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Secure your containers without breaking what works

Container security has a familiar problem. Teams identify vulnerabilities, but turning those findings into lower risk is much harder. A standard container image may include operating-system packages, development tools, debugging utilities and libraries that an application never uses. Each unnecessary component can expand the attack surface and add vulnerabilities to investigate, patch or explain during an audit. Cons…

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What AI-generated malware looks like under the microscope

In this Help Net Security interview, Lindsay Kaye, VP of Threat Intelligence at HUMAN Security, talks about what AI-generated malware looks like on the bench. She points to tidy comments, uniform logging messages, and emojis as signs a script came from a model, and notes that decompiled code strips much of that away. Kaye also covers how AI is squeezing the time teams have to patch, where it helps criminals scale fra…

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Ghostunnel: Open-source TLS proxy with mutual authentication

Ghostunnel is an open-source proxy that handles TLS for programs that cannot handle it themselves. It works in two directions. In server mode it sits in front of a backend, accepts TLS connections, checks the client’s certificate, then passes traffic to the service behind it over TCP or a UNIX socket. In client mode it does the reverse, listening for plain local connections, wrapping them in TLS and presenting a clie…

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CISA Confirms Hackers Exploiting WordPress Core Flaw During Software Upgrades

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added a security flaw in WordPress Core to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation. The high-severity vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-119977 (CVSS score: 8.1), is a case of Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) race condition that could be exploited to achieve arbitrary code

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Companies going all in on AI could see their strategy backfire

Four of the five highest-ranked enterprise risks in Gartner’s Quarterly Emerging Risk Report were AI-related. AI strategy miscalculation and AI-driven competitive displacement debuted at No. 3 and No. 4, respectively. The AI workforce preparedness gap held fifth place. AI discovery of cyber vulnerabilities and geopolitical energy supply shocks held the top two spots for the second consecutive quarter. The rankings sh…

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