Engineer jailed for turning PIN Entry Devices into skimmers
A German electronics engineer has been sentenced to three years in a UK prison for having modified a number of PIN Entry Devices to record the information used to clone credit …
4 million identity fraud victims in the UK
Identity fraud continues to rise with 4 million victims in UK alone – yet consumers continue to be complacent with their identities. According to research commissioned …
Large EU IT systems to be managed by single agency
The first step towards a pan-European agency that will manage the large IT systems common to all member states has been taken, reports Computerworld. The EU’s General …
IRISSCERT cyber crime conference announces speakers
IRISS will hold its second annual conference on Wednesday the 23rd of November 2011 in Dublin. This is an all day conference which focuses on providing attendees with an …
EU data breach notification law under advisement
The recent onslaught of cyber attacks against a variety of companies big and small and the consequent compromises of user information gathered by them has led the European …
European study unveils IT security strategies
Fortinet unveiled the findings of a survey into the IT security strategies which queried enterprise IT decision makers in France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Benelux and the UK …
A guideline for critical information infrastructure governance
ENISA launched a new publication on National Risk Management (NRM) preparedness. The report sets out the essential elements as a guideline for the governance of NRM in …
Compliance is more than just cost
Compliance investments, which are basically treated only as a spending to align with compulsory regulations, when extended to all processes including privileged and super …
Internet interconnection ecosystem resilience
The Internet has so far been extremely resilient. But will this last? A systemic failure of the Internet would cause significant problems for several sectors like energy, …
Children on social networks unaware of privacy risks
77% of 13-16 year olds and 38% of 9-12 year olds in the EU have a profile on a social networking site, according to a pan-European survey carried out for the European …
SANS to teach VoIP security in Europe
The SANS Institute will be teaching the first European session of its new Security 540: VoIP Security course at the upcoming SANS Secure Europe event in Amsterdam this May. …
Final report: Pan-European cyber security exercise
The EU’s cyber security agency, ENISA, has issued its final report on the first Pan-European cyber security exercise for public bodies, Cyber Europe 2010. The report …
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