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Residential proxies make a mockery of IP-based defenses

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Residential proxies make a mockery of IP-based defenses 2026-04-06 at 09:16 By Sinisa Markovic Attack traffic moved through ordinary home and mobile connections in ways that limited the usefulness of IP reputation on its own. GreyNoise observed 4 billion malicious sessions during a 90-day period and described activity that appeared indistinguishable from normal user traffic […]

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IT talent looks the other way as wireless security incidents pile up

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IT talent looks the other way as wireless security incidents pile up 2026-04-06 at 09:16 By Sinisa Markovic Enterprise wireless networks are supporting a growing mix of devices and applications, increasing operational demand and security exposure. The 2026 Cisco State of Wireless report reflects these conditions through rising incident rates, higher costs, and ongoing staffing

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CISOs grapple with AI demands within flat budgets

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CISOs grapple with AI demands within flat budgets 2026-04-06 at 09:16 By Anamarija Pogorelec Security spending continues to edge upward across large organizations, though the changes remain gradual and tightly managed. The 2026 RH-ISAC CISO Benchmark reflects a steady environment where budgets expand in small steps, even as AI becomes a routine part of security

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Microsoft releases open-source toolkit to govern autonomous AI agents

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Microsoft releases open-source toolkit to govern autonomous AI agents 2026-04-03 at 08:39 By Anamarija Pogorelec AI agents can book travel, execute financial transactions, write and run code, and manage infrastructure without human intervention at each step. Frameworks like LangChain, AutoGen, CrewAI, and Azure AI Foundry Agent Service have made this kind of autonomy straightforward to

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Click, wait, repeat: Digital trust erodes one login at a time

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Click, wait, repeat: Digital trust erodes one login at a time 2026-04-03 at 07:58 By Anamarija Pogorelec Sign-up forms that drag on, login steps that repeat, and access requests that take longer than expected have become a normal part of using digital services. These moments rarely stand out on their own, and over time they

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New infosec products of the month: March 2026

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New infosec products of the month: March 2026 2026-04-03 at 07:02 By Anamarija Pogorelec Here’s a look at the most interesting products from the past month, featuring releases from Beazley, Bonfy.AI, Mend.io, Mimecast, NinjaOne, Novee, Intel 471, Singulr AI, Stellar Cyber, Teleport, and Vicarius. Beazley Exposure Management platform identifies external exposures and prioritizes cyber risk

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Trust, friction, and ROI: A CISO’s take on making security work for the business

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Trust, friction, and ROI: A CISO’s take on making security work for the business 2026-04-02 at 08:42 By Mirko Zorz In this Help Net Security interview, John O’Rourke, CISO at PPG, talks about what it means for security to drive business value. He explains how mature security programs reduce friction in sales cycles and M&A

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Mimecast makes enterprise email security deployable in minutes

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Mimecast makes enterprise email security deployable in minutes 2026-04-01 at 10:34 By Mirko Zorz Most organizations running Microsoft 365 rely on native email controls as their primary line of defense. According to Mimecast research, 38% of organizations depend exclusively on those native controls for collaboration security, and 64% say those controls are insufficient against the

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Malware detectors trained on one dataset often stumble on another

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Malware detectors trained on one dataset often stumble on another 2026-04-01 at 07:05 By Anamarija Pogorelec Machine learning models built to catch malware on Windows systems are typically evaluated on data that closely resembles their training set. In practice, the malware arriving on enterprise endpoints looks different, comes from different sources, and in many cases

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Crypto industry may be running out of time to prepare for quantum attacks

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Crypto industry may be running out of time to prepare for quantum attacks 2026-03-31 at 22:44 By Sinisa Markovic Google’s latest research suggests the cryptocurrency industry may have less time than expected to prepare for quantum computing. In a whitepaper, Google examines risks to elliptic curve cryptography, the system securing most blockchain networks. The researchers

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Amazon sends AI agents into pen testing and DevOps

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Amazon sends AI agents into pen testing and DevOps 2026-03-31 at 20:31 By Sinisa Markovic Amazon’s latest AI capabilities bring on-demand penetration testing through the AWS Security Agent, alongside the AWS DevOps Agent. “These agents are changing the way we secure and operate software. AWS Security Agent compresses penetration testing timelines from 2-6 weeks to

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Apple counters ClickFix attacks with macOS Terminal warning

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Apple counters ClickFix attacks with macOS Terminal warning 2026-03-31 at 16:05 By Sinisa Markovic Apple has added a new security feature in macOS Tahoe 26.4 that warns users before they enter commands in Terminal that could cause harm. The goal is to stop ClickFix attacks, a social engineering trick that gets users to run malicious

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Why I’m done calling humans the weakest link

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Why I’m done calling humans the weakest link 2026-03-31 at 11:22 By Help Net Security Cybersecurity has long suffered from a people problem, but not in the way we often hear about. As industry that is based on enabling communication across the globe via the internet and many types of devices, many of us practitioners

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The art of making technical risk make sense to executives

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The art of making technical risk make sense to executives 2026-03-31 at 11:21 By Help Net Security In this Help Net Security video, Jay Miller, CISO at Paessler, explains how security leaders can communicate technical risk to executives and board members in terms they understand. The focus is on business impact: financial loss, compliance fines,

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Hottest cybersecurity open-source tools of the month: March 2026

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Hottest cybersecurity open-source tools of the month: March 2026 2026-03-31 at 07:37 By Anamarija Pogorelec Presented here is a curated selection of noteworthy open-source cybersecurity solutions that have drawn recognition for their ability to enhance security postures across diverse settings. BlacksmithAI: Open-source AI-powered penetration testing framework BlacksmithAI is an open-source penetration testing framework that uses

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Why risk alone doesn’t get you to yes

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Why risk alone doesn’t get you to yes 2026-03-30 at 09:29 By Help Net Security I have been in security rooms for years, from military operations centers to corporate boardrooms. In all those years I can tell you that the hardest mission that most security leaders will face is not identifying a threat, but getting

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Don’t count on government guidance after a smart home breach

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Don’t count on government guidance after a smart home breach 2026-03-30 at 07:30 By Sinisa Markovic People are filling their homes with internet-connected cameras, speakers, locks, and routers. When one of those devices is compromised, the next steps are often unclear. Researchers reviewing government cybersecurity advice in 11 countries found that most guidance focuses on

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Breaking out: Can AI agents escape their sandboxes?

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Breaking out: Can AI agents escape their sandboxes? 2026-03-30 at 07:30 By Anamarija Pogorelec Container sandboxes are part of routine AI agent testing and deployment. Agents use them to run code, edit files, and interact with system resources without direct access to the host. The SandboxEscapeBench benchmark, developed by researchers at the University of Oxford

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AI frenzy feeds credential chaos, secrets leak through code, tools, and infrastructure

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AI frenzy feeds credential chaos, secrets leak through code, tools, and infrastructure 2026-03-27 at 20:33 By Anamarija Pogorelec Code keeps moving through pipelines, and credentials continue to surface alongside it. GitGuardian’s State of Secrets Sprawl 2026 puts the count at 28.65 million new hardcoded secrets in public GitHub commits in 2025, extending a multi-year rise

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China’s APT41 and the Expanding Enterprise Attack Surface: What Security Teams Must Prepare For

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China’s APT41 and the Expanding Enterprise Attack Surface: What Security Teams Must Prepare For 2026-03-27 at 16:01 By Ashish Khaitan The modern enterprise attack surface is no longer confined to corporate networks and endpoints; it now stretches across cloud workloads, supply chains, remote devices, and even operational technology environments. Within this fragmented landscape, the activities

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