"In February 2024, a ransomware attack on Change Healthcare disrupted medical claims processing for nearly half of all U.S. health care transactions. The breach cost UnitedHealth Group over $2.8 billion, exposed the personal data of 190 million Americans, and forced hospitals nationwide to delay patient care. The cause? A remote access portal without multi-factor authentication. As one senator put it: “This hack could have been stopped with cybersecurity 101.”

To support critical infrastructure organizations in defending against cyber threats, the United States and six partner nations have released new cybersecurity guidance aimed at operators of operational technology (OT). The recommendations address a wide range of best practices, including isolating networks and improving system monitoring and logging.

Agentic AI browsers like OpenAI’s Atlas have launched to significant excitement. They automate web tasks, letting users accomplish goals by simply stating what they want, from compiling competitor briefs to filling forms or scheduling meetings. But this shift brings a new reality: agentic browsers dramatically expand the enterprise attack surface. As the web moves from something we browse to something that acts on our behalf, and often with elevated privileges, these tools introduce a fundamental change in trust, risk, and security.

21st International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering, Submission Deadline: January 05, 2026. The event will be of hybrid nature, in the sense that, online presentations of accepted papers will be possible for those authors that are unable to travel to the venue.