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Broad media coverage for SDA cyber-report
The SDA’s recently launched groundbreaking cyber-report “Cyber-security: The vexed question of global rules” received broad international coverage by more than 40 journals and newspapers. Among the most prominent media covering the report were the Financial Times, BBC, and Bloomberg Businessweek. The various media focused on different elements of the report, ranging from the countries cyber-preparedness ranking to the possibility of a cyber arms race.
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In the evening debate on "Improving global cyber-governance", the SDA launched its flagship report "Cyber-security: The vexed question of global rules", based on over 80 interviews with senior specialists and policy makers and a survey of 250 experts from around the world. Among the panel of experts were, Jeff Moss, Vice President and Chief Security Officer of ICANN, Demosthenes Ikonomou, Head of Secure Services & Project Support Activities for the European Network Security Agency and Jamie Shea, Deputy Assistant Secretary General for Emerging Security Challenges of NATO.
Kroes and Iklódy discuss public-private cyber-cooperation
As part of its cyber-initiative, the SDA on Monday welcomed European Commission Vice President Neelie Kroes, NATO Assistant Secretary General Amb. Gábor Iklódy and about 30 other policymakers to a high-level dinner debate about public-private cooperation in cyber-security. While Commissioner Kroes stated that "we need to exchange good practices before we run out of time", Iklódy called for "more prevention and resilience".
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French Foreign Minister Alain Juppé announced yesterday that France would not give in to “panic” and pull its troops out of Afghanistan this year after four French soldiers were killed last week. The four unarmed soldiers were killed at a base in eastern Afghanistan in an attack that left 15 other French troops wounded. Juppé was responding to a call from former Prime Minister Laurent Fabius
EADS Chief Executive Louis Gallois has urged the British and French governments to open up plans for a proposed MALE Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) to include EADS and other European partners. By opening up the programme, EADS hopes to avoid a repetition of the Eurofighter Typhoon versus Rafale combat aircrafts clash, which divided European industry into a battle for foreign sales last year.
China is alleged to have launched a new cyber-weapon against the US Defense Department’s common access cards, with the technology to get inside individual computers after users open a standard PDF email file. When an access card is used, the virus embeds itself in the user’s computer and logs personal identification numbers and codes associated with that card, enabling the creators to steal information from military networks...
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