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cnspec: Open-source, cloud-native security and policy project

cnspec is an open source tool that helps when you are trying to keep a sprawling setup of clouds, containers, APIs and endpoints under control. It checks security and compliance across all of it, which makes it easier to see what needs attention. At its core, cnspec looks for vulnerabilities and misconfigurations across public and private cloud environments, Kubernetes clusters, containers, container registries, servers, endpoints, SaaS products, infrastructure as code and APIs. It uses a … More → The post cnspec: Open-source, cloud-native security and policy project appeared first on Help Net Security.
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The privacy tension driving the medical data shift nobody wants to talk about

Most people assume their medical data sits in quiet storage, protected by familiar rules. That belief gives a sense of safety, but new research argues that the world around healthcare data has changed faster than the policies meant to guide it. As a result, the system is stuck, and the cost of that stagnation is rising for patients, researchers, and innovators. The paper, written by experts from major U.S. medical institutions, examines how healthcare’s privacy-centric … More → The post The privacy tension driving the medical data shift nobody wants to talk about appeared first on Help Net Security.
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What happens when vulnerability scores fall apart?

Security leaders depend on vulnerability data to guide decisions, but the system supplying that data is struggling. An analysis from Sonatype shows that core vulnerability indexes no longer deliver the consistency or speed needed for the current software environment. A system that no longer keeps pace The CVE program still serves as the industry’s naming backbone, and the NVD remains a primary source for severity ratings. These tools were built for an era of slower … More → The post What happens when vulnerability scores fall apart? appeared first on Help Net Security.
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Email blind spots are back to bite security teams

The threat landscape is forcing CISOs to rethink what they consider normal. The latest Cybersecurity Report 2026 by Hornetsecurity, based on analysis of more than 70 billion emails and broad threat telemetry, shows attackers adopting automation, AI driven social engineering, and new evasion techniques at scale. Email becomes a more dangerous channel Email remains the primary entry point for compromise. Malware in email increased by more than 130% year over year. Scams rose by more … More → The post Email blind spots are back to bite security teams appeared first on Help Net Security.
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