Heineken CISO champions a new risk mindset to unlock innovation

In this Help Net Security interview, Marina Marceta, CISO at Heineken, discusses what it takes for CISOs to be seen as business-aligned leaders rather than technical overseers. She shares... Read more »

Small language models step into the fight against phishing sites

Phishing sites keep rising, and security teams are searching for ways to sort suspicious pages at speed. A recent study explores whether small language models (SLMs) can scan raw... Read more »

Black Friday 2025 for InfoSec: How to spot real value and avoid the noise

Your inbox is probably drowning in Black Friday emails right now. Another “limited time offer” that’ll reappear next month, countdown timer creating artificial urgency. You’re right to be skeptical... Read more »

DeepTeam: Open-source LLM red teaming framework

Security teams are pushing large language models into products faster than they can test them, which makes any new red teaming method worth paying attention to. DeepTeam is an... Read more »

How board members think about cyber risk and what CISOs should tell them

In this Help Net Security video, Jonathan Trull, EVP & CISO at Qualys, discusses which cybersecurity metrics matter most to a board of directors. Drawing on more than two... Read more »

Popular code formatting sites are exposing credentials and other secrets

Widely used code formatting sites JSONFormatter and CodeBeautify are exposing sensitive credentials, API keys, private keys, configuration files and other secrets, watchTowr researchers discovered. The findings JSONFormatter and CodeBeautify... Read more »

Tor Project is rolling out Counter Galois Onion encryption

People who rely on Tor expect their traffic to move through the network without giving away who they are. That trust depends on the strength of the encryption that... Read more »

Fake “Windows Update” screens fuels new wave of ClickFix attacks

A convincing (but fake) “Windows Update” screen can be the perfect lure for tricking users into infecting their computers with malware. Add a multi-stage delivery chain with some offbeat... Read more »

Microsoft cracks down on malicious meeting invites

Phishing is shifting into places people rarely check. Meeting invites that plant themselves on calendars can survive long after the malicious email is gone. That leaves a quiet opening... Read more »

How an AI meltdown could reset enterprise expectations

In this Help Net Security interview, Graham McMillan, CTO at Redgate Software, discusses AI, security, and the future of enterprise oversight. He explains why past incidents haven’t pushed the... Read more »
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