Tag: EU

October 13, 2023

When I was in Bilbao recently for the Open Source Summit Europe event, the main topic of conversation was the European Union’s (EU) Cyber Resilience Act (CRA). Everyone – and I mean everyone – mentioned it. Why? Because pretty much […]

January 11, 2023

TikTok, whose parent company ByteDance is Chinese, has come under fierce Western scrutiny in recent months over concerns about how much access Beijing has to user data. TiKTok chief executive Shou Zi Chew held official talks for the first time […]

May 25, 2022

There’s been a lot of turbulence in the data privacy regulation space in the past couple of years. Post Brexit, there was a risk for the UK to be digitally isolated from the EU. For the moment, the General Data […]

May 13, 2022

A report from the European Union (EU) says Open RAN technology has the potential to enhance the continent’s cybersecurity provisions but warns that certain conditions must be met if this promise is to be fulfilled. The Radio Access Network (RAN) […]

March 25, 2022

The U.S. and the European Union (EU) have a preliminary agreement over the storing of European data on U.S. soil. It was announced by President Biden and EU President Ursula von der Leyen, speaking on Friday March 25. If successful, […]

February 21, 2022

The joint guidance is meant for public and private organizations in the EU, specifically CISOs and other decision makers. The document is also recommended for entities that support organizational risk management. A total of 14 recommendations are outlined, and organizations […]

January 25, 2022

The European Union is, once again, calling on bug hunters to delve into specific open source software and report bugs. This time around, the list of software that should be probed for weaknesses includes: LibreOffice – a free office suite […]

January 5, 2021

The GDPR, which requires organizations to protect the personal data and privacy of EU citizens, came into force in May 2018, and, based on publicly available information, it since resulted in fines totaling more than €250 million (roughly $300 million). […]

November 4, 2020

The European Commission (EC) will issue updated legal contacts that will outline how companies and businesses can share data with the US – without breaching European Union (EU) privacy laws – within weeks. The move is designed to give legal […]

October 26, 2020

News of an unusual data breach at a psychotherapy center in Finland broke over the weekend, after affected patients began receiving emails telling them to pay up or risk their personal and health data being publicly released. Therapist session notes […]

July 31, 2020

The Council of the European Union announced sanctions imposed on a Russia-linked military espionage unit, as well as companies operating for Chinese and North Korean threat actors that launched cyber-attacks against the EU and its member states. This is the […]

June 22, 2020

France’s top court has upheld a €50 million ($56 million) fine against Google for violating the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation with its advertising personalization model that lacked adequate user consent measures, according to CNIL, France’s regulatory authority. The fine […]

June 1, 2020

The EU’s General Data Protection Regulation was meant to finally bring in line organizations that didn’t treat Europeans’ personal data with respect. But two years after the regulation went into full effect, why have both the U.K. and Ireland each […]

January 31, 2020

EU Member States have identified risks and vulnerabilities at national level and published a joint EU risk assessment. Through the toolbox, the Member States are committing to move forward in a joint manner based on an objective assessment of identified […]

October 11, 2019

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 one such risk. Huawei started developing 5G infrastructure […]

May 16, 2019

One year later, the EU mandate’s biggest impact has been to focus more attention on data protection and privacy, security analysts say. In the year since it went into effect, the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) has heightened […]

March 19, 2019

Europol announced the adoption of a new protocol for law enforcement bodies in the EU and abroad to respond to major cyber cross-border cyberattacks. The protocol dubbed EU Law Enforcement Emergency Response Protocol aims at handling major attacks such as […]

January 22, 2019

The French data protection watchdog CNIL announced a fine of 50 million euros ($57 million) for US search giant Google under GDPR. “On 21 January 2019, the CNIL’s restricted committee imposed a financial penalty of 50 Million euros against the […]

December 20, 2018

For the past three years, hackers have been intercepting sensitive diplomatic cables sent between EU member states after stealing passwords for accessing the EU network via a phishing attack against diplomats in Cyprus, The New York Times reported late Tuesday. […]

December 20, 2018

Privacy watchdogs in Europe say they are continuing to see an increase in data breach reports as well as privacy complaints. That should be no surprise, because the EU on May 25 began enforcing its General Data Protection Regulation. Among […]