Tag: cyber-attacks

While viewed as a “step in the right direction”, the EU’s new cybersecurity strategy is criticised by experts for its lack of clarity on ensuring the safety of cloud computing.

New mobile flying quads are amongst innovations that will be at the disposal of the new European Cybercrime Centre (EC3), according to chief Troels Ørting.

A German power utility specialising in renewable energy was hit by a serious cyber-attack two weeks ago that lasted five days, knocking its internet communications systems offline, in the first confirmed digital assault against a European grid operator.

Hundreds of cybersecurity experts from major banks, telecoms companies, internet service providers and governments across Europe are joining a joint cyberattack exercise taking place today (4 October), the European Commission announced.

Moves to firm up the Commission's cyber protection will come in the next weeks in response to a “war of attrition” in cyber space rather than any specific attack, a Commission spokesman has told EurActiv.

In the wake of last week's cyber-fraud on the world's carbon market, a senior EU official has told EurActiv that of all threats to Europe's energy supply, cyber-attacks are "probably the most to be feared".