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ENISA Report Compiles Data on 79 Incidents That Occurred Across 18 E.U. Member States
Aug 26, 2013Although cyberattacks caused just 6 percent of significant outages of public electronic communications networks and services in the E.U. last year, they affected more people than hardware failure, a much more common factor in service ...
Tags: Computer Products, webservice
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Microsoft Would Hack Into The Systems of Countries and Companies
Jun 14, 2013Microsoft routinely passes on details of security flaws in its own software to the National Security Agency (NSA) before it has produced and issued patches to users of its software around the world. The news partly confirms widely held ...
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DDoS Attackers Attempted to Bring Down an Unnamed Financial Services Firm
Jun 3, 2013DDoS attackers attempted to bring down an unnamed financial services firm earlier this week using one of the largest traffic bombardments ever recorded, mitigation firm Prolexic has reported. The 167 Gbps peak attack hit what is being ...
Tags: DDoS Attack, Financial Firm
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The Growth in Cloud Computing Is a Double-Edged Sword
Feb 18, 2013The growth in cloud computing is a double-edged sword, Europe’s top cyber security agency warned on Thursday. The European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA) published a new report on the cloud from the perspective of ...
Tags: cloud computing, cyber security agency, EU
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Insisted More Efforts Are Needed in Cloud Standardisation If EC'sforecasts to Be Met
Dec 24, 2012The industry has welcomed the European Commission's (EC's) ambitious cloud computing strategy but insisted more efforts are needed in areas of cloud standardisation, security and data protection if the EC'sforecasts are to be met. The ...
Tags: European Commission, cloud computing, cloud standardisation
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EC Considers Making It Mandatory for Companies to Report Cyber Attacks
Dec 24, 2012The European Commission (EC) is considering making it mandatory for companies to report cyber attacks to harness the benefits of open dialogue, says vice-president Neelie Kroes. Despite industry opposition, open discussion about cyber ...
Tags: cyber, European Commission, industry opposition, security strategy
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ICSPA Launched Initiative to Pool Cyber Crime Intelligence From Business
Dec 21, 2012The International Cyber Security Protection Alliance (ICSPA) has launched an initiative to pool cyber crime intelligence from business, government, law enforcement, security agencies and IT security professionals. Called Project 2020, the ...
Tags: International Cyber Security Protection Alliance, cyber crime
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Dropbox Confirmed Usernames and Passwords Stolen Were Used to Sign in to Dropbox Accounts
Dec 17, 2012Cloud storage provider Dropbox has confirmed that usernames and passwords stolen from other websites were used to sign in to a small number of Dropbox accounts. "A stolen password was also used to access an employee Dropbox account ...
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Arrogant Firms Cheats Customers on Data Breaches
Dec 17, 2012Customers and end-users are having the wool pulled over their eyes by organisations that fail to report data breaches, according to Simon Bain, CTO of document management firm Simplexo. The EU information security agency Enisa recently ...
Tags: data breaches, arrogant firms, customers
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ENISA Has Advocated to Impose Mandatory Cyber Insurance for Firms
Dec 6, 2012European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA) has advocated to impose mandatory cyber insurance for firms and urged insurance firms to develop related schemes, which will assist them to save reputational damage. The agency in ...
Tags: ENISA, mandatory insurance, CSO
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EC Will Prevent Data Protection Regulation From Curbing Uptake of Cloud Computing
Sep 27, 2012The European Commission(EC)has said it will work with the US and Japan to prevent data protection regulation from curbing the uptake of cloud computing across the region. According to the EC,up to€45bn could be spent on cloud ...
Tags: EC, US, Japan, data protection, cloud computing, EU, ETSI
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European Institutions on Wednesday Beefed up Cybersecurity Efforts
Sep 12, 2012European institutions on Wednesday beefed up cybersecurity efforts by establishing a permanent Computer Emergency Response Team(CERT-EU). The decision was made following a one-year test for the team,which works closely with the internal ...
Tags: Cybersecurity, EU, CERT-EU, ENISA
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Big Data and Intelligence-Driven Security Are to Be The Focus of The RSA Conference Europe
Sep 12, 2012Big data and intelligence-driven security are to be the focus of the RSA Conference Europe 2012 in London next month. Three of the keynote sessions are related to these topics and they are represented in just about every time slot of the ...
Tags: Big data and intelligence-driven security, RSA Conference Europe 2012
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GCHQ Would Launch a Programme Today That Aims to Help Business Leaders
Sep 5, 2012The government's spy agency,GCHQ,is to launch a programme today that aims to help business leaders in their attempts to tackle the growing threat of cyber attacks. The programme,dubbed Cyber Security for Business,will be the first time ...
Tags: spy agency, GCHQ, privateSector CIOs, fight cyber crime
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Enisa Called on Service Providers and End-Users to Protect Online Identity
Aug 1, 2012European Union cybersecurity agency Enisa has called on service providers and end-users to work together to protect online identities. Passwords protect sensitive information, yet in the first half of 2012 alone, data breaches have ...
Tags: online identities, sensitive information, personal data, passwords safe