Tag: automation
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Security at Scale: How Open VSX Is Raising the Bar
Security work is often most visible when something goes wrong: a compromised package, a leaked credential, a typosquatted extension, an abused automation token. In those moments, it becomes clear that software infrastructure is not abstract. It is operational, exposed, and trusted far more often than it is inspected. Open VSX belongs to that category of..…
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RSAC 2026 is back, and the certificate automation gap is impossible to ignore
RSAC 2026 Conference marked a return to form, more vibrant and better attended than any show I can recall over the past decade. The audience was distinctly international, with … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/03/30/rsac-2026-conference-recap/
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Why Kubernetes controllers are the perfect backdoor
Tags: access, api, automation, backdoor, compliance, container, control, kubernetes, malicious, mitre, service, threatFigure 1: Anatomy of a controller-based attack. The malicious webhook intercepts legitimate pod creation requests and injects a backdoor sidecar before the object is persisted to etcd. Niranjan Kumar Sharma As illustrated in Figure 1, this webhook acts as a controller. Every time a legitimate pod is created (e.g., a payment service), the API server sends…
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Agentic bots and synthetic identities fuel surge in fraud
LexisNexis Risk Solutions warns of a massive 450% rise in agentic traffic and an eight-fold increase in synthetic identity fraud as cyber criminals scale automation to bypass security controls First seen on computerweekly.com Jump to article: www.computerweekly.com/news/366640815/Agentic-bots-and-synthetic-identities-fuel-surge-in-fraud
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Inside RSA 2026: Security Leaders Grapple With AI’s Growing Role and Risks
RSA Conference 2026 spotlights AI in cybersecurity, from SOC automation to governance challenges, as experts weigh trust, control, and risk. The post Inside RSA 2026: Security Leaders Grapple With AI’s Growing Role and Risks appeared first on TechRepublic. First seen on techrepublic.com Jump to article: www.techrepublic.com/article/news-rsa-conference-2026-ai-cybersecurity-soc-governance/
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Best Klaviyo Alternatives for Revenue Growth and Advanced Analytics
Tags: automationTop Klaviyo alternatives offer advanced analytics, automation, and insights to help e-commerce brands improve campaigns, boost revenue, and track performance. First seen on hackread.com Jump to article: hackread.com/best-klaviyo-alternatives-advanced-analytics/
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North Korean Hackers Are Turning VS Code Into a Silent Attack Tool
Developer environments are designed for speed, automation, and flexibility. Features like auto-run tasks and integrated scripting help streamline workflows, but they can also introduce new security risks when abused. New reporting from The Hacker News reveals that North Korean threat actors are exploiting auto-execution features in Visual Studio Code to execute malicious code on developer…
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AI is breaking traditional security models, Here’s where they fail first
AI triage redefines the security team’s role : As AI systems increasingly triage vulnerabilities with high confidence, security teams face a subtle but consequential shift in responsibility. People no longer debate whether AI can reduce noise. It demonstrably can. The harder question is which responsibilities remain with security teams once triage is automated. Are they accountable for…
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Effective API Security Testing Strategies for Modern Application Environments
Modern apps no longer have well-defined boundaries. In today’s SaaS ecosystem of cloud-native applications and hybrid setups, a mix of internal and third-party APIs often serve as the primary pipelines through which apps access information. Almost all transactions, whether authentication, data transfer or workflow automation, happen through APIs, which centralize access to business-critical data. The..…
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Streamline physical security to enable data center growth in the era of AI
Tags: access, ai, automation, best-practice, business, control, data, framework, identity, risk, threat, tool, vulnerabilityThink beyond delivery : Every company operates as an economy of projects. But at AI scale, projects must evolve into programs. Designing and delivering AI-capable data centers requires an integrated, fast-moving production model built on repeatable processes and structured knowledge transfer. Intelligent reuse of project elements, including toolsets, intellectual property, templates, design standards and best practices, becomes…
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AI-Driven Offensive Security: The Current Landscape and What It Means for Defense
The capabilities of modern AI models have advanced far beyond what most people in the security industry have fully internalized. AI-generated phishing, script writing, and basic offensive automation are getting plenty of attention, but what happens when you apply agentic AI to the full lifecycle of building, testing, and refining custom malware and command-and-control (C2)……
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New Critical Jenkins Vulnerabilities Put CI/CD Servers at Risk of RCE Exploits
