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Black Hills Information Security

US penetration testing and security consultancy known for its training work and open-source offensive tooling.

Known aliases

  • BHIS

Current stories

securityOne report1 publisher

AI coding agents hosted more than 13,000 internal screenshots in public GitHub repos

Glow researchers found AI coding agents posted more than 13,000 internal screenshots to public GitHub repositories across more than 300 organizations. Each agent was answering a developer's request, and Glow says 93% of the cases it reviewed sat in personal accounts.

Reality

Evidence45
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+15
Incentives55
Confidence50
securityConfirmed3 publishers

Forescout's 47,700-segment census finds OT isolated in 13% of the segments that carry it

The Sept. 22 study of 2.5 million devices in 209 organizations found cameras alone in 51 of 2,266 camera segments, and Black Hills Information Security's John Strand says the true isolation rate is lower.

Perspective Coverage

3 publishers
Builder
Builder 18%
Operator
Operator 74%
Investor
Investor 8%

Reality

Evidence64
Adoption58
Hype gap+8
Incentives76
Confidence70
securityOne report1 publisher

Black Duck's Boris Cipot names Microsoft, Google, Amazon and Cloudflare as Rust adopters in production

A year on from the CISA and NSA memory-safety report, the adoption evidence is still provider roadmaps and practitioner judgement about C and C++ code that nobody proposes to rewrite wholesale.

Reality

Evidence45
Adoption35
Hype gap+20
Incentives70
Confidence50
securityOne report1 publisher

CVE-2026-84869 lets an attacker run files inside a live ScreenConnect session

The bug lets files be pushed and executed through a remote session the host already approved, and CISA says attackers are doing it now. It is ScreenConnect's fourth entry on the KEV catalog since 2024.

Publishers:scworld.com

Reality

Evidence62
Adoption42
Hype gap+18
Incentives68
Confidence58