U.S. joins European cybercrime convention
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The U.S. government ratifies a multilateral effort dealing with worms, fraud and child exploitation.
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The European Union's top justice official on Friday proposed replicating U.S. border security measures in Europe, with plans to fingerprint and electronically record the entry and exit of all visitors.
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At the RSA Conference in Europe, the two companies, which are frequent adversaries, join a security organization and pledge cooperation.
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LUXEMBOURG -- U.S. and European negotiators reached an interim deal Friday on sharing trans-Atlantic air passenger data for anti-terrorism investigations, concluding arduous talks that highlighted divisions over privacy rights.
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Justice ministers from the European Union (EU) and the United States on Thursday agreed to tighten bilateral cooperation in the fight against terrorism, including making it easier to extradite terrorist suspects.
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(InfoWorld) - The Cyber Security Industry Alliance has given the U.S. government D grades on its cybersecurity efforts in 2006, and renewed its call for the U.S. Congress to pass a comprehensive data protection law in 2007. The CSIA, a trade group representing cybersecurity vendors, gave the U.S. government D grades in three areas: security of sensitive information, security and reliability of critical infrastructure, and federal government information assurance. "Government needs to take these issues very seriously," said Liz Gasster, the CSIA's acting executive director and general counsel. Among the problems in 2006: The U.S. Department ofÂ Veterans Affairs reported a data breach involving the personal information of 26.5 million military veterans and family members. Other agencies also reported multiple lost laptops containing personal information. The CSIA called on agencies to notify citizens of data breaches. After a rash of reported data breaches in early 2005, members of Congress introduced multiple bills requiring companies with data breaches to notify affected consumers. ButÂ a breach-notification law failed to pass, partly because of jurisdictional fights between multiple congressional committees. A comprehensive data security bill should include breach notification, but also a requirement that all organizations holding sensitive data -- including private companies, government agencies, nonprofits, and educational institutions -- use reasonable security standards, Gasster said. The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has taken action against several companies, but a comprehensive law would give the FTC or another agency broad jurisdiction to investigate data breaches, she said. The CSIA is optimistic a comprehensive data breach law will pass in the next year, even though it stalled in the last Congress, Gasster added. Major data breaches continue to happen, and consumers will increase the pressure on Congress to act, she predicted. In mid-January, retailerÂ TJX Companies Inc. reported a massive data breach. "Consumers just are not going to put up with is," Gasster said. Here's how the CSIA generated its government cybersecurity grades: -- Security of sensitive information, grade D: Congress ratified the Council of Europe Convention on Cyber Crime, allowing the U.S. to work with other signatories on cybersecurity investigations, but failed to pass a comprehensive law to protect sensitive personal information. -- Security and resiliency of the critical information infrastructure, grade D: The Department of Homeland Security appointed an assistant secretary for cybersecurity and telecommunications and implemented some cybersecurity program, but it hasnât offered a clear agenda for its top cybersecurity research and development priorities or established a survivable emergency coordination network to handle a large-scale cybersecurity disaster. -- Federal information assurance, grade D: Government continues to offer a "mixed bag of successes and failures," the CSIA said, with progress within the White House Office of Management and Budget's enforcement of cybersecurity directives and implementation of U.S. President George Bush's Homeland Security Presidential Directive 12, requiring agencies to start issuing smart identification cards. But the government needs to do a better job in several areas, including security issues with telecommuting and releasing information on the cost of cyberattacks, the CSIA said. In addition to a comprehensive data protection bill, CSIA called for the U.S. government to strengthen the power of agency chief information officers and called on agencies to increase testing of cybersecurity controls.
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The European Commission unveils plans to make people feel safer buying things online from other countries.
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(InfoWorld) - The creation of aÂ pan-European systemÂ to notify small and medium-size businesses of IT security threats came a step closer Tuesday, as security experts from industry and academia refined plans for the European Information Sharing and Alert System (EISAS) at a conference in Berlin. The conference attendees, from 27 European Union countries, are considering how best to distribute information about new threats across the European Union, said Ulf Bergstrom, press officer for the European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA), the E.U.'s computer security agency. An interim feasibility study published on Tuesday outlines several proposals for the system. One proposal calls for a multilingual portal that collects and publishes security information from member countries. Another idea under consideration would have individual countries collecting security information and publishing it in their own language on Web sites, then feeding that information to other countries. Further specifics on exactly how those scenarios would work are under discussion, Bergstrom said. Bergstrom said the focus is on keeping the information accessible as possible for end users and also in their own native language. Funding issues, including cost of translation, are also being discussed, he said. The delegates' input will be included in a final feasibility study, due for release later this month, Bergstrom said. That study will be forwarded to the European Commission, which will give its opinion before passing the report around September or October to the European Parliament and European Council for consideration, Bergstrom said.ADVERTISEMENTIBM Information On Demand 2006Industrial Industry Leaders, please join us at IBM's premier information management global event, IBM Information On Demand 2006, October 15-20, Anaheim, CA. More IBM business and technical solutions content in one place than ever before! Select from  over 800 sessions. Register today!
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European Commission to propose foreign travelers into and out of Europe, including U.S. citizens, should be fingerprinted.
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Regulators, ISPs, governments and the police have been called on by the European Commission to boost their antispam efforts.
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The European Union head office called for closer coordination Monday among all member governments to hunt down and prosecute those illegally spreading unsolicited e-mails, or spam, across the 25-nation bloc.
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Real gov network strike might be scarier than botnet DDoS When the presidents of the USA and Estonia met on Monday, cyber warfare was still very much on the Estonian agenda.â¦
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The European Union tackles the prospect of data-privacy breaches years ago; what's America bringing to the table now that Congress is taking the matter seriously? Patrick Lamphere analyzes where things are headed.
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The European Union and the United  States should try to reach a deal quickly on the way financial  transactions are monitored to help the fight against terrorism,  the European Commission's security chief said.
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The US today urged India to adhere to the principles of the Council of Europeâs convention on cyber crime for strengthening national laws in the areas of cyber-security.
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The United States began issuing &quot;e-passports&quot; carrying data embedded in electronic chips despite concerns the high-tech documents could be read remotely by hackers.
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Jeff Zucker and Philippe Dauman will address anti-piracy summit next week in Washington D.C.