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OpenAI’s GPT-5.4 doubles down on safety as competition heats up

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OpenAI’s GPT-5.4 doubles down on safety as competition heats up 2026-03-06 at 11:32 By Sinisa Markovic In the midst of recent developments and controversies surrounding a contract with the U.S. Department of Defense, OpenAI released the GPT-5.4 model. The release comes at a time when users are reportedly leaving ChatGPT for rival chatbots, particularly Anthropic’s […]

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March 2026 Patch Tuesday forecast: Is AI security an oxymoron?

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March 2026 Patch Tuesday forecast: Is AI security an oxymoron? 2026-03-06 at 10:47 By Help Net Security Developers and analysts are using more AI tools to produce code and to test both the performance and security of the finished products. They are also embedding AI functionality in their products directly. But just how secure are […]

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Backup strategies are working, and ransomware gangs are responding with data theft

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Backup strategies are working, and ransomware gangs are responding with data theft 2026-03-06 at 09:18 By Sinisa Markovic Business email compromise (BEC) and funds transfer fraud combined for 58% of all cyber insurance claims filed in 2025, according to data from Coalition covering more than 100,000 policyholders across the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, […]

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Why phishing still works today

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Why phishing still works today 2026-03-06 at 08:30 By Help Net Security In this Help Net Security video, Gal Livschitz, Senior Penetration Tester at Terra Security, explains how phishing has evolved and why employees still fall for it. He outlines how phishing now uses HTTPS, branded pages, and lookalike domains, making attacks harder to spot. […]

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Western governments lay the groundwork for secure 6G networks

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Western governments lay the groundwork for secure 6G networks 2026-03-06 at 08:02 By Sinisa Markovic Governments are preparing for 6G, the next generation of mobile networks, placing security and resilience among their top priorities. In response, seven countries participating in the Global Coalition on Telecoms (GCOT) have introduced a set of 6G Security and Resilience […]

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What happens when AI teams compete against human hackers

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What happens when AI teams compete against human hackers 2026-03-06 at 07:58 By Anamarija Pogorelec A cybersecurity competition produced what may be the largest controlled dataset comparing AI-augmented teams to human-only teams on professional-grade offensive security tasks. The event, called NeuroGrid, ran for 72 hours on the Hack The Box platform and drew 1,337 registered […]

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New infosec products of the week: March 6, 2026

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New infosec products of the week: March 6, 2026 2026-03-06 at 07:00 By Anamarija Pogorelec Here’s a look at the most interesting products from the past week, featuring releases from Beazley Security, Push Security, Samsung, and Tufin. Samsung brings Digital Home Key to Samsung Wallet, extending secure access to the home Samsung Electronics has announced […]

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Engineering trust: A security blueprint for autonomous AI agents

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Engineering trust: A security blueprint for autonomous AI agents 2026-03-05 at 07:06 By Help Net Security AI agents have evolved from just chatbots, answering questions to executing actions using various integrated tools, often autonomously, and as such the traditional security models have become less efficient. I have seen that firsthand as a security lead for […]

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Cybersecurity professionals are burning out on extra hours every week

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Cybersecurity professionals are burning out on extra hours every week 2026-03-04 at 08:30 By Mirko Zorz Cybersecurity professionals in the U.S. are working an average of 10.8 extra hours per week beyond their contracted schedules, according to survey data collected from 300 cybersecurity and IT leaders by Sapio Research. That figure effectively adds a sixth […]

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mquire: Open-source Linux memory forensics tool

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mquire: Open-source Linux memory forensics tool 2026-03-04 at 08:22 By Anamarija Pogorelec Linux memory forensics has long depended on debug symbols tied to specific kernel versions. These symbols are not installed on production systems by default, and sourcing them from external repositories creates a recurring problem: repositories go stale, kernel builds diverge, and analysts working […]

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Why workforce identity is still a vulnerability, and what to do about it

