Brexit security implications: Major, and only starting to unfold
The Brexit shock continues to reverberate throughout the global economic and policy worlds. Despite protests against the referendum’s results being cancelled due to concerns …
Stolen LinkedIn data used in malware campaign hitting European users
European LinkedIn users are being targeted with highly personalized malicious emails. It is more than likely that the attackers are misusing the compromised LinkedIn user data …
Europe’s digital competitiveness depends on free data flow
The European Commission today tabled a package of measures to allow consumers and companies to buy and sell products and services online more easily and confidently across the …
US companies need to gear up for new EU data privacy regulations
Thousands of American companies that do business in Europe directly or online with European customers will need to start reckoning with new EU data privacy regulations that …
Five steps to GDPR compliance
For any organisations processing personal data the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is important news. Agreed upon just days ago, after years of negotiations, the …
EU approves new data protection rules
Members of the European Parliament have given their final approval for the new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Parliament’s vote ends more than four years of work …
EU privacy watchdogs not satisfied with the EU-US Privacy Shield
The Article 29 Working Party – an advisory body composed of representatives of the data protection authority of each EU Member State, the European Data Protection …
European Commission presents EU-US Privacy Shield
The European Commission – the executive body of the European Union – issued the legal texts that will put in place the EU-US Privacy Shield, a new framework for …
NSA spied on world leaders, UN, EU officials
A set of highly classified documents recently published by WikiLeaks show how the NSA spied on a number of high ranking officials of the UN, UNHCR, WTO, NATO, the EU and …
Group using DDoS attacks to extort business gets hit by European law enforcement
On 15 and 16 December, law enforcement agencies from Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Germany and the United Kingdom joined forces with Europol in the framework of an …
European data centre services provider Interxion suffers breach
A vulnerability present in the customer relationship management (CRM) system of Interxion, a Netherlands-based provider of carrier and cloud-neutral colocation data centre …
New EU rules on data protection put the citizen back in the driving seat
New EU data protection legislation, informally agreed on Tuesday and backed by Civil Liberties MEPs on Thursday morning, will create a uniform set of rules across the EU fit …
Featured news
Resources
Don't miss
- The risks of autonomous AI in machine-to-machine interactions
- Balancing cloud security with performance and availability
- The XCSSET info-stealing malware is back, targeting macOS users and devs
- A PostgreSQL zero-day was also exploited in US Treasury hack (CVE-2025-1094)
- Two Estonians plead guilty in $577M cryptocurrency Ponzi scheme