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Bitdefender PHASR: Proactive hardening demo overview

Bitdefender PHASR: Proactive hardening demo overview 2025-07-14 at 08:35 By Help Net Security Discover how Bitdefender PHASR enables organizations to identify and remediate security misconfigurations before attackers can exploit them. This demo walks through PHASR’s proactive hardening capabilities, showing how it transforms visibility into actionable protection. The post Bitdefender PHASR: Proactive hardening demo overview appeared […]

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Critical Wing FTP Server vulnerability exploited in the wild (CVE-2025-47812)

Critical Wing FTP Server vulnerability exploited in the wild (CVE-2025-47812) 2025-07-11 at 15:32 By Zeljka Zorz Threat actors are actively exploiting a recently fixed remote code execution vulnerability (CVE-2025-47812) in Wing FTP Server, security researchers have warned. Wing FTP Server and CVE-2025-47812 Wing FTP Server is a commercial file transfer server solution used by businesses, […]

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Where policy meets profit: Navigating the new frontier of defense tech startups

Where policy meets profit: Navigating the new frontier of defense tech startups 2025-07-11 at 08:33 By Mirko Zorz In this Help Net Security interview, Thijs Povel, Managing Partner at Ventures.eu, discusses how the firm evaluates emerging technologies through the lens of defense and resilience. He explains how founders from both defense and adjacent sectors are […]

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Four arrested in connection with M&S, Co-op ransomware attacks

Four arrested in connection with M&S, Co-op ransomware attacks 2025-07-10 at 17:19 By Zeljka Zorz Four individuals suspected of having been involved in the ransomware attacks that hit UK-based retailers earlier this year have been arrested by the UK National Crime Agency. “Two males aged 19, another aged 17, and a 20-year-old female were apprehended […]

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Ruckus network management solutions riddled with unpatched vulnerabilities

Ruckus network management solutions riddled with unpatched vulnerabilities 2025-07-10 at 15:52 By Zeljka Zorz Claroty researcher Noam Moshe has discovered serious vulnerabilities in two Ruckus Networks (formerly Ruckus Wireless) products that may allow attackers to compromise the environments managed by the affected software, Carnegie Mellon University’s CERT Coordination Center (CERT/CC) has warned. The vulnerabilities have […]

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What EU’s PQC roadmap means on the ground

What EU’s PQC roadmap means on the ground 2025-07-10 at 09:11 By Mirko Zorz In this Help Net Security interview, David Warburton, Director at F5 Labs, discusses how the EU’s Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC) roadmap aligns with global efforts and addresses both the technical and regulatory challenges of migrating to PQC. Warburton also outlines practical steps […]

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Open source has a malware problem, and it’s getting worse

Open source has a malware problem, and it’s getting worse 2025-07-10 at 08:27 By Help Net Security Sonatype has published its Q2 2025 Open Source Malware Index, identifying 16,279 malicious open source packages across major ecosystems such as npm and PyPI. This brings the total number of malware packages discovered by the company to 845,204. […]

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Train smarter, respond faster: Close the skill gaps in your SOC

Train smarter, respond faster: Close the skill gaps in your SOC 2025-07-09 at 16:05 By Zeljka Zorz “In today’s fast-paced digital landscape” – as AI chatbots are fond of phrasing it – a cyber attack targeting your organization is a statistical certainty. But is your security team ready to respond when it happens? Can they […]

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Microsoft fixes critical wormable Windows flaw (CVE-2025-47981)

Microsoft fixes critical wormable Windows flaw (CVE-2025-47981) 2025-07-09 at 14:31 By Zeljka Zorz For July 2025 Patch Tuesday, Microsoft has released patches for 130 vulnerabilities, among them one that’s publicly disclosed (CVE-2025-49719) and a wormable RCE bug on Windows and Windows Server (CVE-2025-47981). CVE-2025-49719 and CVE-2025-49717, in Microsoft SQL Server CVE-2025-49719 is an uninitialized memory […]

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Why your security team feels stuck

