Security News

Europe's largest caravan club admits wide array of personal data potentially accessed
2024-02-12 12:45

The Caravan and Motorhome Club and the experts it drafted to help clean up the mess caused by a January cyberattack still can't figure out whether members' data was stolen. According to an update shared with members late last week and now published on its website, the CAMC listed all the different types of data that might have been accessed, and all the data that definitely wasn't, but remained firmly on the fence as to whether any theft actually took place.

Hyundai Motor Europe hit by Black Basta ransomware attack
2024-02-08 20:16

Car maker Hyundai Motor Europe suffered a Black Basta ransomware attack, with the threat actors claiming to have stolen three terabytes of corporate data."Hyundai Motor Europe is experiencing IT issues, which the company is working to resolve as quickly as possible," Hyundai told BleepingComputer at the time.

Major IT outage at Europe's largest caravan and RV club makes for not-so-happy campers
2024-01-24 17:30

The UK's Caravan and Motorhome Club is battling a suspected cyberattack with members reporting widespread IT outages for the past five days. Multiple CAMC members approached The Register to complain about the outages, which according to their accounts have caused near-total digital disruption at the company that represents 1 million members.

Red Hat: UK Leads Europe in IT Automation, But Key Challenges Persist
2023-11-14 21:45

The U.K.'s position as a financial services hub puts it ahead in enterprise-wide IT automation, says Red Hat. Red Hat's report, Thriving through change with enterprise-wide IT automation, surveyed 1,200 IT leaders in the aforementioned four countries about the role of automation in their businesses and the challenges they faced in adopting new technologies.

Bad eIDAS: Europe ready to intercept, spy on your encrypted HTTPS connections
2023-11-08 08:27

One of the requirements of eIDAS 2.0 is that browser makers trust government-approved Certificate Authorities and do not implement security controls beyond those specified by the European Telecommunications Standards Institute. When a browser visits that site, the website presents a public portion of its CA-issued certificate to the browser, and the browser checks the cert was indeed issued by one of the CAs it trusts, using the root certificate, and is correct for that site.

Meta Launches Paid Ad-Free Subscription in Europe to Satisfy Privacy Laws
2023-10-31 06:29

Meta on Monday announced plans to offer an ad-free option to access Facebook and Instagram for users in the European Union (EU), European Economic Area (EEA), and Switzerland to comply with...

Week in review: Patch Tuesday forecast, 9 free ransomware guides, Cybertech Europe 2023
2023-10-08 08:30

Cybertech Europe 2023 video walkthroughIn this Help Net Security video, we take you inside Cybertech Europe 2023 at La Nuvola Convention Center in Rome. Tackling cyber risks head-on using security questionnairesIn this Help Net Security interview, Gaspard de Lacroix-Vaubois, CEO at Skypher, talks about the implementation of security questionnaires and how they facilitate assessments and accountability across all participants in the technology supply chain, fostering trust and safeguarding sensitive data.

Cybertech Europe 2023 video walkthrough
2023-10-04 09:15

In this Help Net Security video, we take you inside Cybertech Europe 2023 at La Nuvola Convention Center in Rome. The video features the following vendors: Accenture, Armis, Atlantica, Cisco,...

Photos: Cybertech Europe 2023
2023-10-03 13:35

The Cybertech Europe conference and exhibition takes place at La Nuvola Convention Center in Rome, and features the latest innovative solutions from dozens of companies and speakers, including senior government officials, C-level executives, and industry trailblazers from Europe and around the world. Conference sessions cover various topics and touch upon different sectors - from security to logistics, through finance, education, and health.

Norway wants Facebook behavioral advertising banned across Europe
2023-09-29 13:45

Norway has told the European Data Protection Board it believes a countrywide ban on Meta harvesting user data to serve up advertising on Facebook and Instagram should be made permanent and extended across Europe. The Scandinavian country's Data Protection Authority, Datatilsynet, had been holding back Facebook parent Meta from scooping up data on its citizens with the threat of fines of one million Kroner per day if it didn't comply.