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Encrypted DNS still tells an eavesdropper where to look

Encrypted DNS still tells an eavesdropper where to look 2026-06-22 at 08:00 By Mirko Zorz Encrypted DNS runs across much of the Internet. DNS over TLS, HTTPS, and QUIC keep the contents of a query away from anyone watching a network link. The encryption covers the message inside each packet. The packet still carries plaintext […]

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Crypto industry looks to stablecoins and DeFi revisions in MiCA 2.0

Crypto industry looks to stablecoins and DeFi revisions in MiCA 2.0 2026-06-20 at 17:57 By Aaron Wood The European Commission is seeking comment on how it can tweak MiCA, its regulatory framework for the crypto and blockchain industries. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

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Your browser tab could become encrypted storage for someone else’s files

Your browser tab could become encrypted storage for someone else’s files 2026-06-19 at 08:30 By Mirko Zorz Decentralized storage networks already hand pieces of people’s data to strangers’ machines. The lasting question across these networks is whether the machine holding the data can read it. A research paper by Gregory Magarshak, a professor at IENYC,

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Securing digital keys when your phone unlocks the car

Securing digital keys when your phone unlocks the car 2026-06-18 at 09:00 By Mirko Zorz In this interview with Help Net Security, Alysia Johnson, President of the Car Connectivity Consortium (CCC), explains how the CCC Digital Key has grown from a single-brand feature into a standard meant to work across phones, automakers, and suppliers. She

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SpaceX’s debut: A win for crypto price discovery, a fail for tokenized access

SpaceX’s debut: A win for crypto price discovery, a fail for tokenized access 2026-06-16 at 17:00 By Christina Comben SpaceX’s blockbuster debut didn’t just mint a trillionaire; it became a real-world stress test for crypto’s promise of democratized market access. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

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Reachability makes AI threat modeling worth the trust

Reachability makes AI threat modeling worth the trust 2026-06-16 at 09:00 By Mirko Zorz In this interview with Help Net Security, Oscar Andersson, CTO at Oplane, explains why most scanning tools fail. They cry wolf, flagging threats that cannot run in real code. The argument centers on reachability. A finding counts only when someone walks

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Onspring CISO on where automated GRC systems fall short

Onspring CISO on where automated GRC systems fall short 2026-06-15 at 09:00 By Mirko Zorz In this interview with Help Net Security, Nichole Windholz, CISO at Onspring, talks about the limits of automated GRC systems and continuous control monitoring. She explains why color-coded dashboards can hide nuance, how teams can check the data feeding their

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A hardware neural network backdoor that hides in plain sight

A hardware neural network backdoor that hides in plain sight 2026-06-15 at 08:00 By Mirko Zorz Deep learning systems on phones, cars, and other edge devices increasingly run on custom silicon. Specialized chips such as FPGAs and ASICs give these systems the speed and low power consumption that edge applications need. Many of these chips

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Proving what a military AI model will do is the real problem

Proving what a military AI model will do is the real problem 2026-06-15 at 07:30 By Sinisa Markovic Defense contractors build AI systems that task drones automatically and propose kill-chains to support soldiers. Several of these contractors have partnered with frontier AI companies to put advanced models into military tools. Anduril works with OpenAI, Palantir

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AI deepfake election ad in Minnesota raises transparency concerns

AI deepfake election ad in Minnesota raises transparency concerns 2026-06-10 at 18:17 By Cointelegraph by Aaron Wood A deepfake campaign attack ad in the US state of Minnesota has raised questions around the ethics of using AI in political ads and the regulations surround AI use. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View

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The security in smartphones is helping send them to landfills

The security in smartphones is helping send them to landfills 2026-06-10 at 09:55 By Mirko Zorz Billions of working smartphones reach the end of their service lives each year and move into drawers, recycling streams, and waste piles. The WEEE Forum estimated that 5.3 billion mobile phones became electronic waste in 2022. Many of these

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Malware ships with bugs that defenders could use against it

Malware ships with bugs that defenders could use against it 2026-06-09 at 08:46 By Anamarija Pogorelec Static analysis tools have spent years scanning legitimate software for security bugs before it goes out the door. The same scanners work on malware, and malware carries a steady supply of its own bugs. Researchers ran four of these

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Treating AI agents like service accounts for federated query security

Treating AI agents like service accounts for federated query security 2026-06-09 at 08:46 By Mirko Zorz In this interview with Help Net Security, Paras Malhotra, CISO at Starburst, explains how the company handles data governance across federated query environments. Topics include layering Starburst’s access controls above native source permissions, tiering vendor risk across more than

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Spotless compliance evidence can still hide a broken control

Spotless compliance evidence can still hide a broken control 2026-06-04 at 09:26 By Mirko Zorz In this interview with Help Net Security, Marc Rubbinaccio, Head of Cybersecurity and Compliance at Secureframe, explains where security teams go wrong when preparing for CMMC and FedRAMP 20x. The conversation covers how organizations check the 110 requirements but miss

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Only 11% of production agents pass the AI agent security bar

Only 11% of production agents pass the AI agent security bar 2026-06-03 at 14:00 By Mirko Zorz Enterprise teams are running AI agents that write code, drive browsers, answer customer calls, manage cloud infrastructure, and query data warehouses with standing credentials. A new independent assessment of 100 production agents finds that nearly all of them

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Zero trust physical security needs trust decisions at the edge

Zero trust physical security needs trust decisions at the edge 2026-06-02 at 09:09 By Mirko Zorz In this interview with Help Net Security, Chuck Davis, VP, Global Information Security at Hikvision, explains how zero trust applies to physical security systems like cameras and door controllers. He breaks down how to make trust decisions at the

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Data discovery gaps that catch enterprises off guard

Data discovery gaps that catch enterprises off guard 2026-06-01 at 11:46 By Mirko Zorz In this interview with Help Net Security, Avani Desai, CEO at Schellman, talks about the gap between what organizations think they know about their data and what discovery scans turn up. She shares stories of shadow data in abandoned cloud storage,

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EU organizations buckle under rising compliance pressure

EU organizations buckle under rising compliance pressure 2026-06-01 at 08:19 By Sinisa Markovic Cybersecurity governance in the EU is shifting under expanding frameworks such as NIS2 and DORA, while AI raises new questions for security teams. What the future brings is hard to predict, and organizations must find a way to cope. Antonija Vojnović, Governance,

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The CISO selling confidence in a market full of breach headlines

The CISO selling confidence in a market full of breach headlines 2026-05-28 at 10:16 By Mirko Zorz Engineering teams across enterprise IT are writing their own software with AI coding assistants, spinning up agents that act on their behalf, and assigning those agents the same access privileges their human creators hold. The shift has pulled

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Coinflow CISO on crypto payments security under AI pressure

Coinflow CISO on crypto payments security under AI pressure 2026-05-27 at 09:24 By Mirko Zorz Crypto payment firms sit near the top of the target list for advanced persistent threat groups, and the workload on their security leaders keeps growing. Malcolm Portelli, CISO at Coinflow, runs the company’s security program from Malta. Coinflow is headquartered

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