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The U.S. intelligence community actively monitored for decades the diplomatic and military communications of numerous Latin American nations through encryption machines supplied by a Swiss company that was secretly owned by the CIA and the German intelligence agency, BND, according Read More …
The extent with which 5G networks use software is one of the top security issues for mobile networks as well as devices and current technologies (for example, 3G, 4G) that use or incorporate it, according to an EU report supported Read More …
In an international operation involving law enforcement authorities from the U.S. and several European countries, feds have shut down an online underground marketplace and arrested three suspects in Ukraine. Dubbed xDedic, the illegal online marketplace let cybercriminals buy, sell or Read More …
The European Union will foot the bill for bug bounty programs for 14 open source projects, EU Member of Parliament Julia Reda announced this week. The 14 projects are, in alphabetical order, 7-zip, Apache Kafka, Apache Tomcat, Digital Signature Services Read More …
Representatives from the European Commission, Council and Parliament on Monday (10 December) evening banded together to strengthen the bloc’s Cybersecurity efforts, reaching agreement on the EU’s cybersecurity act. The measures approved will see more resources and greater responsibility afforded to Read More …
EU security commissioner says new regulations may have to be brought in if tech firms fail to tackle issues voluntarily Brussels may threaten social media companies with regulation unless they move urgently to tackle fake news and Cambridge Analytica-style use Read More …
If a new European law restricting what companies can do with people’s online data went into effect tomorrow, almost 1.9 billion Facebook users around the world would be protected by it. But the online social network is making changes that Read More …
The ‘e-evidence’ law would force tech firms to hand over data within as little as six hours The European Commission is to publish proposed rules on Tuesday that would give national judges in the EU the ability to compel tech Read More …
The internet supervisory body says it will continue to press for a moratorium on GDPR enforcement while it works to makes changes The European Commission’s data protection advisory body has said it continues to have “concerns” about plans to bring Read More …
American and British crimefighters have launched another round of pin-the-tail-on-the-Russians – with a warning that Moscow-backed hackers are trying to subvert the world’s network devices. The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and the Read More …