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Tough questions about botnets

ENISA published a comprehensive study on the botnet threat and how to address it. The report looks at the reliability of botnet size estimates and makes recommendations for …

New types of cookies raise online privacy concerns

The advertising industry has led the drive for new, persistent and powerful cookies, with privacy-invasive features for marketing practices and profiling. The EU cyber …

400,000 e-mail addresses stolen in Irish job website breach

Names and e-mail addresses of some 400,000 job seekers have been harvested by hackers who have breached the RecruitIreland.com site and its systems. The site has been taken …

Zeus Trojan targets UK government

During his speech at the Munich Security Conference on Friday, UK’s foreign secretary William Hague revealed that the UK government has been targeted with a e-mail …

Worrying increase in surveillance across Europe

A landmark EU-wide study of national privacy safeguards shows a decline in privacy protection across Europe and a steep increase in state surveillance over the lives of …

Decisive factors for designing resilient networks

The resilience of data networks is vital for the economy and society. Yet, abnormal but legitimate traffic, malicious attacks, accidents or human mistakes, and technical …

Data breach notifications in Europe

Recent high profile incidents of personal data loss in Europe have prompted wide discussion about the level of security applied to personal information shared, processed, …

Data protection compliance in the EU administration

The European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) adopted a policy paper that sets out the framework within which he monitors, measures and ensures data protection compliance in …

EU investigates Google antitrust violations

The European Commission has decided to open an antitrust investigation into allegations that Google has abused a dominant position in online search, in violation of European …

Interim findings of first EU cyber exercise

The interim findings and recommendations of EU Member States participants of the 1st Pan-European Cyber Security Exercise indicate that Cyber Europe 2010 was a useful cyber …

First EU cyber security exercise successfully concluded

The first ever, pan-European cyber security exercise “Cyber Europe 2010” ended successfully yesterday. More than 150 experts from 70 public bodies around Europe …

Experts run large cyber attack simulation exercise

Europe’s cyber security experts are testing their responses today in the first ever pan-European cyber-attack simulation exercise. In “Cyber Europe 2010“, …

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