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AI adoption brings new security headaches for already stretched CISOs

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AI adoption brings new security headaches for already stretched CISOs 2026-09-10 at 07:30 By Anamarija Pogorelec CISOs are taking on AI governance without a matching increase in resources or expertise, adding to an already broad remit spanning data protection, identity, resilience and compliance, according to Proofpoint’s 2026 Voice of the CISO report. The Al mandate […]

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Chinese AI firms are siphoning capabilities from American models, CISA warns

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Chinese AI firms are siphoning capabilities from American models, CISA warns 2026-09-09 at 12:55 By Anamarija Pogorelec China-based AI companies are using large-scale knowledge distillation campaigns to copy capabilities from leading U.S. AI models, according to a joint cybersecurity advisory from the CISA, NSA, and FBI. Knowledge distillation is a standard AI training technique that […]

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

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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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What breach and attack simulation needs to become in the AI era

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What breach and attack simulation needs to become in the AI era 2026-09-09 at 07:30 By Help Net Security Breach and attack simulation (BAS) has always had a supply chain. Somebody has to read the threat report, pull out the techniques, and turn them into something that will actually run against your controls. That somebody […]

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Ransomware negotiation tactics have turned into a business process

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Ransomware negotiation tactics have turned into a business process 2026-09-08 at 08:40 By Help Net Security In this Help Net Security video, Dave Ross, Senior Director of the Intelligence Fusion Team at Intel 471, explains what happens behind the scenes during ransomware negotiations. Ross walks through the tactics groups use once an attack begins, from […]

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

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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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AI-Driven Threat Intelligence for Gulf Enterprises: Why Detection Speed Is Now a Regulatory Requirement

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AI-Driven Threat Intelligence for Gulf Enterprises: Why Detection Speed Is Now a Regulatory Requirement 2026-09-04 at 19:25 By Ashish Khaitan Six hours. That’s the incident notification window under the UAE’s Information Assurance Standard v2. Once a breach is detected, the framework requires incident notifications within 6 hours of detection, alongside quarterly compliance updates and annual […]

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Microsoft Teams is about to make QR code phishing much harder

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Microsoft Teams is about to make QR code phishing much harder 2026-09-04 at 11:28 By Sinisa Markovic Microsoft is preparing a new feature for Teams users that will help them stay safe from QR code phishing. Teams will automatically hide QR codes sent by people outside the organization. Users will need to reveal the image […]

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A five-part inventory for your AI agent credentials

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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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Most of the bugs Claude Mythos found have never been checked by a human

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Most of the bugs Claude Mythos found have never been checked by a human 2026-09-04 at 07:30 By Anamarija Pogorelec Anthropic pointed Claude Mythos Preview at 281 open-source projects and collected 23,019 candidate vulnerabilities. External security firms reviewed 1,900 of them. Maintainers received 1,596 reports and acknowledged 1,451; 97 fixes landed upstream, and 88 findings […]

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Google’s Gemini 3.8 Flash takes on bigger AI models at a lower cost

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Google’s Gemini 3.8 Flash takes on bigger AI models at a lower cost 2026-09-03 at 16:34 By Sinisa Markovic Google has introduced Gemini 3.8 Flash, available to developers today, and a gated sibling, Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber, reserved for vetted security teams. “Our 3rd Flash release in just 6 wks,” Google CEO Sundar Pichai said […]

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Your AI agent’s system prompt is not a security control

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Your AI agent’s system prompt is not a security control 2026-09-03 at 10:53 By Anamarija Pogorelec An AI agent told in its system prompt to show a user only what that user is cleared to see will hand over more the moment someone talks it into doing so. Gee Rittenhouse, who oversees Security Hub, GuardDuty, […]

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Your threat feed is someone else’s database: What ingesting malware intel at scale takes

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Your threat feed is someone else’s database: What ingesting malware intel at scale takes 2026-09-03 at 08:30 By Help Net Security The advice is to consume shared threat intelligence. Join the ISAC. Wire the community feeds into your pipeline. This looks like a fine advice and I agree to it. What nobody mentions you is […]

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National Life Group CISO expects more vulnerabilities in six months than in thirty years

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National Life Group CISO expects more vulnerabilities in six months than in thirty years 2026-09-02 at 09:00 By Mirko Zorz In this Help Net Security interview, Becky Palmer is VP and CISO at National Life Group, answers five questions about defending against AI-driven attacks. The discussion covers why patch cycles built for human speed cannot […]

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Askeal, the AI cybersecurity assistant that gives verifiable, expert-backed answers

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Askeal, the AI cybersecurity assistant that gives verifiable, expert-backed answers 2026-09-01 at 08:30 By Mirko Zorz Askeal takes the opposite approach to omniscient Gen AI: rather than pretending to know everything, it combines AI with community expertise. Vetted vendors, researchers, and practitioners contribute their intelligence and tools to help users conduct manual investigations. The startup, […]

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What your vendor says about PQC tells you if they are ready

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What your vendor says about PQC tells you if they are ready 2026-09-01 at 07:30 By Mirko Zorz In this interview with Help Net Security, Dr. Yaakov Stein, VP CTO of Allot, discusses what post-quantum readiness looks like inside a mobile network. The discussion covers which operator traffic stays sensitive for years, including subscriber identity […]

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What vulnerability prioritization looks like when KEV, EPSS, and CVSS disagree

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What vulnerability prioritization looks like when KEV, EPSS, and CVSS disagree 2026-08-31 at 09:00 By Mirko Zorz In this Help Net Security interview, Dr. Joye Purser, Global Field CISO at Cohesity, explains how to rank vulnerabilities when KEV, EPSS, and CVSS point in different directions. Active exploitation comes first, then exploit likelihood, then technical severity, […]

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What 90 days and a small budget can buy in AI agent security

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What 90 days and a small budget can buy in AI agent security 2026-08-28 at 08:30 By Mirko Zorz In this interview with Help Net Security, Prasad Tharippala, Field CISO at Versa, explains what organizations miss when they run open-weight models in house. He covers the hidden costs of GPU infrastructure, licensing review and staffing, […]

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The best human hacking team still out-solved the best AI team

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The best human hacking team still out-solved the best AI team 2026-08-27 at 07:30 By Anamarija Pogorelec Bring an AI agent to a hacking competition and you would expect to find it propping up the teams who were struggling. In the 2026 Global Cyber Skills Benchmark, agents showed up in 17 of the Top 25 […]

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