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European ID card data is not encrypted
News None of the data stored on identity cards in the European Union is encrypted, according to a study by the European Network and Information Security Agency. Governments in 11 EU countries use electronic identity cards (eID) to authenticate citizens...
[February 6, 2009, 14:32]
Authentication risks all too human
Blog Risks to successful online banking identification and authentication using smartcards involve a mixture of human and technological factors, according to the European Network and Information Security Agency (Enisa).
[November 27, 2009, 16:04]
Pulling together UK ID card privacy threads
Blog Reading a paper by the European Network and Information Security Agency (Enisa) last week on privacy guards in EU ID card schemes raised some interesting questions for me. The thing that jumped out, aside from the lack of encryption on the European...
[February 9, 2009, 16:40]
Beware business cloud dangers, says EU agency
News The European Network and Information Security Agency (Enisa) on Friday published advice and a checklist for organisations thinking of jumping into the cloud, outlining the benefits and risks of using online service provision.
[November 20, 2009, 15:46]
EU begins IPv6 rollout
News The European Network and Information Security Agency, Enisa, announced on Tuesday that it has become the first EU agency to begin offering services over version 6 of the Internet Protocol. The move is part of the European Commission's IPv6 Action...
[October 14, 2009, 16:09]
European cybercrime squad gets green light
News The Brussels-based agency will go by the name of the European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA) and will start operating from 2004, after the debates over its creation were concluded faster than expected.
[November 24, 2003, 15:30]
EC pares down plans for telecoms super-regulator
News The proposals had also included folding network and information security into the new body, a task which will now be left in the hands of the existing European Network and Information Security Agency (Enisa).
[November 11, 2008, 11:38]
Cyberattacks target UK's national infrastructure
News The report from the European Network and Information Security Agency recommends prompt reaction to reported incidents, collaboration between public and private stakeholders, and development of a national strategy for information-sharing and...
[October 30, 2008, 6:30]
MEPs propose Europe-wide telecoms regulator
News The committee stressed that BERT would not deal with issues relating to network and information security, as such tasks are in the remit of the European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA).
[July 9, 2008, 17:36]
Update: America uses Echelon to spy on Britain
News Documents from the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) reveal how the US uses illegal covert techniques to monitor European business communications, including Britain's, to give American companies economic advantages.
[July 3, 2000, 13:10]
Finalists for 2008 CNET tech awards revealed
News Rural Payments Agency (RPA) — Implementing Ultra Thin-Client Technology at the Rural Payments Agency Fiat — Fiat online sales channel innocent — innocent European EDI Expansion Catherine Doran, director of information management, Network Rail
[August 18, 2008, 16:35]
Companies told to disclose data breaches
News The European Network and Information Security Agency (Enisa) wants mandatory reporting on security and data breaches by businesses. Over the past year Enisa has also compiled a study on a European Information Sharing and Alert System to inform the...
[May 28, 2008, 9:02]
Hacktivists battle against Big Brother
News A group of cyber-activists rallied their troops Thursday in an effort to jam a secret spy network headed by the National Security Agency in the US. Email flew across Australia, Europe and the US, urging people to send out electronic messages...
[October 22, 1999, 10:30]
EU lacks common ID privacy specs, says agency
News That lack has hindered the development of interoperability standards that would let each country's authorities work with the electronic identity card (eID) of another, the European Network and Information Security Agency (Enisa) said.
[February 5, 2009, 17:04]
EU calls for 'Mister Cyber Security'
Blog Although the EU has created an agency for network and information security, called ENISA, this instrument remains mainly limited to being a platform to exchange information and is not, in the short term, going to become the European headquarters...
[April 27, 2009, 15:46]
HP and Orange to build secure EU network
News The €210m (£142m) deal is for the creation and management of sTESTA (secured Trans European Services for Telematics between Administrations), a network that will cover not only communications between the European Commission, Europol and the...
[October 6, 2006, 12:30]
US Privacy group sues NSA over spy net
News Americans could learn more about the degree to which the secretive National Security Agency -- the government body charged with cracking codes and protecting critical information -- has been spying on U.S.citizens, if a suit filed on Friday by the...
[December 6, 1999, 9:25]
Privacy group sues NSA over spy net
News The public could learn more about the degree to which the secretive National Security Agency -- the government body charged with cracking codes and protecting critical information -- has been spying on US citizens, if a suit filed on Friday by the...
[December 6, 1999, 10:12]
Echelon: Sigint under the spotlight
News Secret Power, by Nicky Hager, was based on six years of research into the New Zealand Sigint agency GCSB and its Echelon station at Waihopai, codenamed FLINTLOCK. In 1999, the European Parliament published a second report, Interception Capabilities...
[June 30, 2000, 9:35]
EU telecoms gets regulatory shake-up
News In related news, ETMA will absorb the European Network Information Security Agency (ENISA), which was set up in 2003 to tackle cybercrime and malware. The European Regulators' Group (ERG) — which is to become an official Commission agency — has...
[November 14, 2007, 13:24]
