System failures cause most large outages of communications services
The European Union Agency for Network and Information Security (ENISA) published a report about large-scale outages in the electronic communication sector. It provides an …
Microsoft refuses to hand over emails stored in Ireland, held in contempt by judge
Microsoft has urged US District Judge Loretta Preska, the judge presiding over the case that sees the company refusing to hand some emails stored in its Dublin facility over …
Expert international cybercrime taskforce tackles online crime
Hosted at the European Cybercrime Centre (EC3) at Europol, the Joint Cybercrime Action Taskforce (J-CAT), which is being piloted for six months, will coordinate international …
50 confirmed, possibly more Norwegian oil companies hacked
50 Norwegian oil and energy companies have been hacked, and 250 more have been warned to check their networks and systems for evidence of a breach, The Local reports. Among …
Only 1 in 100 cloud providers meet proposed EU Data Protection requirements
The EU General Data Protection Regulation is expected to be passed this year and take effect in 2015 but new research from Skyhigh Networks, suggests that only 1 in 100 cloud …
Two Gameover Zeus variants targeting Europe and beyond
Bitdefender has identified two Gameover Zeus variants in the wild: one of them generates 1,000 domains per day and the other generates 10,000 per day. The UK is currently the …
Competition to crack a virtual terrorist HDD, break into CCTV systems
Sophos is calling amateur security talent to turn sleuth and to investigate confiscated crime scene computer systems belonging to a cyber terrorist group as part of the latest …
Google and EU debate on implementation of “right to be forgotten”
It is, by now, widely known that European users can ask Google to “forget” sites with content these users find damaging to their reputation, but the European Court …
European Central Bank blackmailed in wake of data breach
The European Central Bank (ECB) – the central bank for the euro – has suffered a data breach, and has only discovered it after receiving a blackmail letter from …
UK application security programs lagging behind US
UK enterprises are lagging behind US enterprises when it comes to application security programs. A new IDG study revealed that on average UK companies are spending …
40% of IT security teams keep executives in the dark
A new survey uncovered the communication challenges between IT security professionals and executives, a desire to overhaul current security systems and limited security …
UK data watchdog suffered data security breach
A data breach can really happen to anyone – just ask the UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO). Buried in the recently made public 2013-2014 Annual …
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