Why vulnerability reports stall inside shared hosting companies
Security teams keep sending vulnerability notifications, and the same pattern keeps repeating. Many alerts land, few lead to fixes. A new qualitative study digs into…
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Zabbix: Open-source IT and OT observability solution
Zabbix is an open source monitoring platform designed to track the availability, performance, and integrity of IT environments. It monitors networks along with servers, virtual…
AI breaks the old security playbook
AI has moved into enterprise operations faster than many security programs expected. It is embedded in workflows, physical systems, and core infrastructure. Some AI tools…
European police busts Ukraine scam call centers
Law enforcement agencies from several European countries have arrested twelve persons suspected of being involved in scamming victims across Europe, Eurojust announced today. “The fraudsters…
SoundCloud breached, hit by DoS attacks
Audio streaming service SoundCloud has suffered a breach and has been repeatedly hit by denial of service attacks, the company confirmed on Monday. In the…
AI might be the answer for better phishing resilience
Phishing is still a go-to tactic for attackers, which is why even small gains in user training are worth noticing. A recent research project from…
The messy data trails of telehealth are becoming a security nightmare
In this Help Net Security interview, Scott Bachand, CIO/CISO at Ro, discusses how telehealth reshapes the flow of patient data and what that means for…
Product showcase: GlassWire mobile firewall for Android
GlassWire is a free network monitoring and security application for Windows and Android. It lets you see how your system communicates over the internet and…
Passwordless is finally happening, and users barely notice
Security teams know the strain that comes from tightening authentication controls while keeping users productive. A new report from Okta suggests this strain is easing.…
What Cloudflare’s 2025 internet review says about attacks, outages, and traffic shifts
The internet stayed busy, brittle, and under constant pressure in 2025. Cloudflare’s annual Radar Year in Review offers a wide view of how traffic moved,…
Update your Apple devices to fix actively exploited vulnerabilities! (CVE-2025-14174, CVE-2025-43529)
Apple has issued security updates with fixes for two WebKit vulnerabilities (CVE-2025-14174, CVE-2025-43529) that have been exploited as zero-days. Several days before the release of…
Kali Linux 2025.4: New tools and “quality-of-life” improvements
OffSec has released Kali Linux 2025.4, a new version of its widely used penetration testing and digital forensics platform. Most of the changes are related…