Tags: advisory, automation, credentials, cyber, exploit, flaw, network, rce, remote-code-execution, risk, vulnerabilityThe Jenkins project released a critical security advisory addressing multiple vulnerabilities in its core automation server and the LoadNinja plugin. These flaws expose continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) environments to severe risks, including arbitrary file creation, credential exposure, and remote code execution (RCE). Because Jenkins controllers often hold elevated privileges across enterprise networks, administrators…
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SpyCloud’s 2026 Identity Exposure Report Reveals Explosion of Non-Human Identity Theft
Tags: ai, authentication, automation, breach, cloud, credentials, cybercrime, cybersecurity, dark-web, data, data-breach, government, identity, malware, monitoring, password, phishing, ransomware, supply-chain, theft, threat, tool67 / sixseven: 140.4Msweet / cookie / candy / cake / pie: 5.7Mchiefs / kansas city chiefs: 5M2025: 4.1Mapple / banana / orange / strawberry / fruit: 2.6MPassword reuse remains widespread, and the report also identified 1.1 million password manager master passwords circulating in underground sources, raising concerns about vault-level compromise when master credentials are…
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SpyCloud’s 2026 Identity Exposure Report Reveals Explosion of Non-Human Identity Theft
Tags: ai, authentication, automation, breach, cloud, credentials, cybercrime, cybersecurity, dark-web, data, data-breach, government, identity, malware, monitoring, password, phishing, ransomware, supply-chain, theft, threat, tool67 / sixseven: 140.4Msweet / cookie / candy / cake / pie: 5.7Mchiefs / kansas city chiefs: 5M2025: 4.1Mapple / banana / orange / strawberry / fruit: 2.6MPassword reuse remains widespread, and the report also identified 1.1 million password manager master passwords circulating in underground sources, raising concerns about vault-level compromise when master credentials are…
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Anton’s Security Blog Quarterly Q1 2026
Tags: ai, automation, breach, ciso, cloud, control, defense, detection, framework, google, governance, infrastructure, mandiant, metric, RedTeam, risk, service, siem, soc, software, supply-chain, threat, update, vulnerability, vulnerability-managementMy Anton’s Security Blog (And Podcast!) Quarterly this covers both Anton on Security and my posts from Google Cloud blog, Google Cloud community blog, and our Cloud Security Podcast (subscribe on Spotify, now with VIDEO). Gemini image for this Top 10 posts with the most lifetime views (excluding paper announcement blogs): Anton’s Alert Fatigue: The Study [A.C.”Š”,…
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Anton’s Security Blog Quarterly Q1 2026
Tags: ai, automation, breach, ciso, cloud, control, defense, detection, framework, google, governance, infrastructure, mandiant, metric, RedTeam, risk, service, siem, soc, software, supply-chain, threat, update, vulnerability, vulnerability-managementMy Anton’s Security Blog (And Podcast!) Quarterly this covers both Anton on Security and my posts from Google Cloud blog, Google Cloud community blog, and our Cloud Security Podcast (subscribe on Spotify, now with VIDEO). Gemini image for this Top 10 posts with the most lifetime views (excluding paper announcement blogs): Anton’s Alert Fatigue: The Study [A.C.”Š”,…
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Anton’s Security Blog Quarterly Q1 2026
Tags: ai, automation, breach, ciso, cloud, control, defense, detection, framework, google, governance, infrastructure, mandiant, metric, RedTeam, risk, service, siem, soc, software, supply-chain, threat, update, vulnerability, vulnerability-managementMy Anton’s Security Blog (And Podcast!) Quarterly this covers both Anton on Security and my posts from Google Cloud blog, Google Cloud community blog, and our Cloud Security Podcast (subscribe on Spotify, now with VIDEO). Gemini image for this Top 10 posts with the most lifetime views (excluding paper announcement blogs): Anton’s Alert Fatigue: The Study [A.C.”Š”,…
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PowerShell Is a Security Risk Here’s How to Fix It
If you run a Windows environment, you already know how critical PowerShell is. It’s the backbone of modern administration, used for automation, configuration, and day-to-day operations at scale. And it doesn’t stop at Windows. If you manage Azure, Microsoft 365, Entra ID, or Exchange Online, PowerShell is likely how you do it. A compromised session isn’t just an endpoint risk. It’s a path to……
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5 key priorities for your RSAC 2026 agenda
Tags: ai, api, attack, automation, ciso, compliance, conference, cybersecurity, data, detection, framework, governance, identity, infrastructure, injection, LLM, risk, service, soc, threat, tool, trainingEnable AI adoption fast enough to stay competitive.Secure the enterprise against a threat landscape that AI itself is creating.These are not sequential problems, unfortunately; they are parallel ones. I’d argue that RSAC 2026 is your best opportunity this year as a security leader to close the knowledge gap. AI prioritised Learning Framework: RSAC can be…
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Dormant Accounts Leave Manufacturing Orgs Open to Attack
While companies use “perp walks” for terminated employees, 48% of manufacturers fail to revoke digital access within 24 hours. Explore the growing risk of dormant accounts, the 74% automation gap in provisioning, and why experts like Darren Guccione and James Maude call overprivileged identities a “frictionless path” for modern cyberattacks. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump…
