News Article
20 January 201
China is alleged to have launched a new cyber-weapon against the U.S. Defence 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 while troops and civilians work at their desks.
Join the brainstorming for a broad discussion in the context of ongoing global financial turmoil and ever-present transnational threats ranging from WMD proliferation to drugs and human trafficking.
SDA co-presidents Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, former NATO Secretary General, and Javier Solana, former EU High Representative for Common Foreign and Security Policy will welcome General James L. Jones at a gala dinner to mark the SDA’s 10th anniversary as Brussels’ leading security and defence think-tank on Thursday 24th May 2012. Assembled guests will enjoy lively debates with key personalities and a wide range of high-profile people in an informal and entertaining atmosphere.
A hacker, going by the name of YamaTough, has hacked antivirus firm Symantec and released the source code for the company’s pcAnywhere utility.
On January 30th 2012, the SDA hosted two events in the framework of its cyber initiative and launched its cyber-study “Cyber-security: The vexed question of global rules”.
The European Parliament Committee on Industry, Research and Energy approved draft legislation to strengthen the European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA).
