A walk through Cyber Security EXPO 2014
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 …
Discover Cyber Security EXPO
In this interview, Mark Steel, CEO at IP EXPO Europe, talks about Cyber Security EXPO, taking place October 8-9 in London. This is the very first Cyber Security EXPO. How …
Attitudes and understanding of data protection across Europe
New research, conducted by Vanson Bourne, reveals that 84 per cent of respondents agree Europe needs stronger data protection laws, but 77 per cent are not confident their …
The Crime-as-a-Service business model
A service-based criminal industry is developing, in which specialists in the virtual underground economy develop products and services for use by other criminals. This …
European banks and Europol join forces to fight cybercrime
The European Banking Federation (EBF) and Europol’s European Cybercrime Centre (EC3) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) which paves the way for intensifying …
System failures cause most large outages of communications services
The European Union Agency for Network and Information Security (ENISA) published a report about large-scale outages in the electronic communication sector. It provides an …
Microsoft refuses to hand over emails stored in Ireland, held in contempt by judge
Microsoft has urged US District Judge Loretta Preska, the judge presiding over the case that sees the company refusing to hand some emails stored in its Dublin facility over …
Expert international cybercrime taskforce tackles online crime
Hosted at the European Cybercrime Centre (EC3) at Europol, the Joint Cybercrime Action Taskforce (J-CAT), which is being piloted for six months, will coordinate international …
50 confirmed, possibly more Norwegian oil companies hacked
50 Norwegian oil and energy companies have been hacked, and 250 more have been warned to check their networks and systems for evidence of a breach, The Local reports. Among …
Only 1 in 100 cloud providers meet proposed EU Data Protection requirements
The EU General Data Protection Regulation is expected to be passed this year and take effect in 2015 but new research from Skyhigh Networks, suggests that only 1 in 100 cloud …
Two Gameover Zeus variants targeting Europe and beyond
Bitdefender has identified two Gameover Zeus variants in the wild: one of them generates 1,000 domains per day and the other generates 10,000 per day. The UK is currently the …
Competition to crack a virtual terrorist HDD, break into CCTV systems
Sophos is calling amateur security talent to turn sleuth and to investigate confiscated crime scene computer systems belonging to a cyber terrorist group as part of the latest …