data security

Information moves across cloud platforms, personal devices, and AI tools, often faster than security teams can track it. Proofpoint’s 2025 Data Security Landscape report shows …

At Help Net Security, we’ve been tracking the cybersecurity world for nearly three decades. Through our Industry News section, we’ve watched countless companies rise, and push …

Most research on LLM privacy has focused on the wrong problem, according to a new paper by researchers from Carnegie Mellon University and Northeastern University. The authors …

Sensitive data is moving through Android healthcare apps without adequate protection. Researchers found that many transmit information without encryption, store files without …

A new academic study proposes a way to design privacy mechanisms that can make use of prior knowledge about how data is distributed, even when that information is incomplete. …

A new security posture report on the biotech sector shows how quickly attackers could reach sensitive health data with only basic reconnaissance. Researchers needed less than …

Western Digital has fixed a critical remote code execution vulnerability (CVE-2025-30247) in the firmware powering its My Cloud network-attached storage (NAS) devices, and has …

Sensitive data is everywhere and growing fast. A new report from Concentric AI highlights how unstructured data, duplicate files, and risky sharing practices are creating …

In this Help Net Security interview, Marco Goldberg, Managing Director at EQS Group, discusses how compliance and regulation are evolving worldwide. He talks about how …

Boards and executives are not asking for another feed of indicators. They want to know whether their organization is being targeted, how exposed they are, and what steps need …

A new study has found that electrocardiogram (ECG) signals, often shared publicly for medical research, can be linked back to individuals. Researchers were able to re-identify …

You type your email address into a website form but never hit submit. Hours later, a marketing email shows up in your inbox. According to new research, that is not a …