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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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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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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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The AI criminal mastermind is already hiring on gig platforms

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The AI criminal mastermind is already hiring on gig platforms 2026-04-27 at 10:30 By Mirko Zorz Labor-hire platforms let anyone with a credit card post a task and pay a stranger to complete it. The RentAHuman platform extends that model to AI agents through a Model Context Protocol server, allowing an agent to post gigs […]

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AI is speeding up nation-state cyber programs

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AI is speeding up nation-state cyber programs 2026-04-24 at 08:40 By Mirko Zorz Im this Help Net Security interview, Kaja Ciglic, Senior Director, Cybersecurity Policy and Diplomacy at Microsoft, discusses how nation-state cyber programs have changed over three years. Cyber has become a core instrument of state power, integrated with military, economic, and diplomatic tools. […]

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A year in, Zoom’s CISO reflects on balancing security and business

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A year in, Zoom’s CISO reflects on balancing security and business 2026-04-23 at 09:47 By Mirko Zorz In this Help Net Security interview, Sandra McLeod, CISO at Zoom, reflects on her first year in the role. She talks about moving from reactive firefighting to business strategy, and what she heard from engineers, the board, and […]

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GDPR works, but only where someone enforces it

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GDPR works, but only where someone enforces it 2026-04-23 at 07:32 By Sinisa Markovic A new measurement study of web tracking across ten countries offers a reality check for anyone working on privacy compliance. Researchers crawled the same set of globally popular websites from virtual machines located in Australia, Brazil, Canada, Germany, India, Singapore, South […]

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North Korea tied to heists worth $578M in April after Kelp DAO exploit

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North Korea tied to heists worth $578M in April after Kelp DAO exploit 2026-04-22 at 16:42 By Cointelegraph by Yohan Yun DPRK-linked crypto theft topped $578M in April after the Kelp DAO exploit, as attacks continue to expand across protocols, companies and end users. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

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Stablecoins behave like FX markets as liquidity splits: Eco CEO

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Stablecoins behave like FX markets as liquidity splits: Eco CEO 2026-04-18 at 15:33 By Cointelegraph by Yohan Yun Stablecoins promise seamless dollar movement, but fragmented liquidity is turning large transfers into complex execution problems, says Eco CEO Ryne Saxe. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

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Coordinated vulnerability disclosure is now an EU obligation, but cultural change takes time

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Coordinated vulnerability disclosure is now an EU obligation, but cultural change takes time 2026-04-15 at 10:02 By Mirko Zorz In this Help Net Security interview, Nuno Rodrigues Carvalho, Head of Sector for Incident and Vulnerability Services at ENISA, discusses the recent CVE funding scare and what it exposed about the fragility of global vulnerability disclosure […]

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Agentic AI memory attacks spread across sessions and users, and most organizations aren’t ready

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Agentic AI memory attacks spread across sessions and users, and most organizations aren’t ready 2026-04-14 at 09:15 By Mirko Zorz In this Help Net Security interview, Idan Habler, AI Security Researcher at Cisco, breaks down a threat most security teams haven’t named yet: agentic memory as an attack surface. Habler walks through MemoryTrap, a disclosed […]

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Fixing vulnerability data quality requires fixing the architecture first

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Fixing vulnerability data quality requires fixing the architecture first 2026-04-13 at 09:02 By Mirko Zorz In this Help Net Security interview, Art Manion, Deputy Director at Tharros, examines why vulnerability data across repositories stays inconsistent and hard to trust. The problem starts with systems not designed to collect or manage that data well. They introduce […]

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Bringing governance and visibility to machine and AI identities

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Bringing governance and visibility to machine and AI identities 2026-04-13 at 07:32 By Mirko Zorz In this Help Net Security interview, Archit Lohokare, CEO of AppViewX, explains how the rise of AI marked a turning point where machine and AI agent identities began converging into a single problem. Drawing on his experience across IBM and […]

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Reality of AI’s impact on employment clashes with C-suite optimism

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Reality of AI’s impact on employment clashes with C-suite optimism 2026-04-11 at 17:06 By Cointelegraph by Aaron Wood While some proponents believe AI will bring about an employment boom, so far its effect has been to dampen entry-level hiring while delivering mixed results on productivity. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original […]

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Health insurance lead sites sell personal data within seconds of form submission

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Health insurance lead sites sell personal data within seconds of form submission 2026-04-10 at 08:57 By Mirko Zorz Lead generation websites that offer health insurance quotes collect sensitive personal data and sell it to multiple buyers within seconds of a user clicking submit. A study by researchers at UC Davis, Stanford University, and Maastricht University […]

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What vibe hunting gets right about AI threat hunting, and where it breaks down

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What vibe hunting gets right about AI threat hunting, and where it breaks down 2026-04-10 at 08:57 By Mirko Zorz In this Help Net Security interview, Aqsa Taylor, Chief Security Evangelist, Exaforce, explains vibe hunting, an AI-driven approach to threat detection that inverts traditional hypothesis-driven methods. Instead of analysts defining attack vectors upfront, the AI […]

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AI agent intent is a starting point, not a security strategy

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AI agent intent is a starting point, not a security strategy 2026-04-09 at 08:53 By Mirko Zorz In this Help Net Security video, Itamar Apelblat, CEO of Token Security, walks through findings from the company’s research, which shows that 65% of agentic chatbots have never been used yet still hold live access credentials. He explains […]

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