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Windows 11’s strongest security defenses can be bypassed without a screwdriver

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Windows 11’s strongest security defenses can be bypassed without a screwdriver 2026-08-17 at 08:30 By Sinisa Markovic Researchers from the University of Birmingham and Durham University have found a way to knock down some of the toughest protections in Windows 11 without physically opening or modifying the target machine. The attack assumes the attacker has […]

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Hazmat: Open-source containment for AI agents

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Hazmat: Open-source containment for AI agents 2026-08-17 at 08:00 By Anamarija Pogorelec Hazmat is an open-source tool that runs AI coding agents inside a separate account on your own machine. It wraps the harnesses people use: Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, Cursor Agent, and several more, plus any script you write yourself. An agent launched the […]

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Product showcase: ScamNet looks for warning signs in suspicious calls and shady links

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Product showcase: ScamNet looks for warning signs in suspicious calls and shady links 2026-08-17 at 07:30 By Anamarija Pogorelec ScamNet: Anti-Scam Suite is a consumer security app from Synaptrex Technologies that helps users detect and block scams involving phone calls, text messages, websites, and other suspicious content. The app is available for iPhone, iPad, and […]

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When companies get specific about AI, revenue growth looks different

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When companies get specific about AI, revenue growth looks different 2026-08-17 at 07:00 By Anamarija Pogorelec Companies that provide specific evidence of how they use AI tend to record stronger revenue growth. Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University and Larridin examined a study universe of 564 companies across 12 industry sectors. Individual analyses used smaller samples […]

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OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 Sol runs up to 14× faster with Ultrafast mode

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OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 Sol runs up to 14× faster with Ultrafast mode 2026-08-14 at 13:55 By Anamarija Pogorelec OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 Sol on Ultrafast mode is available in limited preview to a select group of customers, launching first through the OpenAI API. The company says the service runs up to 14 times faster than Standard processing and […]

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AWS Certificate Manager sets 2027 end date for email-validated certificate renewals

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AWS Certificate Manager sets 2027 end date for email-validated certificate renewals 2026-08-14 at 11:25 By Anamarija Pogorelec AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) will phase out email validation for public certificates throughout 2027, ahead of the Certification Authority/Browser (CA/B) Forum’s March 15, 2028 deadline for ending email-based domain validation. The CA/B Forum sets standards that browsers and […]

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The hardest part of agentic AI may be rebuilding the business

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The hardest part of agentic AI may be rebuilding the business 2026-08-14 at 08:30 By Anamarija Pogorelec Organizations expect AI agents to change how work gets done, driving productivity and growth while allowing employees to focus on higher-value tasks. Few, however, have the processes and workflows needed to realize those benefits, according to Deloitte’s latest […]

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Weak IAM affects up to 98% of cloud environments

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Weak IAM affects up to 98% of cloud environments 2026-08-14 at 08:00 By Anamarija Pogorelec Misconfiguration remains one of the leading threats to cloud environments because a single configuration error can result in public network access, unrotated keys, missing encryption, exposed services, and logging gaps. CISA now mandates baseline cloud configuration practices for US federal […]

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White House authorizes private US companies to hack foreign criminal networks

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White House authorizes private US companies to hack foreign criminal networks 2026-08-13 at 17:31 By Sinisa Markovic President Trump signed a National Security Presidential Memorandum on August 12 allowing vetted private companies to run offensive cyber operations against foreign threat actors, under the control and oversight of the US government. The post White House authorizes […]

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Four corporate investigation mistakes organizations make under pressure

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Four corporate investigation mistakes organizations make under pressure 2026-08-13 at 08:00 By Help Net Security In this Help Net Security video, Christine Gadsby, VP and Chief Security Advisor at BlackBerry, explains why corporate investigations go wrong before the forensic team arrives. The first hours matter more than leaders assume. Access gets granted, conversations start, and […]

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DDoS attacks hit record scale as 1 Tbps+ campaigns become more common

