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Amazon Quick authorization bypass let users reach blocked AI chat agents

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Amazon Quick authorization bypass let users reach blocked AI chat agents 2026-05-12 at 20:12 By Mirko Zorz Enterprises running Amazon Quick, the AWS business intelligence and agentic AI service, rely on a feature called custom permissions to restrict who inside an account can use AI chat agents. Fog Security founder Jason Kao discovered that those […]

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Download: The IT and security field guide to AI adoption

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Download: The IT and security field guide to AI adoption 2026-05-12 at 17:35 By Help Net Security Security and IT teams are under pressure to adopt AI, but many are seeing the opposite of what was promised. Tools that demo well don’t hold up in real workflows. Complexity increases. Trust breaks down. And instead of […]

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JetBrains TeamCity vulnerability allows privilege escalation, API exposure (CVE-2026-44413)

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JetBrains TeamCity vulnerability allows privilege escalation, API exposure (CVE-2026-44413) 2026-05-12 at 17:35 By Zeljka Zorz JetBrains has patched a high-severity vulnerability (CVE-2026-44413) in TeamCity, its popular continuous integration and continuous delivery platform, and is urging organizations with on-premises and self-managed deployments to upgrade to the fixed version or implement a security patch. About CVE-2026-44413 CVE-2026-44413 […]

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HEIDI: Free IDE security plugin for open-source vulnerability checks

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HEIDI: Free IDE security plugin for open-source vulnerability checks 2026-05-12 at 09:28 By Mirko Zorz Open-source dependencies make up a large percentage of the code in production applications, and most vulnerability checks still run late in the pipeline, inside CI/CD systems or after a release ships. Meterian is moving those checks earlier with HEIDI, a […]

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The hidden smart fridge risks that emerge years after purchase

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The hidden smart fridge risks that emerge years after purchase 2026-05-12 at 09:28 By Mirko Zorz Household refrigerators are built to last more than a decade. The software, cloud services, and mobile apps that control them are not. A new analysis from Erik Buchmann at Leipzig University maps what happens when those two timelines collide, […]

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Linux developers weigh emergency “killswitch” for vulnerable kernel functions

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Linux developers weigh emergency “killswitch” for vulnerable kernel functions 2026-05-11 at 16:48 By Zeljka Zorz Linux kernel developers are reviewing a proposal for an emergency risk mitigation mechanism (“Killswitch”) that would allow administrators to disable vulnerable kernel functions at runtime. The proposal, submitted by Linux kernel developer/maintainer Sasha Levin, arrives in the wake of the […]

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Google researchers uncover criminal zero-day exploit likely built with AI

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Google researchers uncover criminal zero-day exploit likely built with AI 2026-05-11 at 16:48 By Mirko Zorz Google’s threat intelligence researchers have linked a zero-day exploit to AI-assisted development by a criminal group. The exploit targeted a popular open-source web-based system administration tool. It allowed attackers to bypass two-factor authentication once they had valid user credentials. […]

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Rustinel: Open-source endpoint detection for Windows and Linux

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Rustinel: Open-source endpoint detection for Windows and Linux 2026-05-11 at 08:51 By Mirko Zorz Open-source endpoint detection has long been split between Windows-focused tools built around Sysmon and Linux tools built around eBPF or auditd. Defenders running mixed environments have had to stitch together separate pipelines, separate rule sets, and separate maintenance burdens. Rustinel, a […]

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Review: Foundations of Cybersecurity, 2nd edition

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Review: Foundations of Cybersecurity, 2nd edition 2026-05-11 at 08:18 By Mirko Zorz Jason Andress has refreshed his introductory security text for No Starch Press. He writes in the introduction that the term security now extends past data center servers to cloud resources, mobile devices, the Internet of Things, and AI. About the author Jason Andress […]

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Dirty Frag: Unpatched Linux vulnerability delivers root access

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Dirty Frag: Unpatched Linux vulnerability delivers root access 2026-05-08 at 18:03 By Zeljka Zorz A week after Copy Fail, another Linux local privilege escalation vulnerability dubbed “Dirty Frag” has been revealed, along with a PoC exploit. What is Dirty Frag In effect, Dirty Frag refers to two flaws: A xfrm-ESP Page-Cache Write vulnerability (CVE-2026-43284, aka […]

