Email blind spots are back to bite security teams 2025-11-24 at 07:04 By Anamarija Pogorelec The threat landscape is forcing CISOs to rethink what they consider normal. The latest Cybersecurity Report 2026 by Hornetsecurity, based on analysis of more than 70 billion emails and broad threat telemetry, shows attackers adopting automation, AI driven social engineering, […]
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How one quick AI check can leak your company’s secrets 2025-11-21 at 08:30 By Help Net Security In this Help Net Security video, Dinesh Nagarajan, Global Partner, Cyber Security Services at IBM Consulting, walks through a situation in which an employee shared production source code with a public AI tool. The tool learned from the
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What insurers really look at in your identity controls 2025-11-21 at 08:30 By Anamarija Pogorelec Insurers judge organizations by the strength of their identity controls and by how consistently those controls are applied, according to a new Delinea report. CISOs are entering a market that rewards maturity and penalizes gaps that once passed without scrutiny.
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Convenience culture is breaking personal security 2025-11-21 at 08:30 By Anamarija Pogorelec AI is changing how scams are built, shared, and trusted. A new global survey from Bitdefender shows how far the problem has spread. AI is helping scams evolve faster than people can respond Over seven in ten consumers encountered some form of scam
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Google Play Store’s privacy practices still confuse Android users 2025-11-20 at 08:05 By Sinisa Markovic Privacy rules like GDPR and CCPA are meant to help app stores be clearer about how apps use your data. But in the Google Play Store, those privacy sections often leave people scratching their heads. A new study looks at
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BlueCodeAgent helps developers secure AI-generated code 2025-11-20 at 08:05 By Sinisa Markovic When AI models generate code, they deliver power and risk at the same time for security teams. That tension is at the heart of the new tool called BlueCodeAgent, designed to help developers and security engineers defend against code-generation threats. Why code generation
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The confidence trap holding security back 2025-11-20 at 07:37 By Anamarija Pogorelec Security leaders often feel prepared for a major cyber incident, but performance data shows a different reality. Teams continue to miss key steps during practice scenarios, and the gap between confidence and capability keeps growing. Findings from Immersive’s Cyber Workforce Benchmark Report show
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When IT fails, OT pays the price 2025-11-20 at 07:02 By Anamarija Pogorelec State groups, criminal crews, and hybrid operators are all using familiar IT entry points to reach systems that support industrial processes, according to the latest Operational Technology Threat Report from Trellix. The report covers attacks observed from April through September 2025 and
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Threat group reroutes software updates through hacked network gear 2025-11-19 at 12:02 By Sinisa Markovic Sometimes an attack hides in the most ordinary corner of a network. ESET researchers say a China aligned threat group known as PlushDaemon has been quietly using hacked routers to steer software updates toward its own servers. The discovery shows
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The long conversations that reveal how scammers work 2025-11-19 at 09:08 By Sinisa Markovic Online scammers often take weeks to build trust before making a move, which makes their work hard to study. A research team from UC San Diego built a system that does the patient work of talking to scammers at scale, and
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How to cut security tool sprawl without losing control 2025-11-19 at 07:58 By Help Net Security In this Help Net Security video, Jon Taylor, Director and Principal of Security at Versa Networks, talks about how organizations can deal with security tool sprawl. He explains why many teams end up with too many tools, especially as
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Agentic AI puts defenders on a tighter timeline to adapt 2025-11-18 at 08:44 By Anamarija Pogorelec Security teams know that attackers rarely wait for defenders to be ready. The latest AI Maturity in Cybersecurity Report from Arkose Labs shows how quickly the threat landscape is shifting and how slowly organizations can respond in comparison. Attackers
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The privacy panic around machine learning is overblown 2025-11-18 at 08:43 By Sinisa Markovic We often hear warnings about how machine learning (ML) models may expose sensitive information tied to their training data. The concern is understandable. If a model was trained on personal records, it may seem reasonable to assume that releasing it could
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The tech that turns supply chains from brittle to unbreakable 2025-11-17 at 16:32 By Mirko Zorz In this Help Net Security interview, Sev Kelian, CISO and VP of Security at Tecsys, discusses how organizations can strengthen supply chain resilience through a more unified and forward-looking strategy. Kelian also shares how new technologies and a blended
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The year ahead in cyber: What’s next for cybersecurity in 2026 2025-11-17 at 07:31 By Help Net Security In this Help Net Security video, Dick O’Brien, Principal Intelligence Analyst at Symantec, outlines the major cyber risks expected in 2026. He explains that attackers are often breaching networks by targeting people instead of exploiting software flaws.
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The next tech divide is written in AI diffusion 2025-11-17 at 07:05 By Anamarija Pogorelec AI is spreading faster than any major technology in history, according to a Microsoft report. More than 1.2 billion people have used an AI tool within three years of the first mainstream releases. The growth is fast, but it puts
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Why your security strategy is failing before it even starts 2025-11-14 at 09:25 By Mirko Zorz In this Help Net Security interview, Adnan Ahmed, CISO at Ornua, discusses how organizations can build a cybersecurity strategy that aligns with business goals. He explains why many companies stumble by focusing on technology before understanding risk and shares
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Los Alamos researchers warn AI may upend national security 2025-11-14 at 09:25 By Sinisa Markovic For decades, the United States has built its defense posture around predictable timelines for technological progress. That assumption no longer holds, according to researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory. Their paper argues that AI is advancing so quickly that the
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What happens when employees take control of AI 2025-11-14 at 07:42 By Anamarija Pogorelec Executives may debate AI strategy, but many of the advances are happening at the employee level. A recent Moveworks study shows that AI adoption is being led from the ground up, with employees, not senior leaders, driving the change. The research
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Healthcare security is broken because its systems can’t talk to each other 2025-11-13 at 09:39 By Mirko Zorz In this Help Net Security interview, Cameron Kracke, CISO at Prime Therapeutics, discusses how the healthcare ecosystem can achieve cohesive security visibility. With hospitals, clinics, telehealth, and cloud partners all in the mix, maintaining visibility remains a
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