When every day is threat assessment day
In this Help Net Security interview, Paul J. Mocarski, VP & CISO at Sammons Financial Group, discusses how insurance carriers are adapting their cybersecurity strategies. …
Autonomous AI could challenge how we define criminal behavior
Whether we ever build AI that thinks like a person is still uncertain. What seems more realistic is a future with more independent machines. These systems already work across …
ProxyBridge: Open-source proxy routing for Windows applications
ProxyBridge is a lightweight, open-source tool that lets Windows users route network traffic from specific applications through SOCKS5 or HTTP proxies. It can redirect both …
Shadow AI risk: Navigating the growing threat of ungoverned AI adoption
AI is transforming how businesses operate, but it’s also creating new, often hidden risks. As employees and business units eagerly embrace and experiment with AI solutions, …
AI is forcing boards to rethink how they govern security
Boards are spending more time on cybersecurity but still struggle to show how investments improve business performance. The focus has shifted from whether to fund protection …
What the latest data reveals about hard drive reliability
What really counts as a hard drive failure? That’s the question at the center of Backblaze’s Q3 2025 Drive Stats report, which tracks the performance of 328,348 hard drives …
CISA: Patch Samsung flaw exploited to deliver spyware (CVE-2025-21042)
CISA has added CVE-2025-21042, a vulnerability affecting Samsung mobile devices, to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, and has ordered US federal civilian …
GNU Coreutils 9.9 brings fixes and updates across essential tools
GNU Coreutils is the backbone of many enterprise Linux environments. It provides the basic file, shell, and text utilities that every GNU-based system depends on. The latest …
Attackers exploited another Gladinet Triofox vulnerability (CVE-2025-12480)
Attackers have exploited yet another vulnerability (CVE-2025-12480) in the Gladinet Triofox secure file sharing and remote access platform, Mandiant revealed on Monday. …
To get funding, CISOs are mastering the language of money
In this Help Net Security interview, Chris Wheeler, CISO at Resilience, talks about how CISOs are managing changing cybersecurity budgets. While overall spending is up, many …
How far can police push privacy before it breaks
Police use drones, body cameras, and license plate readers as part of their daily work. Supporters say these tools make communities safer. Critics see something different, a …
CISOs are cracking under pressure
Cybersecurity leaders are hitting their limit. A new report from Nagomi Security shows that most CISOs are stretched thin, dealing with nonstop incidents, too many tools, and …
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