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reddit
Reddit declares war on bad bot activity

Reddit is introducing changes to support interactions between people. The company is taking a bottom-up approach to help users understand when they are engaging with another …

Google
Google races to secure encryption before quantum threats arrive

Google is preparing for the quantum era, a turning point in digital security, with a 2029 timeline for post-quantum cryptography (PQC) migration. Security professionals warn …

AI
AI SOC vendors are selling a future that production deployments haven’t reached yet

Vendors selling AI-powered security operations platforms have built their pitches around a consistent set of promises: autonomous threat investigation, dramatic reductions in …

AI vs human
A nearly undetectable LLM attack needs only a handful of poisoned samples

Prompt engineering has become a standard part of how large language models are deployed in production, and it introduces an attack surface most organizations have not yet …

Christa Dodoo
Your facilities run on fragile supply chains and nobody wants to admit it

In this Help Net Security interview, Christa Dodoo, Global Chair at IFMA, discusses how facility managers are managing supply chain risk in critical building systems. She …

AI agent
Who owns AI agent access? At most companies, nobody knows

AI agents are operating across production enterprise environments at scale, and the identity infrastructure managing their access has not kept up with their deployment. A …

Oracle Linux
Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel 8.2 ships with confidential computing support, XFS live repair

Many enterprise Linux deployments rely on hardware-level memory isolation to protect sensitive workloads from co-tenants and compromised hypervisors. Oracle’s …

Prison
Botnet operator behind $14 million in ransomware extortion payments gets 24 months behind bars

A Russian national has been sentenced to 24 months in prison after admitting he managed a botnet used to launch ransomware attacks against dozens of U.S. companies. The judge …

dark web
Gemini picks up criminal activity buried in dark web noise

To help teams make faster and more accurate decisions on emerging threats, Google has introduced a dark web intelligence capability in Google Threat Intelligence. Powered by …

supply chain
LiteLLM PyPI packages compromised in expanding TeamPCP supply chain attacks

A slew of supply chain attacks against popular open source tools and packages appears to have been orchestrated by TeamPCP, a cybercriminal group that rose to prominence in …

Microsoft Entra ID
Microsoft hands Entra ID users new option for MFA

Organizations rely on MFA to enforce identity checks before granting access to systems and services. Microsoft has made external MFA generally available in Microsoft Entra ID, …

Anthropic
Anthropic trims action approval loop, lets Claude Code make the call

Auto mode is a new permissions feature in the Claude Code system that allows the AI to make approval decisions on a user’s behalf while safeguards review actions before …

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