

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European AI spending is on track to reach nearly $470 billion by 2030

European AI spending is on track to reach nearly $470 billion by 2030 2026-09-22 at 07:30 By Mirko Zorz European organizations will spend nearly $470 billion on AI in 2030, IDC forecasts, with spending growing at a compound annual rate of 35% from 2025. At that rate, the market more than quadruples in five years. […]

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Zero-click RCE vulnerability hit four major AI coding agents, two remain unpatched

Zero-click RCE vulnerability hit four major AI coding agents, two remain unpatched 2026-09-18 at 11:49 By Sinisa Markovic Four major AI coding agents, Claude Code, Codex, GitHub Copilot and Gemini CLI, all share the same zero-click RCE vulnerability, one that could give an attacker the same reach into a company’s systems and data as the […]

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Hardcoded MCP credentials found in public GitHub files

Hardcoded MCP credentials found in public GitHub files 2026-09-18 at 08:30 By Anamarija Pogorelec Hardcoded API keys, access tokens and other credentials used by AI coding tools have been found in publicly accessible MCP configuration files on GitHub, according to research from Hush Security’s The State of MCP Configuration: The Identity Security Gaps report. The […]

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Spain reports first data breach involving autonomous AI agent

Spain reports first data breach involving autonomous AI agent 2026-09-17 at 11:39 By Sinisa Markovic Spain’s data protection authority (AEPD) has reported its first data breach blamed on an AI agent acting on its own, after the system reportedly logged into a company’s network, found a way to alter personal records, and pulled invoice data. […]

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The AI security question leaders should be asking instead

The AI security question leaders should be asking instead 2026-09-17 at 08:30 By Mirko Zorz In this Help Net Security interview, Frederic Bull, Security Officer at Gremlin, talks about what AI means for security teams. The conversation covers why asking what data a model was trained on is only part of the picture, and why […]

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What happens when AI agent governance is missing at scale

What happens when AI agent governance is missing at scale 2026-09-16 at 09:00 By Mirko Zorz In this interview with Help Net Security, Gourab Basu, Global Head of Engineering at meshIQ, discusses governance in AI agent systems. He argues that instructions written into a prompt are not enough to control what an agent does, since […]

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Microsoft sets security and safety rules for its AI models

Microsoft sets security and safety rules for its AI models 2026-09-15 at 13:50 By Anamarija Pogorelec Microsoft AI has published the first draft of its Humanist AI Code of Conduct, a training manual outlining how it develops AI models and intends them to behave during deployment. The draft is open for public consultation for six […]

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Your employees are already using AI tools you never approved

Your employees are already using AI tools you never approved 2026-09-15 at 08:00 By Anamarija Pogorelec Seventy-four percent of respondents report departmental or scaled AI adoption at their organizations, including within individual teams or departments, across business functions, and as part of processes and operations, according to the latest OneTrust 2026 AI-Ready Governance Report. The […]

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Turn it off and on again, but for critical infrastructure

Turn it off and on again, but for critical infrastructure 2026-09-14 at 09:00 By Anamarija Pogorelec Researchers at KTH Royal Institute of Technology built a container replica of a segmented industrial network, attacked it repeatedly across 14 days of running time, and used the captured traffic to train a defense agent that decides on its […]

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Gartner: 70% of SOCs will pilot AI agents. Only 15% will see results

Gartner: 70% of SOCs will pilot AI agents. Only 15% will see results 2026-09-09 at 08:00 By Help Net Security In the Gartner report Validate the Promises of AI SOC Agents With These Key Questions, analysts Craig Lawson and Andrew Davies posit that “By 2028, 70% of large SOCs will pilot AI agents to augment […]

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Threat actors are giving AI agents a bigger role in cyberattacks

Threat actors are giving AI agents a bigger role in cyberattacks 2026-09-08 at 17:55 By Sinisa Markovic AI agents are automating parts of cyberattacks with less human involvement, including vulnerability scanning, credential harvesting, and troubleshooting, according to Google Threat Intelligence Group’s Q3 2026 AI Threat Tracker. (Source: Google) The report draws on Mandiant incident response […]

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Product showcase: Doppler secures secrets for humans, pipelines, and AI agents

Product showcase: Doppler secures secrets for humans, pipelines, and AI agents 2026-09-08 at 08:00 By Help Net Security Every engineering team has spent years trying to keep credentials out of source code. Then AI agents moved the problem. Coding agents review code, agents run workflows, and MCP servers broker access to databases, cloud providers, and […]

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Microsoft’s Project Zenith puts large AI models directly on developer PCs

Microsoft’s Project Zenith puts large AI models directly on developer PCs 2026-09-08 at 07:30 By Anamarija Pogorelec Microsoft’s Project Zenith is a ready-to-code Windows 11 experience for developer-class PCs capable of running AI models with more than 30 billion parameters locally without relying on metered cloud tokens. Designed for systems with at least 64 GB […]

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OpenAI just hit a milestone on the road to self-improving AI

OpenAI just hit a milestone on the road to self-improving AI 2026-09-07 at 12:05 By Anamarija Pogorelec OpenAI has announced that it has reached a goal set last fall of having an automated research intern by September 2026. The milestone means a system can carry out well-defined research tasks under human direction, including work that […]

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