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Sovereignty vs. security: Microsoft’s Roger Halbheer says you’re asking the wrong question

Sovereignty vs. security: Microsoft’s Roger Halbheer says you’re asking the wrong question 2026-10-22 at 10:02 By Mirko Zorz In this interview with Help Net Security, Roger Halbheer, Customer Security Officer at Microsoft, argues that digital sovereignty is a security question first. He explains why organizations underestimate speed, the time it takes to detect and stop […]

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Privacy-preserving AI can protect your heart data, the bill is the problem

Privacy-preserving AI can protect your heart data, the bill is the problem 2026-10-21 at 10:02 By Mirko Zorz A heart monitor used to be a box beside a hospital bed. Electrodes fed a cable, the cable fed a screen, and a nurse watched the screen. The threat model fit on a sticky note. Cardiac care […]

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Why Active Directory weaknesses stay open for years in teams with one or two admins

Why Active Directory weaknesses stay open for years in teams with one or two admins 2026-10-16 at 09:00 By Mirko Zorz David Fuhr, CTO at intcube, talks about a security cohort for public administration, where 27 municipalities hardened Windows Server and Active Directory together over 12 weeks. This Help Net Security interview covers how a […]

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Refrigeration Controller Hack Spoils Food Across European Supermarkets

Refrigeration Controller Hack Spoils Food Across European Supermarkets 2026-10-13 at 11:28 By Ionut Arghire A cyberattack targeted refrigeration controllers, setting refrigerators and freezers across hundreds of supermarkets to defrost. The post Refrigeration Controller Hack Spoils Food Across European Supermarkets appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from SecurityWeek View Original Source

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Cyberattacks hit European grocers: French supermarket freezers hijacked, Dutch and Belgian stores disrupted

Cyberattacks hit European grocers: French supermarket freezers hijacked, Dutch and Belgian stores disrupted 2026-10-12 at 19:07 By Zeljka Zorz European food retailers have been affected by two separate disruptive cyberattacks: In France, several supermarket chains have had their freezers tampered with and chilled/frozen products destroyed, while in the Netherlands and Belgium workers at stores owned […]

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Thousands of wind and solar park systems sit exposed on the internet across Europe

Thousands of wind and solar park systems sit exposed on the internet across Europe 2026-10-09 at 08:30 By Mirko Zorz Modat and NCSC-NL, the Dutch government’s cybersecurity center, found 8,547 internet-facing systems at wind farms and solar parks in 35 countries in and around the EU that should not be reachable from the internet. The […]

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Suspected state-sponsored hackers exploited NetScaler zero-day since early September (CVE-2026-88772)

Suspected state-sponsored hackers exploited NetScaler zero-day since early September (CVE-2026-88772) 2026-09-30 at 15:33 By Zeljka Zorz “Advanced and suspected state-sponsored threat actors” are likely to be behind the initial targeted intrusions that leveraged CVE-2026-88772, one of the two recently disclosed NetScaler vulnerabilities that have been exploited as zero-days, says Mandiant CTO Charles Carmakal. Mandiant and […]

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Europe’s technology backbone is becoming a cyber target

Europe’s technology backbone is becoming a cyber target 2026-09-24 at 07:00 By Anamarija Pogorelec Disruptive attacks on public-facing services, financially motivated cybercrime and compromises of shared technology providers are increasing cybersecurity risks across Europe. ENISA’s Threat Landscape 2026 identifies cybercrime, state-linked activity, foreign information manipulation and interference, hacktivism and vulnerability exploitation as key threats. Geopolitical […]

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European AI spending is on track to reach nearly $470 billion by 2030

European AI spending is on track to reach nearly $470 billion by 2030 2026-09-22 at 07:30 By Mirko Zorz European organizations will spend nearly $470 billion on AI in 2030, IDC forecasts, with spending growing at a compound annual rate of 35% from 2025. At that rate, the market more than quadruples in five years. […]

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Self-improving AI should slow down, von der Leyen tells EU lawmakers

Self-improving AI should slow down, von der Leyen tells EU lawmakers 2026-09-16 at 14:28 By Mirko Zorz European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen wants frontier AI development slowed, and said on Wednesday that she will invite the leading AI labs to discuss how the EU can support their own efforts to do that. In […]

