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AI’s split personality: Solving crimes while helping conceal them

AI’s split personality: Solving crimes while helping conceal them 2025-10-21 at 08:52 By Sinisa Markovic What happens when investigators and cybercriminals start using the same technology? AI is now doing both, helping law enforcement trace attacks while also being tested for its ability to conceal them. A new study from the University of Cagliari digs […]

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AI-generated images have a problem of credibility, not creativity

AI-generated images have a problem of credibility, not creativity 2025-10-13 at 08:34 By Sinisa Markovic GenAI simplifies image creation, yet it creates hard problems around intellectual property, authenticity, and accountability. Researchers at Queen’s University in Canada examined watermarking as a way to tag AI images so origin and integrity can be checked. Watermarking scenario overview

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Protegrity Developer Edition: Free containerized Python package to secure AI pipelines

Protegrity Developer Edition: Free containerized Python package to secure AI pipelines 2025-10-03 at 09:39 By Help Net Security Protegrity Developer Edition enables developers, data scientists, ML engineers, and security teams an easy way to add data protection into GenAI and unstructured data workflows, without the need for enterprise setup. Billed as the first enterprise-grade, governance-focused

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GenAI is exposing sensitive data at scale

GenAI is exposing sensitive data at scale 2025-09-25 at 07:46 By Anamarija Pogorelec Sensitive data is everywhere and growing fast. A new report from Concentric AI highlights how unstructured data, duplicate files, and risky sharing practices are creating serious problems for security teams. The findings show how generative AI tools like Microsoft Copilot are adding

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AI agents are here, now comes the hard part for CISOs

AI agents are here, now comes the hard part for CISOs 2025-09-10 at 07:40 By Mirko Zorz AI agents are being deployed inside enterprises today to handle tasks across security operations. This shift creates new opportunities for security teams but also introduces new risks. Google Cloud’s new report, The ROI of AI 2025, shows that

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AI moves fast, but data security must move faster

AI moves fast, but data security must move faster 2025-09-08 at 07:03 By Anamarija Pogorelec Generative AI is showing up everywhere in the enterprise, from customer service chatbots to marketing campaigns. It promises speed and innovation, but it also brings new and unfamiliar security risks. As companies rush to adopt these tools, many are discovering

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GenAI is fueling smarter fraud, but broken teamwork is the real problem

GenAI is fueling smarter fraud, but broken teamwork is the real problem 2025-09-01 at 08:03 By Anamarija Pogorelec More than 80 percent of large U.S. companies were targeted by socially engineered fraud in the past year, according to Trustmi’s 2025 Socially Engineered Fraud & Risk Report. Nearly half of those organizations reported a direct financial

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How CISOs are balancing risk, pressure and board expectations

How CISOs are balancing risk, pressure and board expectations 2025-08-28 at 07:05 By Sinisa Markovic AI has moved to the top of the CISO agenda. Three in five CISOs see generative AI as a security risk, with many worried about sensitive data leaking through public tools. At the same time, most organizations are not blocking

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Review: Adversarial AI Attacks, Mitigations, and Defense Strategies

Review: Adversarial AI Attacks, Mitigations, and Defense Strategies 2025-08-25 at 07:50 By Mirko Zorz Adversarial AI Attacks, Mitigations, and Defense Strategies shows how AI systems can be attacked and how defenders can prepare. It’s essentially a walkthrough of offensive and defensive approaches to AI security. About the author John Sotiropoulos is the Head Of AI

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Local governments struggle to defend critical infrastructure as threats grow

Local governments struggle to defend critical infrastructure as threats grow 2025-08-22 at 08:03 By Sinisa Markovic A small-town water system, a county hospital, and a local school district may not seem like front-line targets in global conflict, but they are. These organizations face daily cyber attacks, from ransomware to foreign adversaries probing for weak points.

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How security teams are putting AI to work right now

How security teams are putting AI to work right now 2025-08-18 at 09:42 By Mirko Zorz AI is moving from proof-of-concept into everyday security operations. In many SOCs, it is now used to cut down alert noise, guide analysts during investigations, and speed up incident response. What was once seen as experimental technology is starting

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Fighting fraud with AI: The new identity security playbook

Fighting fraud with AI: The new identity security playbook 2025-08-15 at 08:34 By Help Net Security In this Help Net Security video, Hal Lonas, CTO at Trulioo, talks about the rise of synthetic identity fraud and how it’s quickly becoming one of the biggest threats in financial crime. He breaks down how fraudsters are using

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Employees race to build custom AI apps despite security risks

Employees race to build custom AI apps despite security risks 2025-08-15 at 07:37 By Help Net Security The latest Netskope findings show a 50% increase in GenAI platform usage among enterprise end-users, driven by growing employee demand for tools to develop custom AI applications and agents. Top LLM interfaces by percentage in organizations (source: Netskope)

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Free courses: Master AI tools from Microsoft, AWS, and Google

Free courses: Master AI tools from Microsoft, AWS, and Google 2025-08-14 at 07:32 By Anamarija Pogorelec Learn how AI technologies can be applied to enhance security, create safe and responsible applications, develop intelligent agents, and improve information discovery. You’ll gain practical skills, explore new tools, and work on projects that help you apply what you

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Pentesting is now central to CISO strategy

Pentesting is now central to CISO strategy 2025-08-11 at 07:36 By Anamarija Pogorelec Security leaders are rethinking their approach to cybersecurity as digital supply chains expand and generative AI becomes embedded in critical systems. A recent survey of 225 security leaders conducted by Emerald Research found that 68% are concerned about the risks posed by

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Fraud controls don’t guarantee consumer trust

Fraud controls don’t guarantee consumer trust 2025-08-08 at 07:31 By Help Net Security Over a third of companies say they are using AI, including generative AI, to fight fraud, according to Experian. As fraud threats become more complex, companies are accelerating their investments with over half adopting new analytics and building AI models to enhance

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What GPT‑5 means for IT teams, devs, and the future of AI at work

What GPT‑5 means for IT teams, devs, and the future of AI at work 2025-08-07 at 20:58 By Sinisa Markovic OpenAI has released GPT‑5, the newest version of its large language model. It’s now available to developers and ChatGPT users, and it brings some real changes to how AI can be used in business and

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AI can write your code, but nearly half of it may be insecure

AI can write your code, but nearly half of it may be insecure 2025-08-07 at 09:15 By Help Net Security While GenAI excels at producing functional code, it introduces security vulnerabilities in 45 percent of cases, according to Veracode’s 2025 GenAI Code Security Report, which analyzed code produced by over 100 LLMs across 80 real-world

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Security tooling pitfalls for small teams: Cost, complexity, and low ROI

Security tooling pitfalls for small teams: Cost, complexity, and low ROI 2025-08-05 at 10:11 By Mirko Zorz In this Help Net Security interview, Aayush Choudhury, CEO at Scrut Automation, discusses why many security tools built for large enterprises don’t work well for leaner, cloud-native teams. He explains how simplicity, integration, and automation are key for

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Your employees uploaded over a gig of files to GenAI tools last quarter

Your employees uploaded over a gig of files to GenAI tools last quarter 2025-08-05 at 08:17 By Help Net Security In Q2 2025, Harmonic reviewed 1 million GenAI prompts and 20,000 uploaded files across more than 300 GenAI and AI-powered SaaS apps, and the findings confirm that sensitive data is being exposed through GenAI tools,

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