Governance also applies to how AI agents interact with enterprise data. Unlike traditional AI assistants, these systems retrieve information, interact with business applications, and complete tasks for users. They require the same access controls, monitoring, and audit capabilities as human users. Zero trust must apply throughout the AI lifecycle, especially during inference, when models access...Read More
security Phishers find a new use for invisible Unicode tag characters Fraudsters have found a new use for ASCII smuggling, typically used to hide malicious prompts intended for AI models, in an old-school attack method: email phishing. Microsoft uncovered a massive phishing campaign using invisible Unicode tag characters that peaked at more than 2.37 million...Read More
Turn any phone, tablet, or computer into an AI workstation — the AI does the work on its own hardware and never touches the data on your main device. SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 4, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — TrustKernel, an AI security and privacy computing company, today announced that PlugClaw has begun shipping worldwide, moving from pre-order...Read More
In this Help Net Security video, Roy Katmor, co-founder and CEO of Orchid, explains why AI agents hold credentials that nobody reviews. Organizations build agents in AI studios, connect them to enterprise tools, and give them accounts to do useful work. The agent is approved, the studio is approved, but the identities behind them sit...Read More
AIR emerged from stealth through its September 1, 2026 launch post, presenting a firewall intended to filter untrusted material before it enters an AI agent’s context. The product targets add-ons, websites and internal data encountered by enterprise agents across endpoint, cloud and software-as-a-service environments. New York-based AIR launched with $50 million raised in two rounds:...Read More
The OpenAI-Hugging Face incident was a wake-up call for cyber defenders. During an internal cybersecurity evaluation, AI agents identified paths beyond their intended environment and accessed production infrastructure belonging to a third-party organization. The incident highlighted a challenge security teams increasingly need to prepare for: capable AI agents can identify weaknesses, connect multiple gaps and...Read More
ThinkCentre X Ultra and ThinkCentre M75 Series desktops deliver scalable Hybrid AI performance for the agentic AI era. ThinkBook 14 Gen 9 brings powerful on-device AI and Copilot+ PC experiences to professionals. ThinkBook 14x Gen 2 delivers premium mobility in an ultra-thin, lightweight design built for everyday productivity. Project AeroBlade and Project Swan proof-of-concepts explore the future of AI-powered business...Read More
Netskope shares surged more than 10% in premarket trading Wednesday after the cloud and AI security vendor delivered fiscal second-quarter results that beat Wall Street forecasts and raised its full-year outlook, powered by accelerating demand for tools that protect artificial intelligence systems. The Santa Clara, California-based company posted revenue of $221 million for the period,...Read More
Canonical recently joined the Linux Foundation’s Open Secure AI Alliance to help make open-source security tools for AI systems and autonomous agents. The alliance formed in July 2026 in response to the security breach at Hugging Face, when OpenAI models undergoing a safety test broke out of their sandbox to access Hugging Face’s systems –...Read More
Earlier this year NVIDIA led an effort with more than two dozen other companies to launch the Open Secure AI Alliance with a focus on keeping open-source AI models secure. The Open Secure AI Alliance today is transitioning from being stewarded by NVIDIA to becoming a Linux Foundation project. When the Open Secure AI Alliance...Read More
