Asokan is a U.K.-based senior correspondent for Information Security Media Group's global news desk. She previously worked with IDG and other publications, reporting on developments in technology, minority rights and education.
The European Commission is set to finalize its digital wallet initiative after the proposal achieved political consensus on the core elements concerning its implementation. The latest digital monetary initiative comes as Europe rolls out plans for a digital euro.
The Irish government has proposed a number of measures to strengthen the country's top cyber agency's abilities to tackle ransomware and other cyberthreats. The National Security Strategy lays out 18 new action plans intended to augment the National Cyber Security Center's capabilities.
The European cyber agency continues to remain underfunded despite the surge in ransomware and other cyberthreats, the organization's chief said in a recent hearing. The ENISA chief called on the European Commission to hold regulatory consultations to address the existing policy gaps.
European police on Tuesday confirmed the arrests of more than 6,000 people who were formerly active in defunct encrypted messaging service EncroChat. Authorities charged more than 200 top-level operators and seized drugs, guns and more than 900 million euros.
Irish Parliament has proposed changes to a new bill that would make it a criminal offense to disclose privacy reprimands issued by the Data Protection Commission. Civil rights groups are accusing the government of shielding the country's privacy regulator from criticism.
Millions of GitHub repositories are vulnerable to a repository renaming flaw that could enable supply chain attacks, a new report by security firm Aqua said. It found 36,983 GitHub repositories vulnerable to repo jacking attacks, including Google and Lyft.
Europe's continued efforts to control its data will not stifle competition and are not an act of "protectionism," a top European Union official said amid growing criticism of the EU's legislative proposal to introduce stringent data-sharing requirements for businesses.
The top French privacy regulator has imposed a fine of 40 million euros against a Parisian advertising technology company for its use of website tracking cookies and failure to process users' personal data in compliance with privacy laws under the General Data Protection Regulation.
British law firms are at increased risk of being hacked due to a growing number of cybercrime-as-a-service groups, the country's top cybersecurity agency warned in a new advisory. Lawyer are under attack from cybercriminals, nation-state groups and ransomware gangs.
Ukrainian cyber police have disrupted a fake investment scam that involved stealing cryptocurrency from the online wallets of several victims in Canada. The scammers operated out of two call centers in the Khmelnytskyi region of Ukraine, mainly targeting Ukrainian citizens living in Canada.
A top European cybercrime official extolled public-private cooperation during a Tuesday conference, saying collaboration is helping in the ongoing fight against ransomware. Consulting with cybersecurity specialists over policy is also a must, said an OECD official.
A British cyber law that criminalizes hacking is outdated, hindering law enforcement action against cyber crooks, U.K. lawmakers heard during a parliamentary hearing on cybercrime. Graeme Biggar, the director general of the U.K's National Crime Agency, said it should be an offense to steal data.
Malware developers are adopting an easy-to-use obfuscation tool that slips malware past antivirus, warn security researchers. BatCloak requires minimal programming skills to use. Among its recent successes is a recent remote access Trojan dubbed SeroXen.
European lawmakers on Thursday denounced the commercial spyware industry and chastised half a dozen member nations for deploying spyware against citizens or selling it abroad. "Spyware is part of the toolkit of authoritarians who undermine democracies," said Dutch MP Sophie in 't Veld.
European lawmakers on Wednesday voted overwhelmingly in favor of restrictions for the artificial intelligence industry, approving a regulatory package obliging generative AI model makers to mitigate societal risks and banning a slew of applications, such as biometric recognition in public places.
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