German spy agency wants to buy and use 0-day bugs
The Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND) – Germany’s Federal Intelligence Service – has asked a parliamentary oversight committee for big money to buy …
Website fined for leaking encrypted card details and decryption key
The UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) is warning organizations that they must make sure their websites are protected against one of the most common forms of …
Rovnix Trojan infection spree targets UK
A new cluster of infections by the Rovnix Trojan is raising concerns of widespread confidential data theft in the UK, warns Bitdefender. The company’s research teams …
Pirate Bay co-founder sentenced for hacking CSC servers
Pirate Bay co-founder Gottfrid Svartholm Warg has been found guilty of hacking into the mainframe of CSC, a company tasked with keeping and handling sensitive information …
Dyre malware targeting Swiss bank customers
The Dyre/Dyreza banking Trojan has lately become very popular with cyber criminals – so much so that the US-CERT has issued an alert warning about the danger. …
Biggest ever cyber security exercise in Europe is underway
More than 200 organisations and 400 cyber-security professionals from 29 European countries are testing their readiness to counter cyber-attacks in a day-long simulation, …
Belgacom shares more details about alleged GCHQ breach
Late last year, documents from Edward Snowden’s NSA trove have revealed that Britain’s GCHQ has allegedly mounted a successful attack against primarily state-owned …
Cyber skills shortage makes UK a soft target for hackers
A survey conducted by MWR InfoSecurity at 44Con 2014 has revealed that 75% of the information security professionals in attendance believed that a lack of cyber security …
Cloud adoption trends in European organizations
In Europe, the number of cloud services in use by the average company increased 23 percent, rising from 588 in Q1 to 724 in Q3. However, not all of these services are ready …
EU Commission and data industry to master Big Data
The European Commission and Europe’s data industry have committed to invest €2.5 billion in a public-private partnership (PPP) that aims to strengthen the data …
A walk through Cyber Security EXPO 2014, part two
Co-located with IP EXPO Europe, a cloud and IT infrastructure event, Cyber Security EXPO is taking place this week in London. Help Net Security is at the event, and …
Privacy breaches in Europe
Half of all the privacy breaches affecting people in Europe are inside jobs according to new research from Central European University. The findings come from a report …