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servers
Police seize over 100 servers linked to investment fraud with more than €4 million in losses

Seven people have been arrested and more than 100 servers seized in a coordinated law enforcement action against an investment fraud network that started unravelling after a …

Germany
345,000 email addresses stolen in cyberattack on Germany’s far-right party AfD

Over 345,000 unique email addresses were exposed in the September 2026 breach at German far-right political party Alternative für Deutschland (AfD). Breach notification …

University of Copenhagen
Cyberattack on University of Copenhagen exposes data of 525,000 people

The University of Copenhagen (UCPH) has ruled out a second cyberattack, saying the activity that led it to shut down several administrative systems on Monday is tied to the …

undersea cable
UK proposes 14-year jail terms for subsea cable saboteurs

Damaging a cable on the seabed off the UK coast could soon cost someone 14 years of their life behind bars, under plans the British government published this week. The …

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

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 …

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

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 …

attack
Phase Eight, Hobbs and Whistles owner joins growing list of fashion retailers targeted by hackers

People who have shopped with Phase Eight, Hobbs or Whistles will have to wait to find out whether their personal information was exposed in a cyberattack on the company behind …

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

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 …

data breach
ASOS confirms data breach after “hacked” app alert reaches shoppers

UK fashion retailer ASOS has confirmed a data breach after a notification claiming hackers had broken into its data was sent to shoppers through its app. ASOS was founded in …

data breach
Data breach at Denmark’s population register exposes 8.8 million people

A data breach at Denmark’s Central Population Register (CPR) has exposed the personal information of 8.8 million people. These include people living in Denmark, deceased …

MAKERphone 2
MAKERphone 2: A DIY 4G phone with plug-in camera, speaker and prototyping board

CircuitMess, a Croatian electronics kit maker, is selling MAKERphone 2.0, a build-it-yourself 4G phone on Kickstarter that buyers program in MicroPython or Arduino C++ and …

leader
In this new SME cybersecurity service, the AI assists and the consultants decide

BH Consulting, the Irish cybersecurity and data protection consultancy, has launched BH Haven, an ongoing service that gives Irish small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) …

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