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Top companies to visit at Black Hat USA 2026

Top companies to visit at Black Hat USA 2026 2026-07-30 at 08:30 By Mirko Zorz Black Hat USA 2026 returns to Mandalay Bay with a re-engineered six-day program designed to spark innovation, challenge assumptions, and unite the global security community. The event opens with four days of immersive, expert-led Trainings (August 1-4), continues with Summit […]

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Impersonation protection: How to protect your executives when the truth isn’t clear

Impersonation protection: How to protect your executives when the truth isn’t clear 2026-07-30 at 08:00 By Help Net Security How do you protect your executives when truth doesn’t seem to be truth anymore? It’s a question BlackCloak Founder and CEO Dr. Chris Pierson recently discussed this dilemma with SVP of Product Matt Covington. Advances in […]

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Product showcase: Dashlane Password Manager is more security toolkit than password vault

Product showcase: Dashlane Password Manager is more security toolkit than password vault 2026-07-30 at 07:30 By Anamarija Pogorelec Dashlane is a password manager for individuals and families that stores passwords, passkeys, payment cards, personal information and secure notes in an encrypted vault. It also includes a password generator, password health reports, an authenticator, credential sharing, […]

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Exposed credentials are giving attackers a head start many organizations don’t see

Exposed credentials are giving attackers a head start many organizations don’t see 2026-07-30 at 07:00 By Anamarija Pogorelec Compromised credentials can remain active long after passwords are created, leaving organizations trying to identify exposed accounts before attackers can use them. The 2026 Credential Risk Report from Enzoic shows growing awareness of the problem, but monitoring […]

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Tengu botnet reboots Linux devices to survive removal

Tengu botnet reboots Linux devices to survive removal 2026-07-29 at 16:52 By Sinisa Markovic A new Mirai-derived IoT botnet can force an infected Linux device to reboot once its main process is killed, giving its persistence mechanisms another opportunity to relaunch it, Nozomi Networks Labs has found. The malware, dubbed Tengu, was discovered by a […]

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ShutterGap: Aryon Security finds 3.7M AWS cloud resources exposed beyond CSPM/CNAPP visibility

ShutterGap: Aryon Security finds 3.7M AWS cloud resources exposed beyond CSPM/CNAPP visibility 2026-07-29 at 16:00 By Help Net Security Research from Aryon reveals that each year, 3,731,699 short-lived cloud resources containing highly sensitive information are publicly exposed. This impacts any organization using AWS services that support public sharing. These exposures often last only minutes or hours, […]

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Cloudflare reveals what’s behind major internet outages

Cloudflare reveals what’s behind major internet outages 2026-07-29 at 13:20 By Sinisa Markovic Storms, earthquakes, and infrastructure failures disrupted internet access throughout the second quarter, while governments deliberately shut networks down, according to Cloudflare’s latest Internet Disruption Summary. Based on Cloudflare Radar traffic data, the report covers internet disruptions recorded between April and June 2026. […]

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The energy sector’s OT cybersecurity talent is retiring faster than it can be replaced

The energy sector’s OT cybersecurity talent is retiring faster than it can be replaced 2026-07-29 at 08:30 By Mirko Zorz A ransomware hit lands a chemical plant in a safe state. Nobody is hurt, the site holds steady, and the operators begin the restart. The systems stay down. Every attempt to bring them online meets […]

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Specter: Open-source NFC reader bug sweep for Flipper Zero

Specter: Open-source NFC reader bug sweep for Flipper Zero 2026-07-29 at 08:00 By Anamarija Pogorelec Specter is a Flipper Zero app that finds powered NFC readers by listening for the radio field they give off. The readers it hunts work at 13.56 MHz. The Flipper’s own chip does the sensing The onboard ST25R3916 carries a […]

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Your AI agents can reach data no one approved

Your AI agents can reach data no one approved 2026-07-29 at 07:30 By Mirko Zorz A credential expired. An AI agent kept using it anyway, and a mid-sized company’s systems went down for a quarter’s worth of trouble before anyone traced the failure back to a non-human account no one had been logging. That agent […]

