Deepfake detection is losing ground to generative models
Deepfake detection has been built around a single question for close to a decade. Given a video or audio clip, is it real or synthetic?
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Zombie linkages are keeping expired domains trusted for years
Domains expire, get transferred, and return to the market every day. The systems connected to those domains can continue trusting the original owner long aft...
The AI oversight paradox: Is the investment worth the cost of watching it?
Unlike in 2025, when AI adoption and testing drove business strategies, organizations in 2026 want proven ROI before committing budgets, according to a repor...
New infosec products of the week: May 15, 2026
Here’s a look at the most interesting products from the past week Alation, Apricorn, Versa Networks, and TrustCloud. The questionnaire-based TPRM model is br...
Fragnesia: New Linux kernel LPE bug was spawned by Dirty Frag patch (CVE-2026-46300)
Researchers have found and disclosed yet another local privilege escalation (LPE) vulnerability in the Linux kernel: CVE-2026-46300, aka “Fragnesia”. The fla...
HYCU aiR detects insider risk and AI activity from backups
HYCU has announced HYCU aiR (AI Resilience), an AI-native solution that turns backup data across dozens of applications into a live and actionable intelligen...
Cofense adds AI-powered campaign detection to stop phishing attacks
Cofense has announced new advancements to its Phishing Defense Platform aimed at improving detection and response to AI-powered phishing attacks. The updates...
Microsoft’s WinUI agent plugin trims token use by over 70% during development
Microsoft published a plugin on May 13 that lets GitHub Copilot CLI and Claude Code drive the full WinUI 3 development cycle, from project scaffolding throug...
Microsoft turns Copilot Studio into an AI agent control center
The Microsoft Copilot Studio April 2026 updates improve visibility and governance for admins and expand workflow capabilities for managing agents. Copilot su...
AI cyber capability is speeding past earlier projections
AI cyber capability is improving faster than expected, with newer models surpassing earlier projections, according to the UK government’s AI Security Institu...
CERN’s open source KiCad library gives the world 17,000 circuit board components
CERN has released its complete KiCad component library under an open source license, making it available to hardware designers anywhere in the world. The lib...
Vector embedding security gap exposes enterprise AI pipelines
Enterprise adoption of retrieval-augmented generation has moved sensitive corporate content into a new storage format that existing security tools cannot ins...
Closing the AI governance gap in your enterprise
In this Help Net Security video, Casey Bleeker, CEO at SurePath AI, talks about the AI governance gap that exists in almost every organization. Drawing from ...
Over 70% of organizations hit by identity breaches
Attackers rely on stolen credentials, compromised service accounts, and social engineering attacks targeting employees, according to Sophos’ The State of Ide...
Machine identities outnumber humans 109 to 1
Organizations manage an average of 109 machine identities for every human identity. AI agents account for a growing share of those identities, with companies...
WhatsApp adds Incognito Chat for private Meta AI conversations
The company launched Incognito Chat with Meta AI, a feature that lets users hold AI conversations the platform itself cannot read. The rollout will reach Wha...
Signal responds to phishing attacks with new in-app security warnings
Signal is adding new protections for users following recent phishing and social engineering attacks. In March, the FBI and CISA issued a warning stating that...
Tuskira’s Kairo exposes hidden AI-driven breach paths
Tuskira has announced the launch of Kairo, a breach modeling capability that detects deep, hidden breach paths by leveraging its security data mesh and digit...
Apricorn hardens ASK3 encrypted USB drive for extreme conditions
Apricorn has announced enhancements to its Aegis Secure Key 3.0 (ASK3), delivering faster performance and new environmental protection capabilities designed ...
KDE gets over €1 million investment to strengthen security and core infrastructure
European governments and public institutions have been shifting away from proprietary software for years, and the financial infrastructure supporting open-so...