NATO’s team in Albania to help on Iran-alleged cyberattack

NATO sent a senior-level delegation to Albania on Wednesday to help the tiny Western Balkan country cope with the consequences of recent cyberattack that the government blamed on Iran. NATO said James Appathurai, the alliance’s deputy assistant secretary general, led Read More …

NATO investigates hacker sale of missile firm data

Nato is assessing the impact of a data breach of classified military documents being sold by a hacker group online. The data includes blueprints of weapons being used by Nato allies in the Ukraine war. Criminal hackers are selling the Read More …

Russian cyber attack on Lithuania unlikely to provoke military response

A NATO member is under attack. Normally the meaning of this would be frighteningly clear, but this is an attack with a difference: not a physical attack, but a cyber attack; and working out what a cyber attack means is Read More …

NATO Cooperative Cyber Defense Centre of Excellence (CCDCOE) held a flag-raising ceremony for Canada, the Republic of Korea and Luxembourg

NATO Cooperative Cyber Defense Centre of Excellence (CCDCOE) raised the flags of Canada, the Republic of Korea and Luxembourg to welcome the most recent members of CCDCOE’s multinational family. „It is a great honour to have Canada, Republic of Korea Read More …

NATO enters final phase of project to refresh cyber security technology

The NCI Agency announced earlier this year that experts had successfully collaborated with industry partners to upgrade the central management of two cyber security systems: the Network Intrusion Protection/Detection System (NIPS) and Full Packet Capture (FPC) system. This contract award Read More …

NATO sharpens technological edge with innovation initiatives

NATO Allies are launching a ground-breaking initiative to sharpen the Alliance’s technological edge. On Thursday (7 April 2022), Allied foreign ministers approved the Charter of the Defence Innovation Accelerator for the North Atlantic – or DIANA. “Working with the private Read More …

Tracking cyber activity in Eastern Europe

In early March, Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) published an update on the cyber activity it was tracking with regard to the war in Ukraine. Since our last update, TAG has observed a continuously growing number of threat actors using Read More …

NATO Communications and Information Agency modernizes NATO’s core communications infrastructure

The NATO Communications and Information Agency (NCI Agency) provides a robust infrastructure for NATO’s networks, providing interconnectivity across multiple Alliance locations and enabling NATO to perform consultation, deterrence and collective defence. “This is the backbone network infrastructure, which all services Read More …

NATO Cyber Security Centre experiments with secure network capable of withstanding attack by quantum computers

Scientists have predicted that quantum computers will one day be able to break some commonly used encryption methods. That’s why NATO and Allies are already testing post-quantum solutions. The NATO Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has successfully tested secure communication flows Read More …