As AI and digital technologies advance, the European cyber threat landscape continues to evolve, presenting new challenges that require stronger partnerships and enhanced solutions. Ransomware groups and state-sponsored actors from Russia, China, Iran, and North Korea continue to grow in scope and sophistication, and European cyber protection cannot afford to stand still.
That is why, today, in Berlin, we are announcing a new Microsoft initiative to expand our longstanding work to help defend Europe’s cybersecurity. Implementing one of the five European Digital Commitments I shared in Brussels five weeks ago, we are launching a new European Security Program that adds to the company’s longstanding global Government Security Program.
This new program expands the geographic reach of our existing work and adds new elements that will become critical to Europe’s protection. It puts AI at the center of our work as a tool to protect traditional cybersecurity needs and strengthens our protection of digital and AI infrastructure.
We are launching the European Security Program with three new elements:
La sécurité des données est un équilibre délicat, où chaque faille peut laisser entrer des risques menaçant l’intégrité, la disponibilité et la confidentialité des informations. Lorsqu’une violation de la sécurité se produit, le droit impose à certaines conditions une direction : celle de l’alerte et de la transparence.
Pour orienter les responsables du traitement, le Préposé fédéral à la protection des données (PFPDT) offre un guide visant à éclairer le devoir d’annonce des violations de la sécurité des données.
At the start of September, Kawasaki Motors Europe, (KME) was the subject of a cyber-attack which, although not successful, resulted in the company’s servers being temporarily isolated until a strategic recovery plan was initiated later on the same day.
KME and its country Branches operate a large number of servers and, as a precaution, it was decided to isolate each one and put a cleansing process in place whereby all data was checked and any suspicious material identified and dealt with.
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7 December 2023 - Apache Struts version 6.3.0.2 General Availability
The Apache Struts group is pleased to announce that Apache Struts version 6.3.0.2 is available as a “General Availability” release. The GA designation is our highest quality grade.
The Apache Struts is an elegant, extensible framework for creating enterprise-ready Java web applications. The framework has been designed to streamline the full development cycle, from building, to deploying, to maintaining applications over time.
This version addresses a potential security vulnerability identified as CVE-2023-50164 and described in S2-066 - please read the mentioned security bulletins for more details. This is a drop-in replacement and upgrade should be straightforward.
The University of Zurich is currently the target of a serious cyberattack. The perpetrators appear to be acting in a very professional manner and are part of a current accumulation of attacks on educational and health institutions. Several attacks have been carried out on universities in German-speaking countries in recent weeks, resulting in suspension of their IT services for extended periods of time. The attacks are usually carried out by compromising several individual accounts and systems.