Catherine Stupp
Wall Street Journal
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Privacy Executives Hope Trans-Atlantic Deal Withstands Court Challenges
A new agreement is expected to be in place in early 2023, making it easier to move data about EU citizens to the U.S., though many worry the deal could be short-lived. → Read More
Companies Should Treat Cyber Threats as Core Business Risk, U.S. Cyber Official Says
Brandon Wales, executive director of CISA, said boards need to push their companies to invest more on digital defense, adding that insurers and shareholders will be exerting pressure as well. → Read More
Cyberattack Raises Pressure on European Water Providers During Drought
A cyberattack on a British company that supplies drinking water to 1.6 million customers has raised security concerns about the vulnerability of such utilities across drought-stricken Europe. → Read More
Germany Offers Model for Space-Industry Cybersecurity Standards
Cyber threats to the space sector are growing as the industry expands. European companies and officials want global standards to improve cybersecurity. → Read More
WHO Rushed In New Security Steps After 2020 Cyberattack
During the early months of the Covid-19 pandemic, the World Health Organization’s cybersecurity team was caught off guard by a huge increase in attempts to hack its systems. → Read More
European Police Aim to Keep Young Hackers From Slipping Into Cybercrime
Teenagers and children, some as young as 8, can acquire simple skills of criminal hacking, police say. COPS, a Dutch group to steer young people away from cybercrime, is being replicated in Finland, Denmark and elsewhere. → Read More
European, U.S. Groups Plan Salvo of Privacy Complaints Against Google
Complainants invoke ‘privacy-by-design’ provision of EU law in arguing that Google complicates opting out of data-collection. → Read More
Ukraine Has Begun Moving Sensitive Data Outside Its Borders
Some government databases are already on cloud servers in Poland, and officials are negotiating similar arrangements with France, Estonia and several other nations. → Read More
Cyber Defense Confidence Ebbs as Ransomware Attacks Multiply
Despite Washington’s recent attempts to expand cybersecurity rules and disrupt hacking gangs, ransomware continues to proliferate and executives report unease about their companies’ ability to ward off the threat. → Read More
Ukraine War Shows Need for Global Data-Privacy Agreement, EU Officials Say
Russia’s invasion points to a sharper “dividing line” between democratic countries with rules to protect privacy and more authoritarian nations that could misuse data, according to one official. → Read More
Sweden, Finland Weigh Cyber Risks Stemming From NATO Applications
Authorities in Sweden and Finland have raised alert levels for cyberattacks, concerned they face increased hacking risks because of the war in Ukraine and the two Nordic countries’ subsequent applications to join NATO. → Read More
European Wind-Energy Sector Hit in Wave of Hacks
Cyberattacks on three European wind-energy companies since the start of the war in Ukraine have raised alarm that hackers sympathetic to Russia are trying to cause mayhem in a sector set to benefit from efforts to lessen reliance on Russian oil and gas. → Read More
NATO Cyber Exercise Proceeds Against Backdrop of Ukraine War
This year’s ‘Locked Shields’ war game has participants fighting off simulated hacks on power grids and financial-messaging systems. → Read More
NATO Cyber Game Tests Defenses Amid War in Ukraine
NATO’s large, multiday cyber defense exercise is set to bring together technical experts from alliance countries and Ukraine nearly two months after Russia’s invasion. → Read More
Ukraine Thwarts Cyberattack on Electric Grid, Officials Say
The attack, which was set for last Friday, used software similar to the ‘industroyer’ code used in a 2016 hack of Kyiv’s grid, experts noted. → Read More
U.S. Companies Face More Restrictions After Privacy Ruling Against Google
American technology providers are under intense pressure in Europe after a regulator there found Google Analytics’ services illegal. The decision is expected to spur a domino effect that could result in similar restrictions for other U.S. tech providers. → Read More
EU Companies Face Fallout From Decision Against Google
An Austrian regulator said Google Analytics posed a privacy risk, the latest move by European authorities scrutinizing businesses’ ties to big tech. → Read More
Inside a Ransomware Hit at Nordic Choice Hotels
Hotel staff escorted guests to their rooms when digital keycards stopped working. → Read More
Software Vulnerability Expected to Persist, Possibly for Months
A flaw in a widely used piece of internet software is prompting companies to rush to update their systems and prevent cyberattacks, but the technology’s ubiquity means the threat could affect businesses for months. → Read More
Norsk Hydro Probe Shows Slow Pace of International Ransomware Cases
The Norwegian aluminum maker was hit by hackers in March 2019. Suspects were apprehended last month. → Read More