Key US defence contractor RSA Security admitted yesterday that cyber-attacks on the company’s SecurID authentication tokens earlier this year can be traced to two nation state hacker groups.
The new Danish prime minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt announced to José Manuel Barroso, president of the European Commission, that her government will terminate the current practice of enhanced border controls.
NATO and EU have started a joint operation of their KFOR and EULEX missions in the border region between Northern Kosovo and Serbia on October 13th.
A news analysis by the Financial Times revealed today that recent job cuts in Western defence companies such as BAE Systems are not primarily due to budget cuts in defence spending, but rather due to be defence hardware being increasingly built in the country of the client government.
The UK defence contractor Raytheon has been target of a recent cyber-attack.
A recent report by Eurocontrol, a European organisation for the safety of air navigation, demonstrates considerable gaps between the US and European countries in terms of the total number of fighter aircraft and density in military traffic in 2010.
European companies have been criticised by the European Parliament and NGOs for selling online surveillance technology to authoritarian regimes in the Arab world.
The EUFOR Althea mission to Bosnia will be considerably reduced.
US President Obama issued an executive order to foster the protection of the country’s information and computer security.
Retired US Air Force Gen. Michael Hayden warned the US House of Representatives of an over-amplified use of classification with respect to cyber-security.