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Navigating SEC, NIS2, and DORA incident disclosure timelines under pressure

In this Help Net Security video, Rick Goud, Global Field CTO at Kiteworks, discusses how to handle SEC, NIS2, and DORA disclosure timelines during a security incident. He …

compliance
EU Cybersecurity Act 2.0: When good regulation goes bad

Over recent years we’ve witnessed the EU becoming increasingly serious about cybersecurity. After years of watching high profile breaches, many resulting from supply chain …

Europe
Europe’s digital identity wallet gets its first set of standards

People across the European Union already use their phones for banking, travel, and government services. The European Digital Identity Wallet will bring those activities into …

car tire
General Motors to pay $12.75 million over driver data sales

General Motors has agreed to a $12.75 million settlement with California over allegations that it unlawfully sold drivers’ location and behavioral data to brokers, …

Škoda
Škoda confirms unauthorized access to its online shop

Car manufacturer Škoda discovered that attackers had exploited a vulnerability in its online shop software and gained temporary unauthorized access to the system. What …

Eye
US state privacy fines reached $3.425 billion in 2025

State privacy regulators across the United States collected $3.425 billion in privacy-related fines from companies in 2025. Gartner said the upward trend is expected to …

Android
A study of 1,000 Android apps finds a privacy policy logging gap

Android developers write log statements for the same reasons they always have: debugging crashes, tracing performance issues, and understanding how features behave in …

Kumar Ravi
What managing partners should ask AI vendors before signing any contract

In this Help Net Security interview, Kumar Ravi, Chief Security & Resilience Officer at TMF Group, argues that over-privileged access and weak workflow controls pose more …

Comp AI
Comp AI: The open-source way to get compliant with SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA and GDPR

Getting a startup through a SOC 2 audit has long meant months of manual evidence collection, policy writing, and repeated back-and-forth with auditors. A growing number of …

internet
Your APIs are under siege, and attackers are just getting warmed up

Internet-facing systems are handling sustained levels of malicious traffic across APIs, web applications, and DDoS channels. Akamai’s State of the Internet security report …

Europe
EU Parliament backs extension of CSAM detection rules until 2027

The European Parliament has voted to extend a temporary exemption to EU privacy legislation that allows online platforms to voluntarily detect child sexual abuse material …

healthcare data
Healthcare organizations are accepting cyber risk to cut costs

Healthcare organizations are cutting cybersecurity budgets under financial pressure even as the threats targeting their systems intensify. A PwC survey of 381 global …

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