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Mozilla extends plug-in detection page to all major browsers

Tuesday, May 18th, 2010

The Mozilla Firefox development team has recently came with the idea of warning Firefox users about outdated, insecure or buggy plug-in. It was first implemented for Adobe flash plug in. It was created as a What’s New page and integrated in recent Firefox updates.

The scripts on the page check for installed plugins and compare the version of the installed plugin with the latest version that is offered officially by the developer of the plugin. Some supported plug-ins (among others) are Apple Quicktime, Shockwave Flash, Adobe Acrobat, Java, RealPlayer and Windows Media Player plugins. Furthermore the Mozila Firefox development team now extends the page to support all the popular browsers.

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FORWARD at the ICT Days 2009 in Sofia

Thursday, November 5th, 2009

From 28th to 31st of October 2009 at Inter Expo Center – Sofia, Bulgaria, the Days of Information and Communication Technologies 2009 were held. The event combined specialised exhibition ICT Expo and an interesting seminar program.
ICT Expo offers a platform for comparing the current industrial trends and product presentations. The aim of ICT Expo is to acquaint visitors with the latest innovations in all fields of information and communication technologies – server solutions, PC assembly components, personal and mobile computers, peripherals and network solutions, card technology, business process management, learning & knowledge solutions, telecommunication equipment, financial solutions, multimedia products, business management software and information safety, innovations from Bulgarian software developers.
The seminar programme included a forum where the business representatives had the opportunity to get acquainted with the new state administration, to discuss the state of the branch in crisis conditions.

As part of the seminar programme the FP7 EU project FORWARD was presented along with another EU funded project PSIRP. In a half-hour presentation Edita Djambazova from IPP-BAS described FORWARD’s goal, objectives, and results. Some of the emerging security threats identified during the project were discussed. The established security community around ICT-FORWARD was outlined as one of its important achievements.

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2nd FORWARD Workshop sum-up

Friday, June 12th, 2009

On May 4th and 5th of 2009, the FORWARD consortium organized the 2nd workshop of the project. The workshop took place in Hotel Delcloy in Côte d’Azur. The agenda focused on the progress of the FORWARD working groups (WGs) having both summary presentations of their work and focused panel discussions for each WG. The keynotes and presentations helped to spark discussions during the panel sessions that were also carried on during the scheduled breaks.

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The ICT Fair for Trust & Security Research: Aftermath

Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009

The ICT Fair for Trust and Security Research was organized by the Olomouc Region under the Czech Presidency of the EU and in collaboration with the EC. Its goal was to give practical information on the FP7 research opportunities and foster the partcipation in the forthcoming call for proposals. The vice-president of the Olomouc Region Mr. Michael Fisher opened the Fair and presented region’s experience in the collaboration with the EC in ICT. The vice-rector of the Palacky University in Olomouc Mr. Michal Malacka talked about University’s participation in European projects on information security.

The Head of Unit “Trust & Security” in DG INFSO of the European Commission Mr. Jacques Bus presented the ICT priorities in the Seventh Framework Program. He outlined that the main goals of the objective “Trustworthy ICT” is the building of Trustworthy Network Infrastructures and Trustworthy Service Infrastructures which are the way to develop the Future Internet as a conglomerate of heterogeneous networks and systems. The infrastructures of secure and trustworthy networks have to make the Future Internet more secure, to allow for monitoring and managing the security threats, to build secure infrastructures and virtual objects. It is important to make experiments, to pay attention to the societal impact and to the interaction between the technologies and the users. Mr. Bus announced the indicative opening date of the next Call for proposals is 31st July 2009 and the submission deadline is 3rd November 2009.

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ICT Fair for Trust & Security Research

Thursday, April 30th, 2009

The ICT Fair for Trust & Security Research will be held in Olomouc, the Czech Republic, on 14 May 2009. The ICT Fair is an event promoted by the Olomouc Region, the Czech Republic, in cooperation with the European Commission and is associated with the official program of the Semester of the Czech Presidency to the EU Council. The Fair is a unique opportunity for getting practical hands-on information and concrete advice on how to become involved in EU’s FP7 research activities.

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FORWARD future threats panel at EC2ND 2008

Tuesday, January 20th, 2009

The European Conference on Computer Network Defense (EC2ND) is an annual conference bringing together academia and industry to discuss topics in network and systems security. This year it was held at Dublin City University in Dublin, Ireland. The programme included a panel organised by FORWARD, where possible future threats on global ICT infrastructure were discussed. The panel constituted of members from all FORWARD working groups (WGs), and was headed by Sotiris Ioannidis.

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The Future of Network Resiliency in Europe

Saturday, December 20th, 2008

Communication networks are used every day by millions of European citizens to conduct business, communicate with their friends and family, get the latest news, etc. For this reason, network resiliency is of paramount importance to the European Union. The term resiliency is overloaded, but in this context we use it to mean networks that provide and maintain an acceptable level of service in face of faults (natural disasters, human error, or intentional malicious actions) affecting their normal operation.

The European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA) held a workshop on “Improving Resilience in European e-Communication Networks” on the 12-13 of November 2008 in Brussels. Sotiris Ioannidis participated in the workshop and gave a talk on the Resilience improving features of MPLS, IPv6 and DNSSEC.

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FORWARD at the 2nd EU-Korea Cooperation Forum on ICT Research

Sunday, December 7th, 2008

The relations between the European Union (EU) and the Republic of South Korea are founded on increasingly shared political values, strong economic links reflecting larger and larger bilateral trade and investment flows, and the EU’s reiterated support for South Korea’s policy of engagement with the North.

In 1995, the EU decided to negotiate a “Framework Agreement on Trade and Cooperation“, in recognition of South Korea’s increasing role in the Asian and global economy, and of its success in consolidating democracy. This Agreement entered into force in April 2001 and is implemented through an annual meeting of a Joint Committee.

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Threats at the ENISA-FORTH Summer School on Network and Information Security

Monday, October 6th, 2008

The first ENISA-FORTH Summer School on Network and Information Security was held in Crete, Greece between the 15th and the 19th of September. This year’s topic was “Network Security,” and brought together experts in Information Security, policy members from EU Member States and EU Institutions, decision makers from the industry as well as members of the research and academic community. The lectures covered the whole spectrum of Network Security, including financial, political, legal, and technological issues. The detail of the talks varied from highly technical to high-level, to cater to different kinds of participants. In total there were about one hundred participants, including members of the press, mostly from Europe, but also from the United States, the Middle East, and Asia.

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1st FORWARD Workshop sum-up

Tuesday, May 13th, 2008

On the 17th and 18th of April, the 1st FORWARD workshop took place at Lindholmen Science Park, Göteborg, Sweden. The agenda of the workshop focused on future and emerging threats, covering multiple aspects, ranging from malicious hardware and attacks on routing infrastructures to mobile threats and the underground economy. The workshop also involved active discussions among all attendees.

They keynote speech of the first day was given by Pradeep Khosla from CyLab, Carnegie-Mellon University and was titled “Cybersecurity: Opportunities and changes”. Apart from the keynote speech, nine other presentations were given as part of the core workshop agenda. The presentations were around threats on the Internet and particularly  emerging threats to the internet infrastructure, malicious hardware, the business of cyber-crime, security of control and supervision systems and privacy control. After the presentations, five working groups were formed: large-scale software systems, network and monitoring, critical infrastructure protection, malware and finally fraud. Each working group discussed future and emerging threats concerning the group’s topic as well as possible collaborations among attendees. The day closed with a presentation from Thomas Skordas about the ICT Security Work Programme.

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