Why your security team feels stuck 2025-07-09 at 08:44 By Mirko Zorz Cybersecurity friction usually gets framed as a user problem: password policies that frustrate employees, MFA that slows down logins, or blocked apps that send workers into the arms of shadow IT. But there’s a different kind of friction happening behind the scenes, and […]

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It’s time to give AI security its own playbook and the people to run it

It’s time to give AI security its own playbook and the people to run it 2025-07-09 at 08:04 By Mirko Zorz In this Help Net Security interview, Dr. Nicole Nichols, Distinguished Engineer in Machine Learning Security at Palo Alto Networks, discusses why existing security models need to evolve to address the risks of AI agents. […]

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Kanvas: Open-source incident response case management tool

Kanvas: Open-source incident response case management tool 2025-07-09 at 07:31 By Mirko Zorz Kanvas is an open-source incident response case management tool with a simple desktop interface, built in Python. It gives investigators a place to work with SOD (Spreadsheet of Doom) or similar files, so they can handle key tasks without jumping between different […]

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6 eye-opening books on AI’s rise, risks, and realities

6 eye-opening books on AI’s rise, risks, and realities 2025-07-09 at 07:02 By Anamarija Pogorelec AI is changing how we detect, prevent, and respond to cyber threats. From traditional networks to emerging spaces, it is shaping security operations, identity management, and threat response. This collection of AI books offers diverse perspectives, including practical implementations, strategic […]

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Check for CitrixBleed 2 exploitation even if you patched quickly! (CVE-2025-5777)

Check for CitrixBleed 2 exploitation even if you patched quickly! (CVE-2025-5777) 2025-07-08 at 18:32 By Zeljka Zorz With PoC exploits for CVE-2025-5777 (aka CitrixBleed 2) now public and reports of active exploitation of the flaw since mid-June, you should check whether your Citrix NetScaler ADC and/or Gateway instances have been probed and compromised by attackers. […]

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Exposure management is the answer to: “Am I working on the right things?”

Exposure management is the answer to: “Am I working on the right things?” 2025-07-08 at 09:07 By Mirko Zorz In this Help Net Security interview, Dan DeCloss, Founder and CTO at PlexTrac, discusses the role of exposure management in cybersecurity and how it helps organizations gain visibility into their attack surface to improve risk assessment […]

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Cyberattacks are changing the game for major sports events

Cyberattacks are changing the game for major sports events 2025-07-08 at 08:32 By Sinisa Markovic Sports fans and cybercriminals both look forward to major sporting events, but for very different reasons. Fake ticket sites, stolen login details, and DDoS attacks are common ways criminals try to make money or disrupt an event. Why are sports […]

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Can your security stack handle AI that thinks for itself?

Can your security stack handle AI that thinks for itself? 2025-07-08 at 08:03 By Help Net Security In this Help Net Security video, Art Poghosyan, CEO at Britive, explores the rise of agentic AI and its impact on identity security. As autonomous AI agents begin to think, act, and interact more like humans, traditional identity […]

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July 2025 Patch Tuesday forecast: Take a break from the grind

July 2025 Patch Tuesday forecast: Take a break from the grind 2025-07-07 at 09:33 By Help Net Security There was a barrage of updates released the week of June 2025 Patch Tuesday. This included security updates from Adobe, Google, Microsoft, Mozilla, and others. But it has been ‘calm’ the past couple of weeks. The news […]

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AI built it, but can you trust it?

AI built it, but can you trust it? 2025-07-07 at 09:02 By Mirko Zorz In this Help Net Security interview, John Morello, CTO at Minimus, discusses the security risks in AI-driven development, where many dependencies are pulled in quickly. He explains why it’s hard to secure software stacks that no one fully understands. He also […]

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Aegis Authenticator: Free, open-source 2FA app for Android

Aegis Authenticator: Free, open-source 2FA app for Android 2025-07-07 at 08:34 By Help Net Security Aegis Authenticator is an open-source 2FA app for Android that helps you manage login codes for your online accounts. The app features strong encryption and the ability to back up your data. It supports both HOTP and TOTP, so it […]

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