By Caroline Donnelly, 9 Jan 2013
The European Commission has confirmed that the European Cybercrime Centre (EC3) is to open on Friday 11 January to help protect member states from cyber threats.
At a press conference, announcing EC3’s opening, Commissioner Cecilia Malmström said the centre will allow the EU to fight cybercrime on multiple fronts.
“Cyber criminals are quick in using new technologies to commit their crimes. They are infiltrating computers, bank accounts, financial transactions...they steal bank credentials and identities [and can] also hack smartphones and social network profiles,” she said.
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Very few [cyber crimes] are reported and very few are solved...so that’s why we need to work together in the EU...and the EC3 will be a tool developed to show cyber criminals that we are there to stop them,” Malmström added.
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New report claims Armed Forces ill-prepared for cyber attacks.
By Caroline Donnelly, 9 Jan 2013
The Government’s approach to cyber security has been slammed in a new Defence Committee report, which suggests the UK Armed Forces could be “fatally compromised” by a sustained attack.
The reliance of the Armed Forces on IT could seriously jeopardise their functions should a cyber attack take place, the report warned.
“Given the inevitable inadequacy of the measures available to protect against a constantly changing and evolving [cyber security] threat...it is not enough for the Armed Forces to do their best to prevent an effective attack,” it stated.
“In its response to this report, the Government should set out details of the contingency plans it has in place should such an attack occur.
If it has none, it should say so - and urgently create some.”
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