Can AI Lower the Barrier to Cybersecurity? A Human-Centered Mixed-Methods Study of Novice CTF Learning

Capture-the-Flag CTF competitions serve as gateways into offensive cybersecurity, yet they often present steep barriers for novices due to complex toolchains and opaque workflows. Recently, agentic AI frameworks for cybersecurity promise to lower these barriers by automating and coordinating...

WordPress Pushes Out Multiple Flawed Security Updates

The day after WordPress pushed out a critical 5.5.2 security update, patching a remote code execution bug and nine additional flaws, it was forced push out a second update and then a third 5.5.3 update. The hiccup is tied to the WordPress auto-update feature that accidentally started sending 455...