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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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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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