Tag: cybersecurity
Microsoft goes from bad boy to top cop in the age of AI
This article is part of a series, Bots and ballots: How artificial intelligence is reshaping elections worldwide, presented by Luminate.
REDMOND, Wash. — In a shabby corner of Microsoft’s sprawling campus in this suburb of Seattle, Juan Lavista Ferres spun around in his chair and, with a mischievous grin, asked a simple question: “Do you want to play a game?”
Microsoft’s chief data scientist — speaking at a frenetic pace, seemingly powered by unlimited free soft drinks and espressos from the building’s … Read more
UK election watchdog targeted in ‘hostile’ cyberattack – POLITICO
LONDON — The U.K.’s election watchdog, the Electoral Commission, has announced that it was the subject of a complex cyberattack last year in which its systems were accessed by “hostile actors.”
Personal data including names, addresses, email addresses, and other data held on electoral registers were compromised during the attack, the Electoral Commission revealed on Tuesday.
It is not currently aware of who was responsible for the attack.
The incident was first identified in October 2022 following the detection of
Tech firms form coalition to combat cybersecurity risks ahead of EU rules – EURACTIV.com
While the EU is finalising new cybersecurity legislation to force vendors and service providers to provide security updates throughout a product’s lifetime, leading tech companies are getting a head start.
The Network Resilience Coalition was announced on Tuesday (25 July) with 11 founding members, including Cisco, Intel, AT&T, Broadcom, and Fortinet, to increase the security of software and hardware updates and improve the mitigation of cyber risks in networks of tech companies.
The initiative overlaps with some of the provisions
How to navigate Spain’s EU presidency policy agenda like a pro – POLITICO
Spare a thought for Spanish diplomats in Brussels. They’re going to be working flat-out until Christmas.
Sweden has spent the last six months trying to process a huge pile of legislative files, many of which were proposed late by a European Commission distracted by COVID-19 and Russia’s war on Ukraine.
Despite commendable progress, many of these files still need a lot of work before being passed into law. Look at the files we’ve laid out below, then look back at
How McKinsey steers the Munich Security Conference – POLITICO
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MUNICH, Germany — Many of the biggest names in business and politics will cross the red carpet of the stately Bayerischer Hof hotel this weekend for the Bavarian capital’s annual Munich Security Conference. But to identify the real power behind the A-list event, turn to page 169 of the conference’s annual bible, the “Munich Security Report.”
There, in baby blue letters at the bottom half of the page, is
The scramble to sell cyberweapons to dictators – POLITICO
This story is part of the series Leaked: The Altrnativ world of cybersurveillance. Read the rest.
PARIS — As founder of the privacy-focused search engine Qwant, Eric Leandri was fond of citing the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The self-styled European tech champion has mentioned the landmark United Nations document in interviews at least a dozen times since 2017.
“I love human rights,” Leandri said in September 2021, referring to the section in the declaration guaranteeing the right to
A Hacked Newsroom Brings a Spyware Maker to U.S. Court
NSO Group’s business is founded on secrecy; it has refused to publicly identify its clients. In the statement, the company said it sells its software only to “legitimate government agencies” for use in state intelligence and law-enforcement efforts, and maintained that its tools “have proven to save thousands of lives around the world.” It claimed that the firm “cannot know who the targets of its customers are.” Yet it cites its own “rigorous and unique compliance policies” and says it
How Washington chased Huawei out of Europe – POLITICO
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Huawei is giving up on Europe.
The Chinese telecoms giant is pushing out its pedigreed Western lobbyists, retrenching its European operations and putting its ambitions for global leadership on ice.
The reasons for doing this have little to do with the company’s commercial potential — Huawei is still able to offer cutting-edge technology at lower costs than its competitors — and everything to do with politics, according to interviews
When will Europe learn to defend itself? – POLITICO
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PARIS/BERLIN — Thirty years after the horrors of the Balkan wars laid bare Western Europe’s incapacity to deal with conflict on European soil, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is demonstrating how little has changed.
As Yugoslavia started to break apart in 1991, it fell to the Luxembourgish Foreign Minister Jacques Poos to make the ill-fatedly optimistic remark: “This is the hour of Europe, not that of the Americans.”
Since then, there have been years
LIVE NOW – EU Cybersecurity and Resilience – Welche Herausforderungen bei der Schaffung eines gemeinsamen Rahmens? – EURACTIV.com
Präsidentin von der Leyen hatte dies erstmals in ihrer Rede zur Lage der Union im September 2021 angekündigt. Die Europäische Kommission wird voraussichtlich im September 2022 ein Gesetz zur Cyber-Resilienz vorlegen, das darauf abzielt, gemeinsame Cybersicherheitsregeln für digitale Produkte und damit verbundene Dienste wie Software festzulegen die auf dem europäischen Binnenmarkt platziert werden.
Obwohl Internet of Things (IoT)-Produkte eine Vielzahl von Möglichkeiten schaffen, indem sie Menschen, Informationen und Orte verbinden, erhöhen sie auch das Risiko von Cybersicherheitsvorfällen, die ganze Systeme