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'Help Net Security' (helpnetsecurity.com) May Have Become a Slopfarm as Well

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Oct 17, 2025

Zeljka Zorz, Editor-in-Chief at Help Net Security, was reported to us

Help Net Security

In Slopwatch we name (and shame) some of the more/most prolific slopfarms, with focus on those that target "Linux" and related themes. "There are so many of them these days," one reader told us, "and this AI thing is encouraging even more to "write" articles "borrowed" from others."

That lessens the incentive to do original work.

"Here's another example," said the reader, comparing this from the Editor-in-Chief at Help Net Security to a piece published around the same time:

Kali Linux 2025.3 Penetration Testing Distro Introduces 10 New Hacking Tools

Compare to:

Kali Linux 2025.3 brings improved virtual machine tooling, 10 new tools

Aside from similarity in headlines, see what Help Net Security's text is deemed to be:

The way Kali builds and ships its VM images has been updated, they improved their scripts and workflows to be more consistent and easier to manage.

The NetHunter (mobile penetration testing) and CARsenal (car hacking) toolkits have been updated and improved, support for ARMel architecture has been dropped, and OffSec has made Xfce’s VPN-IP panel plugin configurable to make life easier for users.

From now on we'll more closely monitor what Help Net Security does. Maybe it got lazy and "sloppy".

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