Large DDoS attack knocks Norwegian public services offline
A distributed denial-of-service attack disrupted Norwegian public services, forcing the Digitalisation Agency to work with its IT partner to restore affected systems. Services have begun gradually returning to normal as recovery efforts continue.
AI adoption has become pervasive across the security vendor landscape at Black Hat, with nearly every vendor in key categories like identity, SaaS, AppSec, and data management leading with AI capabilities, though many vendors still downplay AI in their messaging. The market reveals a fundamental trichotomy: detection tools that reveal problems, prevention tools that stop adversaries, and remediation tools that fix issues—yet detection-only solutions paradoxically dominate the vendor ecosystem despite their limited ability to actually address threats.
HOL Guard is an open-source security tool designed to intercept and validate potentially risky actions from AI assistants before execution, operating locally without uploading files or requiring internet connectivity. The lightweight tool installs quickly and performs security checks in under 50 milliseconds, giving users manual control over whether suspicious AI operations proceed. It addresses security concerns for users of AI coding assistants like Claude Code by adding a human-in-the-loop safeguard against unintended or malicious AI agent behavior.
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