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For years, cybersecurity strategy revolved around a simple goal: keep attackers out. That mindset no longer matches reality. Today’s threat landscape assumes compromise. Adversaries do not just encrypt data and demand payment. They exfiltrate it, resell it, reuse it, and weaponize it long after the initial breach. As we look toward 2026, cyber resilience, not..

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Artificial intelligence (AI) systems rarely fail in obvious ways. No red error screen. No crashed service. No broken button. They fail quietly. Outputs look confident...Read More

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Session 9D: Github + OSN Security

Authors, Creators & Presenters: Jan-Ulrich Holtgrave (CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security), Kay Friedrich (CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security), Fabian Fischer (CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security), Nicolas Huaman (Leibniz University Hannover), Niklas Busch (CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security), Jan H. Klemmer (CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security), Marcel Fourné (Paderborn University), Oliver Wiese (CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security), Dominik Wermke (North Carolina State University), Sascha Fahl (CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security)

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Attributing Open-Source Contributions is Critical but Difficult: A Systematic Analysis of GitHub Practices and Their Impact on Software Supply Chain Security

Critical open-source projects form the basis of many large software systems. They provide trusted and extensible implementations of important functionality for cryptography, compatibility, and security. Verifying commit authorship authenticity in open-source projects is essential and challenging. Git users can freely configure author details such as names and email addresses. Platforms like GitHub use such information to generate profile links to user accounts. We demonstrate three attack scenarios malicious actors can use to manipulate projects and profiles on GitHub to appear trustworthy. We designed a mixed-research study to assess the effect on critical open-source software projects and evaluated countermeasures. First, we conducted a large-scale measurement among 50,328 critical open-source projects on GitHub and demonstrated that contribution workflows can be abused in 85.9% of the projects. We identified 573,043 email addresses that a malicious actor can claim to hijack historic contributions and improve the trustworthiness of their accounts. When looking at commit signing as a countermeasure, we found that the majority of users (95.4%) never signed a commit, and for the majority of projects (72.1%), no commit was ever signed. In contrast, only 2.0% of the users signed all their commits, and for 0.2% of the projects all commits were signed. Commit signing is not associated with projects' programming languages, topics, or other security measures. Second, we analyzed online security advice to explore the awareness of contributor spoofing and identify recommended countermeasures. Most documents exhibit awareness of the simple spoofing technique via Git commits but no awareness of problems with GitHub's handling of email addresses.

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Our thanks to the Network and Distributed System Security (NDSS) Symposium for publishing their Creators, Authors and Presenter’s superb NDSS Symposium 2025 Conference content on the Organizations' YouTube Channel.

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Corr-Serve, a South African value-added distributor of cybersecurity solutions, has strengthened its long-standing partnership with Seceon, a global provider of advanced cybersecurity technology, expanding local access to AI-driven threat detection and response capabilities. The enhanced agreement builds on more than seven years of collaboration between the two companies in Southern Africa and positions Corr-Serve as Seceon’s

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Let's get something out of the way: retrospectives can feel a bit like mandatory fun. Someone gathers up the year's events, packages them into neat categories, and delivers "key takeaways" that land somewhere between obvious and forgettable. This is not that.

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Really interesting blog post from Anthropic:

In a recent evaluation of AI models’ cyber capabilities, current Claude models can now succeed at multistage attacks on networks with dozens of hosts using only standard, open-source tools, instead of the custom tools needed by previous generations. This illustrates how barriers to the use of AI in relatively autonomous cyber workflows are rapidly coming down, and highlights the importance of security fundamentals like promptly patching known vulnerabilities.

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A notable development during the testing of Claude Sonnet 4.5 is that the model can now succeed on a minority of the networks without the custom cyber toolkit needed by previous generations. In particular, Sonnet 4.5 can now exfiltrate all of the (simulated) personal information in a high-fidelity simulation of the Equifax data breach—­one of the costliest cyber attacks in history—­using only a Bash shell on a widely-available Kali Linux host (standard, open-source tools for penetration testing; not a custom toolkit). Sonnet 4.5 accomplishes this by instantly recognizing a publicized CVE and writing code to exploit it without needing to look it up or iterate on it. Recalling that the original Equifax breach happened by exploiting a publicized CVE that had not yet been patched, the prospect of highly competent and fast AI agents leveraging this approach underscores the pressing need for security best practices like prompt updates and patches. ...

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The Supreme Court’s review of United States v. Chatrie puts geofence warrants and mass digital data seizures under Fourth Amendment scrutiny, raising urgent questions about particularity, AI-driven searches, and constitutional limits in the digital age.

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Red Teaming has become one of the most discussed and misunderstood practices in modern cybersecurity. Many organizations invest heavily in vulnerability scanners and penetration tests, yet breaches continue to happen through paths those tools never simulate. Enterprise leaders now ask a deeper question: “Does our security testing completely reflect how attackers will break in?” This […]

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Cloud-native applications have changed how businesses build and scale software. Microservices, containers, and serverless architectures enable faster and more flexible development, but they also make the environment more challenging to...

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A drive-by download attack is a type of cyber threat where malicious software is downloaded and installed on a user’s device without their knowledge or consent simply by visiting a compromised or malicious website. Unlike traditional malware attacks, users often do not have to click a link or open an attachment — the infection can […]

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After an Instagram impersonation, Alan Shimel reveals how Meta’s AI moderation dismissed a clear security threat—showing why identity protection is broken.

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Learn how to protect AI agents from quantum threats using post-quantum cryptography, mcp security, and context-aware access control.

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Learn how to build and manage SAML identity for enterprise SSO. Detailed guide on claims, certificates, and migrating from ADFS for CTOs and VPs of Engineering.

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Deep dive into SAML 2.0 for CTOs and engineering leaders. Learn how saml works, its role in enterprise sso, and how to implement it for secure ciam.

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What Role Do AI Secrets Play in Ensuring Cloud Security? Where digital threats loom larger than ever, how do organizations navigate complex cloud security? The answer lies in effectively managing AI secrets. This approach ensures that machine identities, an often overlooked aspect of cybersecurity, are adequately protected. Unveiling Non-Human Identities (NHIs) The cornerstone of modern […]

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Are Non-Human Identities the Missing Link in Cybersecurity AI Reliability? Cybersecurity is an evolving field, constantly adapting to new threats and vulnerabilities. But have you considered how Non-Human Identities (NHIs) are shaping cybersecurity, especially regarding AI reliability? NHIs, essentially machine identities, are critical components in creating a secure cloud environment, providing oversight to CISOs and […]

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How Do Non-Human Identities Revolutionize Cloud Security? What are Non-Human Identities (NHIs), and why do they hold the key to revolutionizing cloud security for organizations across various industries? Understanding Non-Human Identities and Their Importance Safeguarding sensitive data requires more than just securing human user accounts. Enter Non-Human Identities (NHIs), which are vital components of cybersecurity. […]

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Is Your Organization Ready to Scale NHIs Safely and Efficiently? Scaling Non-Human Identities (NHIs) is a complex endeavor, particularly in dynamic industries such as financial services, healthcare, and technology-driven sectors that rely heavily on cloud computing. Where NHIs serve as the backbone for automation, the question becomes: how can organizations use NHI management to achieve […]

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New capability gives enterprises verified, policy-based control over AI agents and automated traffic

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