Collaborate Disseminate
When the pandemic kept people at home in 2020, millions turned to games for an escape. The surge turned every console, PC, and phone into part of a vast online network. More players meant more logins, payments, and personal data. That created a target … Continue reading DDoS, data theft, and malware are storming the gaming industry
Voice cloning has become fast, cheap, and convincing. With only a few minutes of recorded speech, generative models can recreate a person’s voice with matching tone, rhythm, and accent. To address that risk, a research team at Texas Tech University tes… Continue reading Smart helmet tech points to the future of fighting audio deepfakes
Large language models depend on outside tools to perform real-world tasks, but connecting them to those tools often slows them down or causes failures. A new study from the University of Hong Kong proposes a way to fix that. The research team developed… Continue reading Faster LLM tool routing comes with new security considerations
Smartwatches, glucose sensors, and connected drug-monitoring devices are common in care programs. Remote monitoring helps detect changes early and supports personalized treatment and long-term condition management. They give clinicians valuable insight… Continue reading Your wearable knows your heartbeat, but who else does?
ESET researchers have uncovered a fresh wave of Operation DreamJob, a long-running campaign linked to North Korea’s Lazarus Group. This latest activity targeted several European defense contractors, including firms deeply involved in drone and UAV deve… Continue reading How Lazarus Group used fake job ads to spy on Europe’s drone and defense sector
OpenFGA is an open-source, high-performance, and flexible authorization engine inspired by Google’s Zanzibar system for relationship-based access control. It helps developers model and enforce fine-grained access control in their applications. At its c… Continue reading OpenFGA: The open-source engine redefining access control
Blind and low-vision users face the same password challenges as everyone else, but the tools meant to make security easier often end up getting in the way. A study from the CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security and DePaul University found tha… Continue reading For blind people, staying safe online means working around the tools designed to help
The lights switch on as you walk in. The air adjusts to your presence. Somewhere in the background, a server notes your arrival. It’s the comfort of a smart building, but that comfort might come with a cost. Smart buildings use digital systems that col… Continue reading Your smart building isn’t so smart without security
What happens when investigators and cybercriminals start using the same technology? AI is now doing both, helping law enforcement trace attacks while also being tested for its ability to conceal them. A new study from the University of Cagliari digs in… Continue reading AI’s split personality: Solving crimes while helping conceal them
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 the limits of what’s possible in data protection. Some vendors consistently … Continue reading 10 data security companies to watch in 2026