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Android malware detection collapses when the context stage comes out

Android malware detection collapses when the context stage comes out 2026-07-29 at 07:00 By Anamarija Pogorelec A phone backup app asks for storage, contacts, SMS, and call logs. A device-management tool asks for more than that. Run either one past a machine learning malware scanner and it comes back flagged. Six Android detectors in wide […]

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Hugging Face breach reignites open-weights debate, raises liability questions

Hugging Face breach reignites open-weights debate, raises liability questions 2026-07-28 at 18:55 By Zeljka Zorz The first publicly documented cyberattack run end-to-end by an autonomous AI was an OpenAI benchmark test that escaped its sandbox and breached Hugging Face. In an incident post-mortem compiled with the input from Hugging Face and several hundred members of […]

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Exposed BMCs hand out password hashes before login

Exposed BMCs hand out password hashes before login 2026-07-28 at 15:00 By Sinisa Markovic An attacker who reaches UDP port 623 on a server’s baseboard management controller can ask it for a password hash and receive one before logging in. The exchange is part of the IPMI 2.0 handshake, built on an authentication protocol introduced […]

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JetBrains fixes critical unauthenticated RCE in TeamCity On-Premises (CVE-2026-63077)

JetBrains fixes critical unauthenticated RCE in TeamCity On-Premises (CVE-2026-63077) 2026-07-28 at 14:04 By Zeljka Zorz JetBrains has fixed a critical vulnerability (CVE-2026-63077) affecting TeamCity On-Premises and is urging admins to upgrade self-hosted servers as soon as possible. “For those who are unable to do so, we have released a security patch plugin,” noted Daniel Gallo, […]

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VERITAS project could change the way scientists secure AI

VERITAS project could change the way scientists secure AI 2026-07-28 at 14:02 By Sinisa Markovic The AI models, datasets, and automated systems researchers depend on can be compromised in ways conventional cybersecurity tools aren’t designed to detect. A new project called VERITAS (VERified Infrastructure for Trustworthy AI in Science) aims to close that gap by […]

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AWS to retire Shield Advanced L7 automatic mitigation on January 1, 2027

AWS to retire Shield Advanced L7 automatic mitigation on January 1, 2027 2026-07-28 at 12:23 By Anamarija Pogorelec AWS Shield Advanced, a managed service that protects applications from external threats, is adding the Anti-DDoS managed rule group, designed for application-layer (L7) DDoS protection, to eligible web access control lists (ACLs) in Count mode. The addition […]

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Coca-Cola confirms hackers stole data in Fairlife ransomware attack

Coca-Cola confirms hackers stole data in Fairlife ransomware attack 2026-07-28 at 12:01 By Sinisa Markovic Coca-Cola has confirmed that the ransomware attack on its dairy subsidiary Fairlife involved the theft of company data, weeks after the incident temporarily halted production at its US facilities. Fairlife is a Coca-Cola-owned dairy brand that makes ultra-filtered milk and […]

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Shadow AI incident response begins with logs that may already be gone

Shadow AI incident response begins with logs that may already be gone 2026-07-28 at 09:00 By Mirko Zorz In this Help Net Security interview, Brandy Wityak, VP of Complex Matters at LevelBlue, explains what happens in the hours after a shadow AI incident. She describes how quickly logs roll over, why firewall records of outbound […]

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AI took more than junior developer jobs and the bill comes later

AI took more than junior developer jobs and the bill comes later 2026-07-28 at 08:30 By Sinisa Markovic A ticket comes in for a small bug fix. Hand it to the junior on your team and you wait a day, review something that half works, and sit down to explain what went wrong. Describe it […]

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Download: The High-Performance Team Playbook

Download: The High-Performance Team Playbook 2026-07-28 at 08:00 By Help Net Security Get practical insight from teams who’ve built, scaled and handed over engineering functions at enterprise level. Most engineering teams don’t fail because of bad engineers. They fail because performance is assumed. This playbook shows how high-performance teams are built intentionally across people, structure, […]

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