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]
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 Named
News Fiat — Fiat online sales channel innocent — innocent European EDI Expansion Rural Payments Agency (RPA) — Implementing Ultra Thin-Client Technology at the Rural Payments Agency 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 The thought that the US, European and Australian governments could have the same access to information about private citizens disturbed him, he said. Echelon has come under fire from European parliament members, privacy advocates, and the paranoid.
[October 22, 1999, 10:30]
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 The questions arose from reports to the European Union last year that the United Kingdom and Australia, among other countries, had cooperated with the United States to collect electronic communications across national borders.
[December 6, 1999, 9:25]
Privacy Group Sues NSA Over Spy Net
News The questions arose from reports to the European Union last year that the United Kingdom and Australia, among other countries, had co-operated with the United States to collect electronic communications across national borders.
[December 6, 1999, 10:12]
Echelon: Sigint Under The Spotlight
News The European Parliament has continued to debate the issue. European Members of Parliament have argued that new cross-border tapping systems to deal with serious crime or terrorism mean that totally secret systems like Echelon are anachronistic.
[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]
Social Networking And Portability
Blog One of the more interesting speakers at Infosec's "Locking Down Social Networking Vulnerabilities" event today - itself locked down by a power cut just as Facebook's Max Kelly was cutting to the nub of his gist - was Giles Hogben of the European...
[April 22, 2008, 16:39]
America Uses Echelon To Spy On Britain, Say Reports
News New CIA documents reveal how the United States' intelligence services use covert techniques to monitor European business communications, including Britain's, to give American companies economic advantages.
[July 3, 2000, 10:13]
Echelon: The French Fight Back
News Really there is no punishment," says Paul Lannoye president of the Green Group in the European Parliament/European Free Alliance, and an active campaigner against Echelon. If his bid is successful, the case may also prompt reaction from the...
[June 29, 2000, 11:13]
European Commission Plays Down Fears Over US Snooping
News Details of Perkins' remarks were made available to the European Parliament's Temporary Echelon Committee, which is charged with investigating allegations that the US uses a satellite network -- code named Echelon -- to spy on international...
[March 5, 2001, 13:11]
Cyberterror Threats Dismissed
News Central to any criticism of these plans is the fact that evidence of a genuine cyber-terror threat is yet to be presented by any respected body, according to Simon Perry, VP security strategy at CA who was recently invited to advise ENISA (the...
[February 10, 2005, 8:45]
Symantec: Security Reporting Chain Is Broken
News Speaking at the 2007 Parliament and the Internet Conference in Westminster on Thursday, Symantec's European director of security practice, William Beer, said that, while many companies have invested in security products, they are often not...
[October 22, 2007, 15:08]
SirCam Worm Settles In For The Long Haul
News If the infected PC uses the European date format (day/month/year), for example, there is a 1-in-20 chance that the worm will delete all files and folders on the hard drive on 16 October. Baker even heard from someone at NASA that the agency had...
[August 3, 2001, 9:38]
Frenchelon - France Has Nothing To Envy In Echelon
News This is what a DST (French equivalent of MI6) officer told journalists in 1998 following the first denunciation of Echelon by the European Parliament. The 120 Echelon satellites revealed by Duncan Campbell in his report to the European Parliament...
[June 30, 2000, 9:30]
End To Email Viruses May Be Nigh
News It's not going to do anything at all unless people install it," said Jack Clark, European product manager with antivirus company Network Associates. The Defence Evaluation and Research Agency (Dera) -- an MoD agency -- on Tuesday unveiled software...
[April 24, 2001, 11:37]
