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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Certificate failures can cost firms over $250,000 2026-09-14 at 07:30 By Anamarija Pogorelec The move toward 47-day public TLS certificates by 2029 will increase the certificate management workload for enterprises, according to DigiCert’s Certificate Management Outlook. Organizations will need to renew certificates more than eight times as often as under the previous certificate lifecycle and […]
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AI is changing what Salesforce security needs to govern 2026-09-11 at 07:30 By Anamarija Pogorelec Existing security and governance practices have largely focused on identities, permissions, access, configurations and controls. WithSecure’s Navigating Trust in the Modern Salesforce Ecosystem paper says Salesforce environments also require organizations to understand what information they rely on, how trust extends […]
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WordPress adds automated security checks to block risky plugin releases 2026-09-10 at 13:06 By Anamarija Pogorelec WordPress’ automated security review will now assess every plugin release before it is distributed through the WordPress.org update API. Releases considered a potential security risk will be blocked automatically. “A plugin can be secure today and introduce a vulnerability, […]
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A five-part inventory for your AI agent credentials 2026-09-04 at 08:30 By Help Net Security In this Help Net Security video, Roy Katmor, co-founder and CEO of Orchid, explains why AI agents hold credentials that nobody reviews. Organizations build agents in AI studios, connect them to enterprise tools, and give them accounts to do useful […]
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The OpenClaw 2.0 release moves your sessions into SQLite 2026-08-31 at 10:24 By Anamarija Pogorelec OpenClaw is open source software that hands an AI model small standing jobs across your accounts, the kind of chore where it watches a mailbox for vendor advisories and pings you on Telegram when one names a product you run. […]
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Production data in testing is still common, and Tricentis’ CISO wants it gone 2026-08-26 at 08:30 By Mirko Zorz In this Help Net Security interview, Erika Dean, CISO at Tricentis, talks about keeping production data out of test environments and why she thinks the alternatives are good enough now. She explains how her team caught […]
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OpenAI tightens defenses after AI agents breach research environment 2026-08-18 at 12:41 By Anamarija Pogorelec Following the OpenAI-Hugging Face incident, in which an agentic collective autonomously penetrated OpenAI’s research infrastructure and another company’s production infrastructure by chaining together multiple weaknesses, OpenAI began strengthening its safety requirements. The weaknesses included previously unknown vulnerabilities and credentials leaked […]
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DDoS attacks hit record scale as 1 Tbps+ campaigns become more common 2026-08-13 at 07:30 By Anamarija Pogorelec DDoS attacks grew in scale during the first half of 2026, bringing larger traffic floods, shorter attack durations, and increasingly automated campaigns. Cloudflare’s H1 2026 DDoS Threat Report shows threat actors relying on multi-vector techniques and large-scale […]
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Chinese hacker used DeepSeek to launch autonomous cyberattacks on vulnerable servers 2026-08-03 at 16:51 By Sinisa Markovic A Chinese threat actor operating under the aliases “knaithe” and “KnYuan” used multiple LLMs to automate cyberattacks against internet-facing systems with limited human intervention. Researchers at Palo Alto Networks’ Unit 42 uncovered the operation after the threat actor’s […]
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Companies push AI, sysadmins keep it on a short leash 2026-07-31 at 08:00 By Anamarija Pogorelec In 2024, sysadmins expected AI to automate patch management optimization, vulnerability prioritization, infrastructure monitoring, and incident response within two years. Action1’s 2026 Survey Report: AI Impact on Sysadmins found that those expectations proved overly optimistic. The largest shortfalls appeared […]
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The AI code vulnerabilities that grow with your app 2026-07-23 at 07:30 By Mirko Zorz 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 written from a spec, thrown together from a casual prompt, and rewritten […]
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OpenAI Presence connects AI agents to enterprise data with built-in guardrails 2026-07-22 at 17:01 By Sinisa Markovic 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. (Source: OpenAI) The company describes Presence as a deployment platform rather than a […]
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AI can’t fix cybersecurity’s hiring problem 2026-07-22 at 07:30 By Anamarija Pogorelec Organizations are redefining cybersecurity roles through workforce frameworks and placing greater emphasis on verified skills as AI and new regulatory requirements change hiring. The SANS 2026 Cybersecurity Workforce Survey found demand for specialists in new roles more than doubled over the past year, […]
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Cloud operations become the next big role for agentic AI 2026-07-22 at 07:00 By Anamarija Pogorelec Companies are using agentic AI to manage growing application environments, automate routine tasks, and support decisions. Business and IT leaders increasingly see the technology as part of cloud application management, according to Unisys’ AI & Cloud Insights Report. To […]
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Prompt injection is becoming the XSS of the web agent era 2026-07-17 at 09:00 By Anamarija Pogorelec Autonomous web agents read whatever a page displays, and much of that content comes from strangers. Product reviews, seller listings, and advertisements sit beside trusted site menus on a single page. An agent that reads all of that […]
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Fake smart home residents could stand in for real ones in security research 2026-07-14 at 08:30 By Anamarija Pogorelec Smart home security research runs on a scarce ingredient: recordings of how real people use the gadgets in their homes. Getting that data means wiring up someone’s house and watching for months, which is slow, costly, […]
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AWS gives its ERP agent deny-by-default rules and a separate identity 2026-07-10 at 08:00 By Sinisa Markovic Accounts receivable teams at large companies spend hours each day matching incoming bank payments to invoices by hand. When those payments sit unmatched for days, cash flow suffers and days sales outstanding climbs. The same pattern repeats across […]
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macOS is becoming a proving ground for AI agents 2026-07-08 at 08:00 By Sinisa Markovic Somewhere right now, a Mac Mini is sitting on a shelf doing someone’s chores. Nobody’s watching it. It reads a version number out of Terminal, hops over to Safari, digs up a release year, then quietly files a reminder, the […]
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Researchers make the case for a cybersecurity AI scientist 2026-07-07 at 09:30 By Mirko Zorz Autonomous AI agents have started doing real security work. Language-model agents probe software for flaws, run penetration tests, and chain together attack steps that once needed a human operator. Research about security has stayed slower and more manual, built around […]
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