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The Energy Sector’s Ransomware Nightmare: Why Critical Infrastructure Can’t Catch a Break

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The Energy Sector’s Ransomware Nightmare: Why Critical Infrastructure Can’t Catch a Break 2026-03-26 at 12:32 By Ashish Khaitan Let’s talk about the sector that keeps our lights on, water running, and industries humming—and why it’s become ransomware’s favorite target.  In 2025, the global energy and utilities sector faced 187 confirmed ransomware attacks. Not attempts. Confirmed, successful intrusions where attackers locked systems, stole […]

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Your facilities run on fragile supply chains and nobody wants to admit it

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Your facilities run on fragile supply chains and nobody wants to admit it 2026-03-26 at 12:32 By Mirko Zorz In this Help Net Security interview, Christa Dodoo, Global Chair at IFMA, discusses how facility managers are managing supply chain risk in critical building systems. She explains how sourcing, localized redundancy, and flexible infrastructure design are

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A nearly undetectable LLM attack needs only a handful of poisoned samples

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A nearly undetectable LLM attack needs only a handful of poisoned samples 2026-03-26 at 12:32 By Mirko Zorz Prompt engineering has become a standard part of how large language models are deployed in production, and it introduces an attack surface most organizations have not yet addressed. Researchers have developed and tested a prompt-based backdoor attack

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Google races to secure encryption before quantum threats arrive

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Google races to secure encryption before quantum threats arrive 2026-03-26 at 12:07 By Sinisa Markovic Google is preparing for the quantum era, a turning point in digital security, with a 2029 timeline for post-quantum cryptography (PQC) migration. Security professionals warn that current encryption could be broken by large-scale quantum computers in the coming years. This

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Who owns AI agent access? At most companies, nobody knows

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Who owns AI agent access? At most companies, nobody knows 2026-03-26 at 07:12 By Anamarija Pogorelec AI agents are operating across production enterprise environments at scale, and the identity infrastructure managing their access has not kept up with their deployment. A January 2026 survey of 228 IT and security professionals, conducted by the Cloud Security

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Gemini picks up criminal activity buried in dark web noise

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Gemini picks up criminal activity buried in dark web noise 2026-03-25 at 15:07 By Sinisa Markovic To help teams make faster and more accurate decisions on emerging threats, Google has introduced a dark web intelligence capability in Google Threat Intelligence. Powered by Gemini, the feature analyzes millions of dark web events each day and surfaces

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Why your phishing simulations aren’t building a security culture

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Why your phishing simulations aren’t building a security culture 2026-03-25 at 08:07 By Help Net Security Security culture isn’t built by phishing simulations. In this Help Net Security video, Dan Potter, VP of Cyber Resilience at Immersive, argues that annual training videos and quarterly phishing tests happen in calm, controlled settings that tell us nothing

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Your security stack looks fine from the dashboard and that’s the problem

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Your security stack looks fine from the dashboard and that’s the problem 2026-03-25 at 08:07 By Anamarija Pogorelec One in five enterprise endpoints is operating outside a protected and enforceable state on any given day, according to device telemetry collected across tens of millions of corporate PCs. That figure, drawn from Absolute Security’s 2026 Resilience

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The AI safety conversation is focused on the wrong layer

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The AI safety conversation is focused on the wrong layer 2026-03-24 at 16:30 By Mirko Zorz Organizations have spent years accumulating fragmented identity systems: too many roles, too many credentials, too many disconnected tools. For a workforce of humans, that fragmentation was manageable. Humans log in, log out, and make decisions slowly enough that gaps

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Quantum threats are already active and the defense response remains fragmented

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Quantum threats are already active and the defense response remains fragmented 2026-03-23 at 17:17 By Mirko Zorz Enterprises are moving toward post-quantum security at uneven speeds, and the gap between organizations that have built crypto-agility into their infrastructure and those that have adopted the label without the underlying capability is widening. Dr. Tan Teik Guan,

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The devices winning the race to get hacked in 2026

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The devices winning the race to get hacked in 2026 2026-03-23 at 17:17 By Sinisa Markovic Enterprise networks keep adding connected devices, expanding the attack surface as threat actors target a wider range of systems, many of which are difficult to inventory, secure, and patch consistently. (Source: Forescout) Forescout’s 2026 Riskiest Devices research maps that

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

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Plumber: Open-source scanner of GitLab CI/CD pipelines for compliance gaps 2026-03-23 at 09:18 By Anamarija Pogorelec GitLab CI/CD pipelines often accumulate configuration decisions that drift from security baselines over time. Container images get pinned to mutable tags, branches lose protection settings, and required templates go missing. An open-source tool called Plumber automates the detection of

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

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Your AI agents are moving sensitive data. Do you know where? 2026-03-23 at 09:18 By Mirko Zorz 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 focuses on prompt injection and model behavior, Cohen argues

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

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NIST updates its DNS security guidance for the first time in over a decade 2026-03-23 at 09:18 By Mirko Zorz DNS infrastructure underpins nearly every network connection an organization makes, yet security configurations for it have gone largely unrevised at the federal guidance level for more than twelve years. NIST published SP 800-81r3, the Secure

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Secure endpoint management systems immediately, CISA urges

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Secure endpoint management systems immediately, CISA urges 2026-03-19 at 14:59 By Sinisa Markovic The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) warns that the cyberattack on Stryker Corporation serves as a signal to U.S. organizations that foreign cyber activity tied to Middle East conflicts may be spilling into their operations. Attackers breached Stryker’s internal Microsoft

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Inside Russia’s Shift to Credential-Based Intrusions: What CISOs Need to Know in 2026

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Inside Russia’s Shift to Credential-Based Intrusions: What CISOs Need to Know in 2026 2026-03-19 at 13:32 By Ashish Khaitan Russia-linked hacktivist activity has entered a noticeably different phase. While earlier campaigns leaned heavily on disruption through denial-of-service and opportunistic scanning of exposed systems, the current trajectory shows a stronger dependence on credential-based intrusions and identity-based cyber attacks. For security leaders,

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Your APIs are under siege, and attackers are just getting warmed up

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Your APIs are under siege, and attackers are just getting warmed up 2026-03-19 at 07:21 By Anamarija Pogorelec Internet-facing systems are handling sustained levels of malicious traffic across APIs, web applications, and DDoS channels. Akamai’s State of the Internet security report places these patterns within the same operating environment, with activity increasing across each area

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Apple starts issuing lightweight security updates between software releases

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Apple starts issuing lightweight security updates between software releases 2026-03-18 at 13:32 By Sinisa Markovic Apple is delivering small security updates, called Background Security Improvements, starting with iOS 26.1, iPadOS 26.1, and macOS 26.1. Apple describes Background Security Improvements as lightweight security releases for components such as Safari, the WebKit framework, and other system libraries,

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Major tech companies invest $12.5 million in open source security

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Major tech companies invest $12.5 million in open source security 2026-03-18 at 11:31 By Sinisa Markovic The Linux Foundation announced $12.5 million in grant funding backed by Anthropic, AWS, GitHub, Google, Google DeepMind, Microsoft, and OpenAI to strengthen open source security. The funding will be directed through the foundation’s Alpha-Omega Project and the Open Source

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