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OpenAI’s GPT-5.5 is out with expanded cybersecurity safeguards

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OpenAI’s GPT-5.5 is out with expanded cybersecurity safeguards 2026-04-24 at 11:27 By Sinisa Markovic Competition to release stronger AI models is accelerating, and just weeks after the release of GPT-5.4, OpenAI has introduced GPT-5.5, pointing to expanded safeguards in the new model. GPT-5.5 is being rolled out to Plus, Pro, Business, and Enterprise users in […]

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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 study of 1,000 Android apps finds a privacy policy logging gap

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A study of 1,000 Android apps finds a privacy policy logging gap 2026-04-24 at 08:22 By Anamarija Pogorelec Android developers write log statements for the same reasons they always have: debugging crashes, tracing performance issues, and understanding how features behave in production. Legal and privacy teams, working from templates and regulatory checklists, draft policies describing

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Where AI in CI/CD is working for engineering teams

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Where AI in CI/CD is working for engineering teams 2026-04-24 at 08:22 By Anamarija Pogorelec Developers have folded AI into daily coding work. Still, the same tools remain largely absent from the systems that validate and ship software. New research from JetBrains points to a widening gap between how engineers write code on their own

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IT spending to hit $6.31 trillion record, thanks to AI

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IT spending to hit $6.31 trillion record, thanks to AI 2026-04-24 at 08:22 By Anamarija Pogorelec Global spending on IT is expected to reach $6.31 trillion in 2026, according to the latest quarterly forecast from Gartner, marking a 13.5% increase from the previous year. The forecast shows that growth is spread across all major segments,

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With AI’s help, North Korean hackers stumbled into a near-undetectable attack

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With AI’s help, North Korean hackers stumbled into a near-undetectable attack 2026-04-24 at 08:22 By Zeljka Zorz For many years, state-sponsored hacking was defined by human expertise in finding security holes, writing malware and exploits, pulling off social engineering and phishing attacks, and much more. Since the advent of LLM-powered AI assistants and tools, less

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Hacker with a special interest in breaching sports institutions ends behind bars

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Hacker with a special interest in breaching sports institutions ends behind bars 2026-04-24 at 08:22 By Sinisa Markovic French police have arrested a suspected hacker linked to a series of data breaches affecting organizations in the country. Citing authorities, Le Parisien reported that the suspect, a 20-year-old man using the alias ‘HexDex,’ was taken into

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Google brings instant email verification to Android, no OTP needed

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Google brings instant email verification to Android, no OTP needed 2026-04-23 at 15:10 By Anamarija Pogorelec Google has introduced cryptographically verified email credentials for Android through the Credential Manager API. This API aligns with the W3C Digital Credential API standard. It provides a unified way for apps to request and retrieve user credentials for authentication

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If cyber espionage via HDMI worries you, NCSC built a device to stop it

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If cyber espionage via HDMI worries you, NCSC built a device to stop it 2026-04-23 at 14:17 By Sinisa Markovic A new cybersecurity device developed by the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) should be a helpful solution for protecting governments and businesses from malicious activity carried through display connections. Called SilentGlass, the plug-and-play tool is

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Apple fixes iPhone bug that let FBI retrieve deleted Signal messages(CVE-2026-28950)

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Apple fixes iPhone bug that let FBI retrieve deleted Signal messages(CVE-2026-28950) 2026-04-23 at 14:17 By Zeljka Zorz Apple has rolled out security updates for iPhones and iPads that fix CVE-2026-28950, a logging issue in Notification Services that made devices unexpectedly retain notifications marked for deletion. The vulnerability was patched following a recent report about the

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GopherWhisper APT group hides command and control traffic in Slack and Discord

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GopherWhisper APT group hides command and control traffic in Slack and Discord 2026-04-23 at 12:17 By Anamarija Pogorelec Attackers continue to lean on everyday collaboration platforms to hide command and control traffic inside normal enterprise noise. A newly identified China-aligned APT group pushes that trend further, running its operations through Slack workspaces, Discord servers, Outlook

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OpenAI tackles a bad habit people have when interacting with AI

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OpenAI tackles a bad habit people have when interacting with AI 2026-04-23 at 12:17 By Sinisa Markovic Since people tend to paste personal data into AI tools such as ChatGPT, OpenAI has released Privacy Filter, an open-weight model designed to detect and redact personally identifiable information (PII) in text. The model is available under the

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Scenario: Open-source framework for automated AI app red-teaming

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Scenario: Open-source framework for automated AI app red-teaming 2026-04-23 at 09:47 By Mirko Zorz Enterprises running customer service bots, data analytics agents, and other AI-driven applications in production handle sensitive records and connect to core business systems every day. LangWatch has released Scenario, an open-source framework that runs automated red-team exercises against AI agents using

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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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Ransomware, fraud, and lawsuits drive cyber insurance claims to new peaks

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Ransomware, fraud, and lawsuits drive cyber insurance claims to new peaks 2026-04-23 at 07:13 By Mirko Zorz The 2026 InsurSec Report from At-Bay, covering more than 100,000 policy years of claims data, documents a 7% year-over-year rise in overall claim frequency and an all-time high average severity of $221,000. Ransomware severity reached $508,000, up 16%

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Google’s Workspace Intelligence promises privacy while running on your data

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Google’s Workspace Intelligence promises privacy while running on your data 2026-04-22 at 23:27 By Sinisa Markovic Security and data governance are among the key considerations in Google’s latest AI update, which introduces Workspace Intelligence within Google Workspace. Google describes the feature as “a secure, dynamic system that inherently understands complex semantic relationships within your Workspace

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Cyberattack on French government agency triggers phishing alert

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Cyberattack on French government agency triggers phishing alert 2026-04-22 at 19:55 By Sinisa Markovic France Titres, a French government agency, has disclosed a data breach that may have exposed user data from its online portal. France Titres, also known as the Agence nationale des titres sécurisés (ANTS), operates under the French Ministry of the Interior

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Claude Mythos finds 271 Firefox flaws, Mozilla believes it shifts security toward defenders

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Claude Mythos finds 271 Firefox flaws, Mozilla believes it shifts security toward defenders 2026-04-22 at 18:51 By Sinisa Markovic The Mozilla Foundation tested Claude Mythos, an Anthropic AI model that has stirred debate in the cybersecurity community. Before granting access to Mythos, Mozilla scanned Firefox using Opus 4.6, which led to fixes for 22 security-sensitive

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New Mirai variants target routers and DVRs in parallel campaigns

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New Mirai variants target routers and DVRs in parallel campaigns 2026-04-22 at 16:42 By Zeljka Zorz Hidden inside newly discovered botnet malware is an unusual message from its creator: “AI.NEEDS.TO.DIE”. Dubbed “tuxnokill” by researchers at Akamai, the malware is one of two fresh Mirai botnet variants documented this month by major cybersecurity firms and, judging

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