Collaborate Disseminate
Engineers at an Israeli food producer spent most of a week rebuilding a refrigeration system after an intruder switched the gas cooler and receiver valves to manual and pinned them open. Liquid CO2 flooded the compressors and destroyed them. The replac… Continue reading What stops attackers wrecking industrial plants is knowing how
In this interview with Help Net Security, Brian Hill, Field CISO, Client Advisory for BlackCloak, explains how attackers reach companies through the personal lives of executives. He describes a case where a draft report sat in an executive’s pers… Continue reading Digital executive protection is a strategic imperative for CEOs
An attacker who talks a user into opening an attachment gets whatever that machine still permits: a service account with rights across the domain, an outbound route to anywhere, a scripting engine sitting there for the taking. Christopher Frenz wants t… Continue reading OWASP’s subtractive security project measures the attack paths you erased
An analyst opening a queue on Monday morning will spend most of it on tickets that amount to nothing. Stellar Cyber’s Agentic Auto Triage closed 8,047 of those tickets on its own during customer trials, filing them as confident false positives. T… Continue reading Analysts got 19 minutes back every hour in Stellar Cyber’s agentic auto triage trials
Attackers reaching for kernel access on a Windows machine bring a driver Microsoft already trusts. It is signed, it loads, and it carries a known flaw. That flaw gives them enough room to tamper with memory or disable the security software watching the… Continue reading Elastic Defend now covers 800+ vulnerable drivers, with automated troubleshooting and ARM support
In this interview with Help Net Security, Mike Wiacek, founder and CTO of Stairwell, explains Backstory, an AI agent that takes a single alert and works outward to map how far a malware campaign spread. He walks through the research behind the claim th… Continue reading Mapping the malware blast radius a single alert won’t show you
In this interview with Help Net Security, Eliran Almog, CEO of Cyviation, explains why airline cyber losses happen on the ground while the aircraft stays unmonitored. He walks through GNSS jamming that leaves no trace in a SIEM, and a PX4 Autopilot fla… Continue reading Aviation cyber risk sits on the ground, the blindness sits in the air
More than one in four organizations hit by a malicious attack over the past year say AI drove it. Those breaches averaged about $1 million above the malicious attacks that ran without AI. Defenders bought similar technology and aimed it somewhere else…. Continue reading Data breach cost 2026 averaged $4.99 million, AI attacks ran higher
Ryan Dewhurst, CEO at KEVIntel, explains how his team confirms exploitation that CISA’s catalog has not listed yet. He describes a global honeypot sensor network, AI triage, and human verification in a lab before a vulnerability reaches the publi… Continue reading 200 new CVEs a day and no realistic way to patch them all
Black Hat USA 2026 returns to Mandalay Bay with a re-engineered six-day program designed to spark innovation, challenge assumptions, and unite the global security community. The event opens with four days of immersive, expert-led Trainings (August 1-4)… Continue reading Top companies to visit at Black Hat USA 2026