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Why workforce identity is still a vulnerability, and what to do about it 2026-03-04 at 07:43 By Help Net Security Most organizations believe they have workforce identity under control. New hires are verified. Accounts are provisioned. Multi-factor authentication is enforced. Audits are passed. Then a breach happens, often through an account that was “properly secured.” […]

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Cybersecurity is now the price of admission for industrial AI

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Cybersecurity is now the price of admission for industrial AI 2026-03-04 at 07:17 By Mirko Zorz Industrial organizations are accelerating AI deployment across manufacturing, utilities, and transportation and running straight into a security problem. Cisco’s 2026 State of Industrial AI Report, based on responses from more than 1,000 decision-makers across 19 countries, finds that cybersecurity […]

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Middle East on the Brink: Iran-US-Israel Hostilities Trigger Cyber-Kinetic Conflict

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Middle East on the Brink: Iran-US-Israel Hostilities Trigger Cyber-Kinetic Conflict 2026-03-03 at 19:46 By Ashish Khaitan The geopolitical landscape of the Middle East has entered one of its most volatile phases in decades. On February 28, 2026, tensions that had been simmering for years erupted into a full‑blown conflict involving the Islamic Republic of Iran, […]

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Cloudflare tracked 230 billion daily threats and here is what it found

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Cloudflare tracked 230 billion daily threats and here is what it found 2026-03-03 at 19:46 By Anamarija Pogorelec Cloudflare’s network blocks over 230 billion threats per day. The volume indicates how routine and automated the attack cycle has become, and the patterns behind that volume point to a shift in how breaches begin and progress. […]

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$100 radio equipment can track cars through their tire sensors

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$100 radio equipment can track cars through their tire sensors 2026-03-03 at 19:46 By Sinisa Markovic When people consider what might track their movements, they think of smartphone apps, GPS services, or roadside cameras. The tires of a new car rarely enter that equation. Researchers at IMDEA Networks Institute, together with European partners, found that […]

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5 years of shifting cybersecurity behavior

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5 years of shifting cybersecurity behavior 2026-03-03 at 08:20 By Anamarija Pogorelec Online security is built through routine decisions made across devices and accounts. People choose how to create passwords, how often to reuse them, and how much effort to invest in protecting personal data. The National Cybersecurity Alliance and CybSafe’s Oh, Behave! The Cybersecurity […]

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Healthcare organizations are accepting cyber risk to cut costs

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Healthcare organizations are accepting cyber risk to cut costs 2026-03-03 at 08:00 By Anamarija Pogorelec Healthcare organizations are cutting cybersecurity budgets under financial pressure even as the threats targeting their systems intensify. A PwC survey of 381 global healthcare executives, conducted between May and July 2025, puts numbers to the gap between the risks the […]

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IPFire ships its 200th core update with a new domain blocklist and kernel upgrade

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IPFire ships its 200th core update with a new domain blocklist and kernel upgrade 2026-03-02 at 18:31 By Anamarija Pogorelec Network firewall distribution IPFire released Core Update 200, marking the 200th incremental update to the 2.29 branch. The release bundles a kernel upgrade, a beta domain blocklist service, security patches for OpenSSL and glibc, and […]

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UK reduces cyberattack fix times from two months to eight days

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UK reduces cyberattack fix times from two months to eight days 2026-03-02 at 13:19 By Anamarija Pogorelec The UK government has launched a new vulnerability monitoring service (VMS) that promises to reduce the time needed to fix critical cyber weaknesses across the public sector. Scanning government systems for critical cyber flaws The service, launched as […]

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AI risk moves into the security budget spotlight

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AI risk moves into the security budget spotlight 2026-03-02 at 09:08 By Anamarija Pogorelec Enterprises are pushing AI deeper into workflows that touch sensitive data across cloud platforms and SaaS apps. The 2026 Thales Data Threat Report, based on a survey of 3,120 respondents in 20 countries, places that shift alongside growing pressure on data […]

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