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Romania’s land registry hit by cyber attack, data allegedly for sale

Romania’s National Agency for Cadastre and Land Registration (ANCPI) suffered a major disruption on Tuesday, July 14, when its e-Terra cadastre and land registry app became unavailable to users. What was first declared to be a “major technical incident” has now been confirmed as a cyber attack. While the circumstances are still being investigated by the competent state institutions, ANCPI stated that the data administered through its IT systems has not been compromised as a … More → The post Romania’s land registry hit by cyber attack, data allegedly for sale appeared first on Help Net Security.
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Tenable One unifies code risks with enterprise exposure data

Tenable has announced the expansion of the Tenable One Exposure Management Platform, unifying application security risks with all other exposure data. By integrating static code vulnerability data, Tenable One delivers complete, code-to-runtime visibility across the entire attack surface. Security teams have long struggled with a code security problem where vulnerable code reaches production faster than it can be reviewed. This problem is exacerbated by the use of generative AI, which empowers developers to ship code … More → The post Tenable One unifies code risks with enterprise exposure data appeared first on Help Net Security.
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Lineation.ai focuses on runtime security for autonomous AI agents

Lineation.ai has announced the public launch of its comprehensive agentic security platform. Delivering a solution at the intersection of GenAI Application Security and Runtime Defense, Lineation introduces a Zero Trust unified control plane and a lightweight endpoint daemon that secures autonomous AI agents directly at execution. As enterprises adopt autonomous AI agents that read sensitive data, call APIs, and execute workflows, traditional static perimeters and standard LLM gateways fall blind. By assigning a Zero Trust … More → The post Lineation.ai focuses on runtime security for autonomous AI agents appeared first on Help Net Security.
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Microsoft makes Windows SSO prompts easier to manage

Microsoft is introducing a new registry-based policy that lets IT administrators automatically accept Windows SSO permissions on Windows 11 versions 24H2 and 25H2 devices managed with Microsoft Entra ID. Users with personal Microsoft accounts and devices outside policy-managed environments will continue to receive SSO permission prompts. Admin control for SSO prompts in Windows (Source: Microsoft) Why Microsoft introduced it In the European Economic Area (EEA), Microsoft changed the Windows sign-in experience so users can choose … More → The post Microsoft makes Windows SSO prompts easier to manage appeared first on Help Net Security.
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Police take down investment fraud network that stole €100 million a month

Dutch police, working alongside Belgian authorities and Europol, have dismantled a major criminal network accused of operating a global investment fraud scheme through dozens of fraudulent call centers. Investigators estimate the organization generated more than €100 million a month by targeting victims in multiple countries. The group operated around 20 call centers staffed by more than 700 people posing as financial advisers. The main suspect, a 46-year-old man with Israeli and Polish citizenship, was arrested … More → The post Police take down investment fraud network that stole €100 million a month appeared first on Help Net Security.
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VS Code agent host runs Copilot, Claude, and Codex in a dedicated process

Developers who lean on AI coding agents often keep several editor windows open at once, each tied to its own session. The 1.129 release of Visual Studio Code reworks that setup with a dedicated agent host. A dedicated process for agent sessions The agent host is a separate process that runs agent harnesses such as Copilot, Claude, and Codex, built on the Agent Host Protocol. Because a session lives in its own process, one session … More → The post VS Code agent host runs Copilot, Claude, and Codex in a dedicated process appeared first on Help Net Security.
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Reading between the lines of a cyber insurance policy

Enterprises in regulated industries often carry cyber insurance policies because contracts require it or boards ask for documented risk transfer. The global market for these policies reached about $16 billion in premiums in 2024. Coverage has become widespread. Payouts have grown less predictable. The gap between exposure and coverage The Global Federation of Insurance Associations, which represents insurers accounting for close to 90 percent of premiums worldwide, quantified the cyber protection gap at about $900 … More → The post Reading between the lines of a cyber insurance policy appeared first on Help Net Security.
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What public money does to open-source projects

Most of the software running inside a typical company was written by volunteers the company never paid. Open-source code sits under web apps, build pipelines, and the machine learning stacks getting so much attention right now. Roughly 96 percent of codebases carry some of it. That dependence turned visible in December 2021, when the log4j flaw exposed applications from Twitter to Minecraft. The xz utils backdoor of 2024 drove the point home again. Both traced … More → The post What public money does to open-source projects appeared first on Help Net Security.
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