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The executive order will give EU citizens redress for intelligence collection that violates U.S. laws.
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The executive order will give EU citizens redress for intelligence collection that violates U.S. laws.
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Hackers who stole data related to a coronavirus vaccine have leaked it online, a European regulator investigating the breach said Tuesday. An ongoing investigation into the breach found that “some of the unlawfully accessed documents related to COVID-19 medicines and vaccines belonging to third parties have been leaked on the internet,” the European Medicines Agency said in a statement. It was not immediately clear what the unidentified attackers were trying to accomplish in dumping the data online. Cybercriminals often leak stolen data in an attempt to extort victims. Hackers last month stole documents from an EMA computer server related to a COVID-19 vaccine candidate developed by pharmaceutical firms Pfizer and BioNTech. The EMA emphasized that the breach hasn’t affected the efficacy or approval of the vaccine. The incident again spotlights that vaccine data has drawn interest not only from spies, but also also from scammers aiming to exploit a global […]
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Members of the European Parliament appear to have materially affected the future of the internet by mistakenly voting the wrong way. Continue reading Politicians mistakenly vote the wrong way in controversial internet law
Articles 11 and 13 live on, with the dreaded ‘link tax’, ‘meme killer’, ‘censorship machine’ and all. Continue reading Will the EU’s new copyright directive ruin the web?
The European Union’s 28-nation bloc is in agreement concerning how to punish hackers. On Monday, the European Council announced a joint framework, dubbed the “cyber diplomacy toolbox,” to guide how member countries should uniformly respond to malicious cyber activity, which includes steps to cooperatively impose economic sanctions, travel bans, asset freezes and blanket bans against responsible parties. “The key principle here is proportionality,” an EU official told CyberScoop. “It is EU member states who would decide what measure should be used depending on the case they would face … This work aims to promote enhanced shared situational awareness, information sharing and efficient decision-making, and should see the development of a procedure for the attribution of cyber attacks in the context of the cyber diplomacy toolbox.” Use of the “toolbox” is voluntary in nature and any collective response would require unanimous EU member support. In short, the framework represents an ambitious […]
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