Tag: EU

The European Commission's Cyber Resilience Act, the most comprehensive law regulating product cyber security in Europe, will soon come into force. A number of changes have recently been made that specify the scope of the law. The formal adoption is considered safe in expert circles. “From our security analysis point of view, the specification of the Cyber Resilience Act is very welcome, especially the even further extended level of security for end users. The device classes have been newly recorded: Article 6 introduced two additional cybersecurity risk classes for critical hardware and software products whose core functions are...

Cyber Resilience Act

18 December 2023

In the trilogue negotiations on the Cyber Resilience Act, the EU Commission, European Parliament and the Council of the European Union reached an agreement. Susanne Dehmel, member of the Bitkom management, explains: “The Cyber Resilience Act is unique in the world and a milestone on the way to strengthening cybersecurity in Europe. With uniform standards for products with digital elements, such as security by design, it can create significantly more security for consumers. Companies benefit, among other things, from standardizing reporting deadlines for vulnerabilities. New act - new obligations However, it comes...

DE is most affected by ransomware compared to the EU

3 November 2023

| Stories, TrendMicro

More and more small and medium-sized companies (SMEs) are increasingly the focus of cyber extortionists. The APT groups Lockbit, BlackCat and Clop (or Cl0p) are particularly active with the number of their attacks. Compared to the EU, Germany is particularly badly attacked. Trend Micro has released new analysis showing that a majority of recent ransomware attacks can be traced back to three major threat actors: Lockbit, BlackCat and Clop. The report also indicates that the number of new victims has increased by 2022 percent since the second half of 47. APT groups Lockbit, BlackCat…

EU Parliament: New AI law should regulate their use

July 19, 2023

The EU's new AI law is intended to ensure the controlled use of the all-purpose tool artificial intelligence - AI. Of course, there are great uses for the technology, but there have been numerous examples of unethical uses — including the misuse of deepfake technology. There have been other dangerous AI-related incidents related to privacy, fraud and information manipulation. These cases have shown that AI is not a technology that can be retrospectively regulated by law. The approval of this draft by the EU Parliament creates a solid basis for the future…

Regulation of AI software

26 May 2023

Efforts are being made worldwide to define a legal framework for artificial intelligence. There were hearings before the US Congress, where ChatGPT boss Sam Altman, among others, spoke out in favor of regulation. MEPs are calling for several changes to the "AI Act" to regulate AI more strictly. You cannot stop the development of AI and the innovation that comes with it. Or as the saying goes: Once the genie is out of the bottle... AI models are new technologies like many others have come before. And yet they are special in many ways...

EU Cyber Solidarity Law: Building a protective shield

26 May 2023

In April, the European Commission put forward a proposal for the EU Cyber Solidarity Law, a multi-billion dollar plan to boost cybersecurity capabilities in EU member states. A comment from Peter Sandkuijl, VP Sales Engineering EMEA at Check Point Software Technologies. The plan aims to help build a large-scale, comprehensive European cyber defense program. The law states that the EU Cyber Solidarity Act will strengthen solidarity at Union level to better detect serious cybersecurity incidents and large-scale cybersecurity incidents. He will also help improve preparedness and response measures by building a European Cyber Defense Shield and a…

Chinese, Russian APT groups attack Europe

13 May 2023

The European Union is increasingly targeted by Chinese and Russian APT groups. This is shown by the current ESET APT report, which reports on the latest developments in hacker groups such as Lazarus, Mustang Panda or Ke3chang. ESET security experts are seeing increasing attacks by APT (Advanced Persistent Threat) groups with ties to China, North Korea and Russia on EU countries and organizations in these countries. With fake job offers from the aviation company Boeing, the Lazarus Group tried to steal access data from employees of a Polish armaments company. Ke3chang and Mustang Panda, players with ties to China, have also attacked European companies. As part of…

Cisco Webex complies with data protection through full EU data residency

2 November 2022

Cisco has announced that Webex now has full data residency in the EU. This satisfies the concerns and even complaints of German data protection officers. Content generated by European customers now resides in data centers in the EU. Existing data will be transferred. Cisco is consistently pursuing the path of data protection and data security. Wendy Mars, President of Cisco EMEA, announced in a blog that from now on all data from new Webex customers will be processed and stored entirely in data centers in the EU. This means that, for example, invoice data and analysis data now remain in the…

Spy software Pegasus: EU wants ban

4 April 2022