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Dormant Accounts Leave Manufacturing Orgs Open to Attack
While companies use “perp walks” for terminated employees, 48% of manufacturers fail to revoke digital access within 24 hours. Explore the growing risk of dormant accounts, the 74% automation gap in provisioning, and why experts like Darren Guccione and James Maude call overprivileged identities a “frictionless path” for modern cyberattacks. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump…
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Can AI automation make cybersecurity more confident
How Does Managing Non-Human Identities (NHIs) Empower Cybersecurity? Are your security protocols adequately covering the vast expanse of machine identities within your organization? With the rapid shift to cloud environments, the focus on Non-Human Identities (NHIs) becomes crucial to enhancing cybersecurity measures. NHIs are essentially machine identities that engage with sensitive data and systems, acting……
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The SOAR Ceiling: Why Playbook Automation Has Hit Its Structural Limits
Static playbooks can’t keep up. AI copilots don’t fix the real problem. Multi-agent systems just redistribute complexity. Here’s what security leaders should be evaluating instead. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2026/03/the-soar-ceiling-why-playbook-automation-has-hit-its-structural-limits/
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Reco targets AI agent blind spots with new security capability
Aiming where traditional SSPM falls short: Reco positions the launch as a break from traditional SSPM, arguing that those tools were never designed for autonomous systems.”SSPM sees connections. We see behavior,” Klein said. While a typical SSPM might flag a Zapier-Salesforce link as a third-party integration, “We identify that this specific Zapier workflow is an…
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CISOs rethink their data protection strategies
Tags: access, ai, attack, automation, breach, business, cisco, ciso, cloud, compliance, computing, control, cyber, data, defense, framework, governance, healthcare, identity, jobs, LLM, privacy, resilience, risk, service, strategy, technology, tool, zero-trustFactors driving strategy evaluations CISOs, security experts, and data practitioners cite the expanding use of AI in the enterprise as the main reason they’re rethinking their data protection strategies.”AI is exposing more sensitive information as [workers] are taking that information and typing it into LLMs,” says Errol Weiss, CSO at Health-ISAC.AI tools make it easy…
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prompted: Key Insights from the AI Security Practitioners Conference FireTail Blog
Tags: ai, api, application-security, attack, automation, conference, cybersecurity, data, defense, detection, exploit, google, infrastructure, injection, LLM, malicious, malware, monitoring, openai, risk, strategy, theft, threat, tool, training, update, vulnerability, zero-dayMar 17, 2026 – Jeremy Snyder – The State of AI Security: Moving Beyond TheoryThe biggest shift evident at the [un]prompted AI Security Practitioners Conference was the move from purely theoretical discussions about “what could go wrong” to concrete, battle-tested methodologies for “what is going wrong and how we fix it.” It’s clear that AI…
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prompted: Key Insights from the AI Security Practitioners Conference FireTail Blog
Tags: ai, api, application-security, attack, automation, conference, cybersecurity, data, defense, detection, exploit, google, infrastructure, injection, LLM, malicious, malware, monitoring, openai, risk, strategy, theft, threat, tool, training, update, vulnerability, zero-dayMar 17, 2026 – Jeremy Snyder – The State of AI Security: Moving Beyond TheoryThe biggest shift evident at the [un]prompted AI Security Practitioners Conference was the move from purely theoretical discussions about “what could go wrong” to concrete, battle-tested methodologies for “what is going wrong and how we fix it.” It’s clear that AI…
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Appeals court temporarily pauses order blocking Perplexity’s AI shopping agent on Amazon
The Ninth Circuit has paused a lower-court order as the companies dispute whether user-approved automation can access password-protected accounts without the platform’s permission. First seen on cyberscoop.com Jump to article: cyberscoop.com/perplexity-comet-ai-shopping-agent-amazon-lawsuit-ninth-circuit-stay/
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Agentic AI in the SOC: The Governance Layer you Need Before You Let Automation Execute
Guidance for SOC leaders on safely enabling agentic AI execution”, require policy-driven guardrails, human-approval gates, blast-radius limits, auditability, and rollback to prevent automation from becoming operational risk. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2026/03/agentic-ai-in-the-soc-the-governance-layer-you-need-before-you-let-automation-execute/
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Runtime: The new frontier of AI agent security
Tags: access, ai, automation, ceo, ciso, computer, container, control, crowdstrike, cybersecurity, data, detection, edr, endpoint, firewall, framework, incident response, jobs, monitoring, network, openai, risk, saas, technology, threat, tool, vulnerability, zero-dayWhat runtime monitoring looks like: Once an organization knows where its agents are, the question is what to watch for, and how.Elia Zaitsev, CTO of CrowdStrike, tells CSO that existing endpoint detection and response (EDR) tools already capture the kinds of behavior needed to track AI agents. They instrument operating systems like a flight data…