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DDoS attacks hit record scale as 1 Tbps+ campaigns become more common 2026-08-13 at 07:30 By Anamarija Pogorelec DDoS attacks grew in scale during the first half of 2026, bringing larger traffic floods, shorter attack durations, and increasingly automated campaigns. Cloudflare’s H1 2026 DDoS Threat Report shows threat actors relying on multi-vector techniques and large-scale […]

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Product showcase: Is this image real? Slop or Not investigates

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Product showcase: Is this image real? Slop or Not investigates 2026-08-13 at 07:00 By Anamarija Pogorelec Slop or Not is an AI text and image detector for iPhone and Mac that runs entirely offline, with no account required. It uses on-device AI models powered by the Apple Neural Engine to detect AI-generated content. According to […]

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A stranger has been reading Salesforce and ServiceNow portals worldwide for 17 months

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A stranger has been reading Salesforce and ServiceNow portals worldwide for 17 months 2026-08-12 at 16:51 By Mirko Zorz Most security stories start with something broken. This one starts with everything working as designed. Researchers at Reco have been tracking a campaign they call City-Forum, named after a domain registered in 2002, abandoned, and now […]

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Signal’s new security feature checks if your encrypted chats were tampered with

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Signal’s new security feature checks if your encrypted chats were tampered with 2026-08-12 at 16:47 By Sinisa Markovic Signal has introduced a feature called automatic key verification, giving users a new way to confirm that nobody has secretly interfered with their encrypted chats. “Signal is always end-to-end encrypted, and automatic key verification provides an additional, […]

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Chrome’s anti-abuse protections block 7 billion unwanted Android notifications daily

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Chrome’s anti-abuse protections block 7 billion unwanted Android notifications daily 2026-08-12 at 11:36 By Anamarija Pogorelec Google Chrome’s latest measures against abusive web push notifications include automatically revoking notification permissions for inactive and suspicious websites, helping reduce scams, phishing attempts, and other deceptive content. Abusive notifications (Source: Google) Chrome revokes notification permissions for websites users […]

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Post-quantum migration gets harder when every user holds a key

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Post-quantum migration gets harder when every user holds a key 2026-08-12 at 09:00 By Mirko Zorz In this Help Net Security interview, Christopher Smith, CEO of Quantus, discusses what cryptographic inventories turn up in banks and hospitals, including default passwords and admin keys still held by former employees. He explains where post-quantum key sizes break […]

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PentestGPT: Open-source automated penetration testing agentic framework

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PentestGPT: Open-source automated penetration testing agentic framework 2026-08-12 at 08:30 By Anamarija Pogorelec PentestGPT is an open-source penetration testing agent that points a large language model at a target and lets it work. In its default mode it runs recon, then exploit, then walkthrough, each stage feeding the next. Switch it to pentest mode and […]

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Malicious SIMs can hijack smartphones, steal files, and lock them onto 2G

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Malicious SIMs can hijack smartphones, steal files, and lock them onto 2G 2026-08-11 at 15:10 By Sinisa Markovic Researchers have found that compromised or malicious SIM cards can issue commands to some smartphones and cellular-connected devices, allowing attackers to steal information, disrupt communications, downgrade connections to 2G, and in some cases execute code. Tomasz Piotr […]

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Who will be the Stanislav Petrov in your organization?

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Who will be the Stanislav Petrov in your organization? 2026-08-11 at 09:00 By Help Net Security The recent news coverage of “rogue AI” systems hacking innocent companies reminded me of one of the world’s most unsung heroes and genuinely someone who may well have saved the world. In 1983, the USSR’s early warning systems reported […]

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An AI tool found 84 flaws in 5G network software and 23 of them still have no fix

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An AI tool found 84 flaws in 5G network software and 23 of them still have no fix 2026-08-11 at 08:30 By Mirko Zorz Researchers at Nanyang Technological University turned a set of AI agents loose on the software that runs 4G and 5G phone networks, and the agents came back with 84 security flaws […]

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