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Ivanti EPMM vulnerability exploited in zero-day attacks (CVE-2026-6973)

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Ivanti EPMM vulnerability exploited in zero-day attacks (CVE-2026-6973) 2026-05-08 at 13:30 By Zeljka Zorz Ivanti has released fixes for 5 high-severity vulnerabilities in its Endpoint Manager Mobile (EPMM) solution, one of which (CVE-2026-6973) has being exploited as a zero-day by attackers. “We are aware of a very limited number of customers exploited with CVE-2026-6973,” the […]

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Product showcase: NetGuard open-source firewall for Android

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Product showcase: NetGuard open-source firewall for Android 2026-05-08 at 08:17 By Anamarija Pogorelec NetGuard is a free, open-source firewall for Android phones and tablets that provides users with a simple way to block internet access. Android does not allow VPN services to be chained, so the app uses the Android VPN service to route all […]

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What Mozilla learned running an AI security bug hunting pipeline on Firefox

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What Mozilla learned running an AI security bug hunting pipeline on Firefox 2026-05-08 at 01:14 By Mirko Zorz Over the past several months, Mozilla ran an agentic harness powered by Claude Mythos Preview across Firefox’s source code, identifying 271 security bugs that were fixed in Firefox 150, with additional fixes shipped in versions 149.0.2 and […]

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One keypress is all it takes to compromise four AI coding tools

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One keypress is all it takes to compromise four AI coding tools 2026-05-08 at 01:14 By Mirko Zorz Developers clone unfamiliar repositories all the time. Open-source projects, work from teammates, sample code from a tutorial, a library someone recommended on a forum. The convention is old and reasonable: you look at what’s inside before you […]

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State-sponsored hackers likely behind zero-day attacks on Palo Alto firewalls

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State-sponsored hackers likely behind zero-day attacks on Palo Alto firewalls 2026-05-08 at 01:14 By Zeljka Zorz Palo Alto Networks believes the in-the-wild exploitation of a zero-day vulnerability (CVE-2026-0300) in its firewalls is likely the work of state-sponsored threat actors. A flaw with no patch (yet) CVE-2026-0300 is a buffer overflow vulnerability in the User-ID Authentication […]

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Can your coding style predict whether your code is vulnerable?

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Can your coding style predict whether your code is vulnerable? 2026-05-05 at 13:21 By Sinisa Markovic Developers leave fingerprints in the code they write. Naming choices, indentation patterns, preferred APIs, and the way someone structures a loop or handles a pointer all carry traces of individual habit. Researchers have used these stylistic signals for years […]

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Critical MOVEit Automation auth bypass vulnerability fixed (CVE-2026-4670)

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Critical MOVEit Automation auth bypass vulnerability fixed (CVE-2026-4670) 2026-05-04 at 18:59 By Zeljka Zorz Progress Software has fixed a critical authentication bypass (CVE-2026-4670) and a privilege escalation (CVE-2026-5174) vulnerability in MOVEit Automation, exploitation of which “may lead to unauthorized access, administrative control, and data exposure.” The vulnerabilities were reported privately by Airbus researchers and there’s […]

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Pipelock: Open-source AI agent firewall

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Pipelock: Open-source AI agent firewall 2026-05-04 at 09:46 By Mirko Zorz AI coding agents run with shell access, environment variables containing API keys, and unrestricted internet connectivity, creating a single point of failure where one compromised tool call can leak credentials to an attacker-controlled domain. Pipelock, an open-source security harness developed by Joshua Waldrep under […]

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Spotting third-party cyber risk before attackers do

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Spotting third-party cyber risk before attackers do 2026-05-04 at 09:46 By Help Net Security In this Help Net Security video, Jeffrey Wheatman, SVP and Cyber Strategist at Black Kite, discusses how organizations can identify and manage third-party cyber exposures before attackers exploit them. He argues that businesses should move beyond a data-loss mindset toward one […]

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Download: Automating Pentest Delivery Guide

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Download: Automating Pentest Delivery Guide 2026-05-01 at 18:21 By Help Net Security Pentesting remains one of the most effective ways to identify real-world weaknesses, but the method for delivering results hasn’t evolved. Manual workflows involving static documents and email threads introduce delays, create inefficiencies, and diminish the value of the work. This guide on Automating […]

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