Cybersecurity
AI SOC 101: Key Capabilities Security Leaders Need to Know
Aug 13, 2025The Hacker NewsArtificial Intelligence / Threat Hunting Security operations have never been a 9-to-5 job. For SOC analysts, the day often starts and ends deep in a queue of alerts, chasing down what turns out to be false positives, or switching between half a dozen tools to piece together context. The work is…
10 most powerful cybersecurity companies today
Geopolitical unrest. Uncertainty about tariffs. A tough regulatory climate. Heightened concerns about AI-generated attacks. Add it up and you get a high-anxiety, high-stress climate in which protecting enterprise assets is a top priority. IDC predicts that global security spending will grow more than 12% in 2025.The increasing complexity and frequency of cyberthreats are driving organizations…
How to Use Nmap to Scan Ports: A Complete Tutorial
Ask any security, network or systems administrator about the top tools in their toolbox and Nmap is likely on their list. Short for Network Mapper, the versatile utility does everything from performing port scans and managing security configurations to troubleshooting network connections, documenting network environments and monitoring system uptime. Nmap offers a wide variety…
How Brandolini’s law informs our everyday infosec reality – Help Net Security
Brandolini’s law, also known as the “bullshit asymmetry principle”, is simple but devastating: “The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it.” While it’s often thrown around in political debates and social media flame wars, I’ve been thinking a lot about how brutally relevant it is…
Sophos AI at Black Hat USA ’25: Anomaly detection betrayed us, so we gave it a new job
Anomaly detection in cybersecurity has long promised the ability to identify threats by highlighting deviations from expected behavior. When it comes to identifying malicious commands, however, its practical application often results in high rates of false positives – making it expensive and inefficient. But with recent innovations in AI, is there a new angle that…
Android adware: What is it, and how do I get it off my device?
Is your phone suddenly flooded with aggressive ads, slowing down performance or leading to unusual app behavior? Here’s what to do. 08 Aug 2025 • , 5 min. read There are various bad things that could end up on your smartphone. Spyware designed to turn your phone into a secret surveillance device. Trojans that could…
Researchers Uncover GPT-5 Jailbreak and Zero-Click AI Agent Attacks Exposing Cloud and IoT Systems
Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered a jailbreak technique to bypass ethical guardrails erected by OpenAI in its latest large language model (LLM) GPT-5 and produce illicit instructions. Generative artificial intelligence (AI) security platform NeuralTrust said it combined a known technique called Echo Chamber with narrative-driven steering to trick the model into producing undesirable responses. “We use…
Who Got Arrested in the Raid on the XSS Crime Forum? – Krebs on Security
On July 22, 2025, the European police agency Europol said a long-running investigation led by the French Police resulted in the arrest of a 38-year-old administrator of XSS, a Russian-language cybercrime forum with more than 50,000 members. The action has triggered an ongoing frenzy of speculation and panic among XSS denizens about the identity of the…
13 Produkt-Highlights der Black Hat USA
Das Mandalay Bay Convention Center wird zur Black Hat USA zum Cybersecurity-Hub – 2025 lag der Fokus dabei insbesondere auf Agentic und Generative AI. Andrey Bayda | shutterstock.com Zur Black-Hat-Konferenz haben sich auch 2025 Tausende von Sicherheitsexperten in Las Vegas zusammengefunden, um sich über die neuesten Entwicklungen im Bereich Cybersecurity zu informieren und auszutauschen. Der…
What is Integrated Risk Management (IRM)? | Definition from TechTarget
What is integrated risk management? Integrated risk management (IRM) is a set of proactive, businesswide practices that contribute to an organization’s security, risk tolerance profile and strategic decisions. As opposed to compliance-based risk management approaches, IRM focuses on evaluating risks in the wider context of business strategy. An IRM program should be collaborative and involve…