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Accenture acknowledges security incident following 35GB data theft claim

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Accenture acknowledges security incident following 35GB data theft claim 2026-07-08 at 14:28 By Zeljka Zorz Accenture appears to have suffered a data breach, the extent of which is currently unknown. On Monday, a threat actor going by the handle “888” posted on the cybercrime forum PwnForums, claiming to have breached the technology consulting company and […]

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Orbia CISO Miranda Ritchie on building security into sustainable infrastructure

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Orbia CISO Miranda Ritchie on building security into sustainable infrastructure 2026-07-08 at 09:00 By Mirko Zorz In this interview with Help Net Security, Miranda Ritchie, CISO at Orbia, talks about protecting industrial systems where software runs water, chemical and manufacturing processes. She explains why a cyber incident in these settings can harm people, equipment and

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20 open-source cybersecurity tools to keep your team ready for anything

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20 open-source cybersecurity tools to keep your team ready for anything 2026-07-08 at 08:30 By Anamarija Pogorelec AI is changing how security teams find vulnerabilities, analyze code, test applications, and protect infrastructure. Developers are building tools to secure AI systems themselves, from coding agents and memory protection to model exposure discovery. This roundup covers recent

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macOS is becoming a proving ground for AI agents

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macOS is becoming a proving ground for AI agents 2026-07-08 at 08:00 By Sinisa Markovic Somewhere right now, a Mac Mini is sitting on a shelf doing someone’s chores. Nobody’s watching it. It reads a version number out of Terminal, hops over to Safari, digs up a release year, then quietly files a reminder, the

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How to implement a continuous offensive security testing program

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How to implement a continuous offensive security testing program 2026-07-08 at 07:30 By Help Net Security The hard part was never finding the exposure. It was deciding what to do about it: whether to patch, mitigate, monitor, or accept, and banking that that decision would still hold tomorrow. A penetration test answers this question for

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OpenAI and Anthropic are pulling in different directions

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OpenAI and Anthropic are pulling in different directions 2026-07-08 at 07:00 By Mirko Zorz Companies are handing routine operational decisions to AI agents that plan, remember, and act on their behalf. These agents run on statistical models, and their behavior can drift across weeks and months. That drift opens a security gap outside the reach

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Attackers exploit critical Adobe ColdFusion vulnerability (CVE-2026-48282)

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Attackers exploit critical Adobe ColdFusion vulnerability (CVE-2026-48282) 2026-07-07 at 15:03 By Zeljka Zorz CVE-2026-48282, one of the maximum severity vulnerabilities patched in Adobe ColdFusion on June 30, 2026, has been targeted by attackers in the wild. Exploitation attempts were detected on July 2, through the honeypot sensors of cybersecurity threat-intelligence service KEVIntel, mere minutes after

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Researchers make the case for a cybersecurity AI scientist

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Researchers make the case for a cybersecurity AI scientist 2026-07-07 at 09:30 By Mirko Zorz Autonomous AI agents have started doing real security work. Language-model agents probe software for flaws, run penetration tests, and chain together attack steps that once needed a human operator. Research about security has stayed slower and more manual, built around

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Your company already adopted AI and nobody is governing access

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Your company already adopted AI and nobody is governing access 2026-07-07 at 08:30 By Help Net Security In this Help Net Security video, Antoine Berton, CTO at Elba Security, breaks down the AI attack surface. Your company already adopted AI, and every adoption creates access that nobody governs. A quick click on a Friday afternoon

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Microsoft wants to keep your AI agents from going rogue

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Microsoft wants to keep your AI agents from going rogue 2026-07-07 at 07:45 By Anamarija Pogorelec Microsoft has introduced Microsoft Execution Containers (MXC), a cross-platform, policy-driven execution layer for AI agents on Windows and Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL), now available in early preview. Updated Agent 365 platform (Source: Microsoft) Developers can define constraints for

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How to prioritize AI agent security by business impact

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How to prioritize AI agent security by business impact 2026-07-06 at 09:30 By Help Net Security Your CEO calls about an AI agent security incident in finance. He wants to know whether money moved, whether financial data was exposed, who owned the agent and why it had this level of access. The agent was connected

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Securing the inbox: Where identity, brand and security meet

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Securing the inbox: Where identity, brand and security meet 2026-07-06 at 09:00 By Mirko Zorz Getting a verified logo to appear next to your email has traditionally meant having to work with two separate entities. You have to work with a DMARC partner for setting up DMARC and BIMI, then use a trusted Certificate Authority

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Omnigent: Open-source AI agent framework and meta-harness

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Omnigent: Open-source AI agent framework and meta-harness 2026-07-06 at 08:30 By Sinisa Markovic Plenty of developers now keep several coding agents close at hand, reaching for Claude Code on one task and Codex or Cursor on the next. Each tool arrives with its own command line, its own handling of credentials, and its own way

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Non-interactive SSH attacks dominate after login

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Non-interactive SSH attacks dominate after login 2026-07-03 at 08:30 By Sinisa Markovic Anyone who runs a server with SSH exposed to the internet sees the same pattern in the logs. A steady stream of automated scanners tries to log in, hour after hour, from addresses all over the world. The common picture of what comes

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Geopolitical cyber threats are turning HR into a security front line

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Geopolitical cyber threats are turning HR into a security front line 2026-07-03 at 08:00 By Help Net Security In this Help Net Security video, Roman Sannikov, Global Research Coordinator at iCOUNTER, explains why geopolitics belongs in every security team’s threat model. With open and simmering conflicts around the world, attacks can come from actors that

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The endpoint recovery gap many teams discover during an incident

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The endpoint recovery gap many teams discover during an incident 2026-07-02 at 09:00 By Mirko Zorz In this interview with Help Net Security, IGEL CTO Matthias Haas explains why backups alone do not equal recovery. He makes the case that endpoint recovery is often overlooked, leaving organizations exposed when thousands of devices go down at

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Catching ransomware on the wire before it locks the file server

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Catching ransomware on the wire before it locks the file server 2026-07-02 at 08:00 By Sinisa Markovic Corporate networks keep sensitive files off individual workstations and store them on shared servers that staff reach through mapped network drives. That arrangement hands ransomware operators a target worth chasing. A single compromised laptop can begin encrypting files

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The ARToken phishing panel targets Microsoft 365 accounts

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The ARToken phishing panel targets Microsoft 365 accounts 2026-07-01 at 13:00 By Sinisa Markovic Accounts-payable staff at U.S. companies keep receiving invoice emails that look like they come from vendors they already work with. One landed at a life-sciences company in April 2026, addressed to the person who handles payments and written in the voice

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What a financial planner taught me about cybersecurity

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What a financial planner taught me about cybersecurity 2026-07-01 at 09:30 By Help Net Security When I spoke at a recent cybersecurity awareness event for financial planners and tax advisors, the audience really engaged with the subject. As happens at conferences the world over, people often come up to speakers to ask follow-up questions, or

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