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ENISA launched the CRA Single Reporting Platform for actively exploited vulnerabilities

ENISA launched the CRA Single Reporting Platform for actively exploited vulnerabilities 2026-09-14 at 15:23 By Sinisa Markovic The EU Agency for Cybersecurity switched on the Cyber Resilience Act‘s Single Reporting Platform on 11 September 2026, the same day the law’s reporting obligations started binding manufacturers. ENISA built the tool and runs its day-to-day operations, a […]

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A battery storage cyberattack would look exactly like a badly tuned controller

A battery storage cyberattack would look exactly like a badly tuned controller 2026-09-02 at 12:00 By Mirko Zorz Batteries connected to the grid make money by reacting to frequency, pushing power out when it sags and soaking it up when it rises. A few hundred of them moving together, on command from someone who should […]

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Scareware ads keep running on Google’s transparency tool, even after they’re reported

Scareware ads keep running on Google’s transparency tool, even after they’re reported 2026-09-02 at 08:30 By Mirko Zorz A team of NYU and Radboud University researchers spent a year building a tool to find deceptive software ads inside Google’s public ad archive. It works. It also exposed something more uncomfortable: reporting a bad ad to […]

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Askeal, the AI cybersecurity assistant that gives verifiable, expert-backed answers

Askeal, the AI cybersecurity assistant that gives verifiable, expert-backed answers 2026-09-01 at 08:30 By Mirko Zorz Askeal takes the opposite approach to omniscient Gen AI: rather than pretending to know everything, it combines AI with community expertise. Vetted vendors, researchers, and practitioners contribute their intelligence and tools to help users conduct manual investigations. The startup, […]

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NIS2 compliance: Fixing IAM and access control before the 2026 audit

NIS2 compliance: Fixing IAM and access control before the 2026 audit 2026-09-01 at 08:00 By Help Net Security The NIS2 Directive places direct obligations on organizations across supply chain risk management, incident reporting, and board-level accountability. October brings a new wave of legally binding deadlines across the EU, as member states move from transposition into […]

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AI will not fix a governance problem in your camera estate

AI will not fix a governance problem in your camera estate 2026-08-27 at 08:30 By Mirko Zorz Camera systems often outlive the companies that install them. In this Help Net Security interview, Rob Janssens, EMEA Cyber Security Director at Hikvision Europe, discusses what happens when the integrator is gone, the documentation is lost, and nobody […]

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Banks look for fraud signals in customer behavior

Banks look for fraud signals in customer behavior 2026-08-19 at 07:30 By Anamarija Pogorelec Banks are dealing with more fraud in which customers authorize payments after being manipulated by criminals. ThreatMark’s Fraud Readiness Benchmark 2026 describes a banking environment where social engineering, reimbursement requirements and growing case volumes are changing fraud operations. Social engineering moves […]

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17 draft Cyber Resilience Act standards are open for comment

17 draft Cyber Resilience Act standards are open for comment 2026-08-14 at 07:30 By Anamarija Pogorelec A company selling a connected toy in Europe must show by the end of 2027 that the product meets the Cyber Resilience Act. The law states what manufacturers have to achieve and stops there, which leaves the toymaker to […]

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Ransomware Threats in Europe H1 2026: A Deep Dive into Regional Attack Patterns and Dominant Threat Actors

Ransomware Threats in Europe H1 2026: A Deep Dive into Regional Attack Patterns and Dominant Threat Actors 2026-08-07 at 13:58 By Mihir Bagwe Europe faced a ransomware onslaught in the first half of 2026 that sets a troubling precedent for the remainder of the year. According to Cyble Research and Intelligence Labs (CRIL), the region […]

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What the first year of EU AI Act transparency enforcement could look like

What the first year of EU AI Act transparency enforcement could look like 2026-08-07 at 08:30 By Mirko Zorz In this Help Net Security interview, Edwin Weijdema, Field CTO at Veeam, answers questions on Article 50 of the EU AI Act and what the first year of enforcement might bring. He explains why corrective orders […]

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