Tag: Don’t miss

  • The first ten lines of a command policy for AI coding agents

    In this Help Net Security interview, Vinay Thakker, CTO of KloudStax, explains how to set identity, credentials, and network limits for AI agents. He argues that agents should run under their own identity, with the person’s identity attached when acting on someone’s behalf. He covers where credential proxies go wrong, what the first ten lines of a command policy for a coding agent should say, and how to stop data from leaving through package installs … More →

    Source: Help Net Security · 2026-11-02

  • Byoky: Open-source wallet for AI API keys

    Byoky is an open-source wallet for AI API keys, available as a Chrome and Firefox extension and as iOS and Android apps. Users store their keys for OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Gemini and other providers in it, encrypted on their own device. Apps that want those keys ask the wallet for access, and the wallet sends each request to the provider itself. The app gets a session token. The key stays in the wallet. Byoky goes … More →

    Source: Help Net Security · 2026-11-02

  • Binance hit by $6.3 billion theft in what could be the biggest crypto heist on record

    About $6.3 billion in cryptocurrency was stolen from Binance in what might be the biggest crypto hack in history. “Binance’s initial investigation suggests that the security incident may involve a compromised DevOps engineer’s laptop, which allowed an attacker to gain access to a service container and submit unauthorized withdrawal transactions,” the exchange said in a security update published early on October 30. The company found no evidence of a wallet private key leak and plans … More →

    Source: Help Net Security · 2026-10-30

  • Fake IT help desk callers got by on little more than names and email addresses

    Attackers posing as IT help desk staff contacted employees by phone, email and Microsoft Teams in the third quarter of 2026 and talked them into opening remote access sessions, Cisco Talos Incident Response (Talos IR) found across several engagements. In one case, that access ended in ransomware. They knew names and email addresses “The attackers appeared to know employee names and email addresses, as they contacted users directly by email and Teams and used identities … More →

    Source: Help Net Security · 2026-10-30

  • What exactly is ISOC? And what does it mean for you?

    Gartner recently released a new category of assessing security tools: the Integrated Security Operations Center (ISOC). Even though SIEM isn’t going anywhere, a rapidly evolving threat landscape is forcing a shift in industry logic that is reflected in the emergence of this new category. For years, SIEM has dominated as an all-encompassing category. But SIEMs are no longer sufficient to collect data, support investigations, and manage incidents; instead, the SIEM has separated into distinct architectural … More →

    Source: Help Net Security · 2026-10-30