Dutch government to design Cyber Defence doctrine
In the past I’ve always said that the Dutch government needs to do more in the area of Cyber Warfare / Cyber Security because there didn’t seem to be too much going on. Our Defence department didn’t...
View ArticleDutch Dept. of Defence CIO speaks on Cyber Warfare
(Apologies for my tardiness regarding the posting of this information, I was too engrossed in work to post this sooner. I had planned to see this talk of Major General Gijsbers myself, but I was denied...
View ArticleDutch Minister of Defence: Cyber to get its share
Confirming earlier official documents published by the Dutch government, the new Dutch Defence minister Hans Hillen re-stated that the Dutch armed forces will indeed be spending part of its budget for...
View ArticleTwo Million Budget for Dutch Cyber Operations in 2012
Records posted by the Dutch government reflect that the Armed Forces budget for Dutch cyber operations in 2012 has been estimated at 2 million euro´s. A small sum, but still a considerable one in the...
View ArticleThe Dutch, the Yanks, the Cloud and YOU
Recently a research project by the Amsterdam University [PDF Alert] revealed that US law allows for the US government to access information stored in the Cloud, by (ab)using the PATRIOT act. Multiple...
View ArticleTrojans for the Bundestag – German PD acquired Finfisher
In December of last year, the German public prosecutors’ office had declared that there was no legal basis for the use of the so-called “Bundestrojaner” spyware, which was used to spy on German...
View ArticleOn Dutch Banking Woes and DDoS Attacks
If you don’t live in the Netherlands or don’t happen to have a Dutch bank account, you can certainly be forgiven for not having caught wind of the major banking woes that have been plaguing the Dutch....
View ArticleGCCS2015 Part II: Government Influence is the Key Issue
(As published on Norse: Feb 5th, 2015) As we noted in Part I: GCCS2015: Battlefield for the Internets’ Multi-stakeholder Coup, the next iteration of the Global Conference on CyberSpace (GCCS2015) will...
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