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73,000 Finnish online accounts compromised

The login credentials and email addresses of some 73,000 Finns have been stolen and posted online by unknown attackers who breached the database used by a network of …

ISPs can’t be forced to filter file-sharing traffic, says EU court

European ISPs will not be required to filter electronic communications which use file-sharing software in order to prevent file sharing which infringes copyright, the European …

Cybercrime statistics in Ireland

The Irish Reporting and Information Security Service (IRISSCERT) released statistics on cybercrime incidents it has dealt with so far in 2011. The statistics are based on all …

Facebook trims response to data requests

After the possibility to request data from Facebook under European data privacy laws became common knowledge, Europeans began inundating the social networks with requests. …

Cyber crooks should get tougher sentences, says PCeU chief

Cyber fraudsters and robbers often receive considerably lighter sentences that their real-world counterparts, says Detective Superintendent Charlie McMurdie, the head of …

First joint EU-US cyber security exercise

The first joint cyber security exercise between the European Union and United States is being held today in Brussels, with the support of the EU’s Network and …

Engineer jailed for turning PIN Entry Devices into skimmers

A German electronics engineer has been sentenced to three years in a UK prison for having modified a number of PIN Entry Devices to record the information used to clone credit …

4 million identity fraud victims in the UK

Identity fraud continues to rise with 4 million victims in UK alone – yet consumers continue to be complacent with their identities. According to research commissioned …

Large EU IT systems to be managed by single agency

The first step towards a pan-European agency that will manage the large IT systems common to all member states has been taken, reports Computerworld. The EU’s General …

IRISSCERT cyber crime conference announces speakers

IRISS will hold its second annual conference on Wednesday the 23rd of November 2011 in Dublin. This is an all day conference which focuses on providing attendees with an …

EU data breach notification law under advisement

The recent onslaught of cyber attacks against a variety of companies big and small and the consequent compromises of user information gathered by them has led the European …

European study unveils IT security strategies

Fortinet unveiled the findings of a survey into the IT security strategies which queried enterprise IT decision makers in France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Benelux and the UK …

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