European Union
NSO Group Spied on European Union—on French Orders?
Richi Jennings | | Apple, Didier Reynders, eu, European Union, FORCEDENTRY, france, Imagine thinking a commissioner’s phone contents would give any insight into what’s happening at the commission, iPhone, NSO, NSO Group, Pegasus, Privacy, QuaDream, SB Blogwatch
An espionage attempt was made by an NSO Group customer to hack the phones of senior EU officials ...
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Facebook’s Threat to Exit Europe—EU Waves Buh-Bye
Richi Jennings | | European Union, facebook, GDPR, Meta, Privacy, Privacy Shield, safe harbor, SB Blogwatch, Zuckerberg's empty threats
Meta, Facebook’s parent, warned investors that it might need to pull out of Europe. Here’s why … ...
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EU, U.S. Partner on Malware, Cybersecurity Defense
Last week, the world’s major democratic governments took steps to coordinate cybersecurity defenses, with the European Union and the United States launching an initiative to combat ransomware, which has become an increasingly ...
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COVID-19 Exacerbated Existing Cybercrime Patterns, Europol Says
Filip Truta | | coronavirus, covid, COVID-19, cybercrime, European Union, Europol, Industry News, iocta, Organized Crime, threat report
Europol has published its seventh Internet Organized Crime Threat Assessment (IOCTA), the agency’s annual cybercrime report containing updates on the latest trends and effects of cybercrime in the European Union and beyond ...
EU Takes Aim at China and Huawei in 5G Cybersecurity Report
A European Union report assessing risks to its planned 5G cybersecurity networks says that foreign states and state-backed actors represent the biggest threat, and it all but named Chinese firm Huawei as ...
Data Erasure & The Right to be Forgotten
Raajveer Loyal | | Data Erasure, data protection, data-centric, Database Security, European Union, GDPR, Privacy, Right to be Forgotten
The ‘right to be forgotten’ is a legal concept that is fast evolving in the European Union (EU) that could eventually find its way to the US federal law according to data ...
Report: Russia is using social media to influence European Parliamentary elections
Filip Truta | | Bots, Elections, eu, EU elections, European Union, Industry News, kremlin, nation-state, parliamentary elections, political discord, Politics, Russia, state actor
A new report is out claiming that Russian bad actors are increasingly pouring misinformation through social media channels with a clear goal to influence the upcoming European Parliamentary elections. Bad actors are ...
Does Microsoft Violate GDPR? European Regulator Asks Tough Questions
EU privacy regulator investigates Microsoft. Audits contracts with EU bodies for compliance. This comes after serious allegations that Microsoft Office's telemetry features fell foul of GDPR ...
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ENISA issues recommendations to protect EU Parliament elections against cyber-threats
Filip Truta | | Elections, eu, european election, European Union, Industry News, parliamentary elections
With the European Union Parliament elections just around the corner, the EU Agency for Network and Information Security (ENISA) has released a detailed paper discussing the evolving threat of cyber-attacks on election ...
EU: Let the (Cyberwar) Games Begin
Christopher Burgess | | Cyber-attack, Cyberwar, eu, EU2017ee, eucybrid, eucybrid2017, European Union
“Let the games begin!” was heard at 2017 Council of the European Union meeting held in Tallinn, Estonia in early September. Various defense ministers and their national security teams participated in the ...