Week in review: Accenture data breach, great open-source cybersecurity tools
Week in review: Accenture data breach, great open-source cybersecurity tools
Publish Date: 2026-07-12 04:00:00
Source Domain: www.helpnetsecurity.com
Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, articles, interviews and videos:
Securing the inbox: Where identity, brand and security meet
Getting a verified logo to appear next to your email has traditionally meant having to work with two separate entities. You have to work with a DMARC partner for setting up DMARC and BIMI, then use a trusted Certificate Authority (CA) to purchase a Mark Certificate, and this means having to source a trusted partner for both which delays the project unnecessarily. Red Sift and GlobalSign have now folded both halves into a single package.
Researchers make the case for a cybersecurity AI scientist
Autonomous AI agents have started doing real security work. Language-model agents probe software for flaws, run penetration tests, and chain together attack steps that once needed a human operator. Research about security has stayed slower and more manual, built around expert scarcity and hand-designed experiments. A team at the Chinese Academy of Sciences wants to close that gap. In a recent paper, they define what they term the Cybersecurity AI Scientist. They describe a research system that moves from a question to experimental design, tool building, controlled execution, evaluation, and a written result on its own.
OpenAI and Anthropic are pulling in different directions
Companies are handing routine operational decisions to AI agents that plan, remember, and act on their behalf. These agents run on statistical models, and their behavior can drift across weeks and months. That drift opens a security gap outside the reach of standard monitoring tools. A study of about 1,080 open job postings at OpenAI and Anthropic maps where the two largest AI labs are taking this technology.
Orbia CISO Miranda Ritchie on building security into sustainable infrastructure
In this interview with Help Net Security, Miranda Ritchie, CISO at Orbia, talks about protecting industrial systems where software runs water,…
