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8 Takeaways: European Data Protection Summit
2019-06-06 13:18

As GDPR Celebrates Its First Birthday, Privacy Experts Meet in London to ReviewOne year after the EU's General Data Protection Regulation went into full effect, data protection experts gathered at...

Analysis Shows Poor GDPR Compliance in European Websites
2019-05-30 15:29

Marking the one-year anniversary of GDPR coming into force (May 25, 2018), a web-scanning service has analyzed the visible GDPR compliance of the 100 most popular websites in each of the 28...

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2019-05-16 14:20

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European, US Investigators Make Major Darknet Bust
2019-05-06 08:25

European and American investigators have broken up one of the world’s largest online criminal marketplaces for drugs, hacking tools and financial-theft wares in raids in the United States, Germany...

Another European manufacturer crippled by ransomware
2019-04-25 11:56

Aebi Schmidt, a Switzerland-based manufacturer and provider of municipal and agriculture machinery, has apparently been hit by ransomware. What happened? “Due to an IT system failure, the Aebi...

European Commission: No Evidence of Issues With Kaspersky Products
2019-04-17 07:20

The European Commission has no evidence of issues associated with using Kaspersky Lab’s products, a document published this week reveals. read more

Russian Hackers Target European Governments Ahead of Elections: FireEye
2019-03-22 17:08

Hackers believed to be sponsored by the Russian government are targeting European governments for cyber-espionage purposes ahead of the upcoming European elections, FireEye reports.  read more

European Government Websites Are Delivering Tracking Cookies to Visitors
2019-03-20 16:20

Governments within the European Union appear to be flouting their own GDPR laws. Many official government websites are harboring and delivering tracking cookies from the ad tech industry even...

Google Will Prompt European Android Users to Select Preferred Default Browser
2019-03-20 09:03

Google announced some major changes for its Android mobile operating system in October after the European Commission hit the company with a record $5 billion antitrust fine for pre-installing its...

European Telecommunications Standards Institute Publishes New IoT Security Standard
2019-02-25 16:27

On February 19, the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) published the ETSI TS 103 645 V1.1.1 -- or more simply, a high-level outcome-focused standard (PDF) for cybersecurity in...