Microsoft sets a path to switch off NTLM across Windows

Windows is shifting to a more secure authentication approach, moving away from New Technology LAN Manager (NTLM) and toward stronger, Kerberos-based options. NTLM has been part of Windows for... Read more »

Where NSA zero trust guidance aligns with enterprise reality

The NSA has published Phase One and Phase Two of its Zero Trust Implementation Guidelines, providing structured guidance for organizations working to implement zero trust cybersecurity practices. The documents... Read more »

Open-source AI pentesting tools are getting uncomfortably good

AI has come a long way in the pentesting world. We are now seeing open-source tools that can genuinely mimic how a human tester works, not just fire off... Read more »

Pompelmi: Open-source secure file upload scanning for Node.js

Software teams building services in JavaScript are adding more layers of defense to handle untrusted file uploads. An open-source project called Pompelmi aims to insert malware scanning and policy... Read more »

What boards need to hear about cyber risk, and what they don’t

In this Help Net Security video, Rishi Kaushal, CIO at Entrust, explains how security leaders should talk to the board about cyber risk. He focuses on what matters to... Read more »

AI is flooding IAM systems with new identities

Most organizations view AI identities through the same lens used for other non-human identities, such as service accounts, API keys, and chatbots, according to The State of Non-Human Identity... Read more »

Week in review: Microsoft fixes exploited Office zero-day, Fortinet patches FortiCloud SSO flaw

Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, articles, interviews and videos: When open science meets real-world cybersecurity In this Help Net Security interview, Matthew Kwiatkowski,... Read more »

Microsoft sets new timeline for Sentinel transition to Defender portal

Microsoft has updated the timeline for transitioning the Microsoft Sentinel experience from the Azure portal to the Microsoft Defender portal from July 1, 2026 to March 31, 2027. The... Read more »

Ex-Google engineer found guilty of stealing AI secrets

A federal jury in California convicted former Google software engineer Linwei Ding, also known as Leon Ding, on seven counts of economic espionage and seven counts of theft of... Read more »

Arkose Titan Aims to make bot, scraping, and AI fraud economically unviable

Arkose Labs announced Arkose Titan, a unified platform that protects enterprises from human and AI-powered fraud, scraping and bot attacks. Unlike fragmented point solutions, Arkose Titan provides defense-in-depth through... Read more »
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