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European AI adoption hits 99% with regulated data driving most policy violations

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European AI adoption hits 99% with regulated data driving most policy violations 2026-05-27 at 09:24 By Sinisa Markovic Generative AI tools operate inside nearly every European workplace, embedded in meeting transcription services, writing assistants, coding copilots, and search features. Workers in the region pull these tools into daily routines that involve customer records, financial information, […]

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What happens when security teams inherit identity

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What happens when security teams inherit identity 2026-05-26 at 13:38 By Sinisa Markovic At the Span Cyber Security Arena conference, I sat down with Eric Woodruff, Chief Identity Architect at Semperis, to talk about how organizations perceive identity and the challenges those perceptions create for security. He shared his perspective on where organizations struggle with

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Product showcase: F-Secure Internet Security blocks phishing sites, fake stores, and SMS scams

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Product showcase: F-Secure Internet Security blocks phishing sites, fake stores, and SMS scams 2026-05-26 at 08:37 By Anamarija Pogorelec F-Secure Internet Security protects against viruses, ransomware, spyware, infected email attachments, and other cyber threats. It focuses on securing devices and online activity through malware protection, scam prevention, safe browsing, and banking safeguards. The platform supports

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Cisco refines its risk-based vulnerability disclosure for the AI era

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Cisco refines its risk-based vulnerability disclosure for the AI era 2026-05-25 at 21:27 By Sinisa Markovic Security teams already struggle with long lists of vulnerabilities and limited time to patch them. Cisco believes AI could increase that pressure by accelerating vulnerability discovery and increasing the number of findings security teams need to review. The company

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Anthropic adds 28 security and compliance integrations for Claude

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Anthropic adds 28 security and compliance integrations for Claude 2026-05-25 at 21:27 By Sinisa Markovic AI tools are becoming part of everyday work in organizations, creating new security and oversight requirements as usage grows. To address that, Anthropic introduced 28 integrations with security and compliance tools that allow IT and security teams to manage Claude

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US states step up cyber defenses to protect local communities

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US states step up cyber defenses to protect local communities 2026-05-25 at 14:35 By Anamarija Pogorelec U.S. state governments are taking on a larger role in cybersecurity to help protect local communities and essential services. Many states are building state-led cyber defense programs, including cybersecurity clinics, regional security operations centers (RSOCs), and state cyber corps

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Lessons for organizations from the Verizon 2026 Data Breach Investigations Report

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Lessons for organizations from the Verizon 2026 Data Breach Investigations Report 2026-05-25 at 08:59 By Help Net Security This is my favourite time of the year, not just because spring is here and the promise of summer is on the way. But also, because one of my must reads each year gets published. There are

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OpenHack: Open-source AI-powered vulnerability research

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OpenHack: Open-source AI-powered vulnerability research 2026-05-25 at 08:11 By Sinisa Markovic Source-guided vulnerability research increasingly leans on coding harnesses such as Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor to drive agent-based reviews of application code. A new MIT-licensed project from the Dutch security firm Hadrian, called OpenHack, packages that approach into a file-based workspace that any of

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$20 per zero-day is already the WordPress plugin reality

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$20 per zero-day is already the WordPress plugin reality 2026-05-22 at 17:05 By Mirko Zorz Vulnerability researchers have spent the past year arguing about whether AI agents can find real bugs at scale or whether they mostly generate noise. A pipeline built in three days by researchers from TrendAI and CHT Security supplies an answer,

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The new economics of fraud: Cheaper, faster, more convincing

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The new economics of fraud: Cheaper, faster, more convincing 2026-05-22 at 08:29 By Anamarija Pogorelec Scams have become one of the fastest-growing consumer risks, driven by AI-enabled impersonation, social engineering, and sophisticated attack methods, according to Visa’s Spring 2026 Biannual Threats Report. Criminals redirect efforts toward trust and third parties Fraud involves behavioral manipulation, fragmented

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Why AI changed the threat model for travel technology

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Why AI changed the threat model for travel technology 2026-05-21 at 09:16 By Mirko Zorz In this Help Net Security interview, Devon Bryan, SVP, Global CSO at Booking Holdings, reflects on his path from Air Force network security engineer to global CSO across financial services, hospitality, and travel technology. He discusses why the travel industry’s

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AI red teaming agents change how LLMs get tested

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AI red teaming agents change how LLMs get tested 2026-05-21 at 08:00 By Mirko Zorz Adversarial probing of LLMs has piled up a sprawling toolkit over the past three years. Attack techniques with names like Tree of Attacks with Pruning, Crescendo, and Skeleton Key sit alongside hundreds of prompt transforms and scoring methods across open-source

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Communicating cyber risk in dollars boards understand

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Communicating cyber risk in dollars boards understand 2026-05-20 at 09:34 By Mirko Zorz In this Help Net Security interview, Nick Nieuwenhuis, Cybersecurity Architect at Nedscaper, explains why cybersecurity has not delivered the resilience that decades of investment have promised. He argues that spending has leaned too heavily on technical controls while neglecting people, processes, and

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When your AI assistant has the keys to production

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When your AI assistant has the keys to production 2026-05-20 at 09:34 By Sinisa Markovic Large language models in operational roles query telemetry, propose configuration changes, and in some deployments execute those changes against live infrastructure. Ticket drafting and alert summarization were the starting point. Vendors describe this work as autonomous remediation or self-healing infrastructure.

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What happens when your identity provider becomes the kill chain

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What happens when your identity provider becomes the kill chain 2026-05-20 at 09:34 By Help Net Security In this Help Net Security video, Colin Constable, CTO at Atsign, explains why your identity provider (IdP) has become the kill chain in cyberattacks. Attackers steal session cookies, tokens, or consent grants you’ve already issued and walk in

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Earbud sensors can authenticate users by their heartbeat, study finds

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Earbud sensors can authenticate users by their heartbeat, study finds 2026-05-19 at 09:17 By Mirko Zorz Researchers built a continuous authentication system called AccLock that identifies a wearer by the tiny vibrations a heartbeat makes inside the ear canal. The signal comes from an accelerometer of the kind already sitting inside many wireless earbuds, so

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The AI backdoor your security stack is not built to see

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The AI backdoor your security stack is not built to see 2026-05-18 at 09:42 By Sinisa Markovic Enterprises deploying LLMs have spent the past two years building defenses around a reasonable assumption: malicious behavior leaves a trace in the input. Scan for suspicious tokens, filter unusual characters, watch for prompt injection patterns. New research from

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AI shrinks vulnerability exploitation window to hours

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AI shrinks vulnerability exploitation window to hours 2026-05-18 at 09:42 By Anamarija Pogorelec Time has become organizations’ biggest vulnerability because the gap between vulnerability discovery and exploitation has narrowed to hours, according to Synack’s 2026 State of Vulnerabilities Report. Total vulnerabilities by severity (2022-2025) (Source: Synack) AI expands the attack surface Agentic AI systems that

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GCC Cyber 2026: How Digital Banking Expansion Is Creating a New Attack Surface Attackers Are Already Exploiting

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GCC Cyber 2026: How Digital Banking Expansion Is Creating a New Attack Surface Attackers Are Already Exploiting 2026-05-15 at 17:46 By Ashish Khaitan The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) region has spent the last several years building one of the world’s most ambitious digital economies. Across Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE, governments

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