Issue no. 412 - 28 November 2010

• EU - Commission to boost Europe's defences against cyber-attacks (RADPI)
  The European Commission has unveiled two new measures to ensure that Europe can defend itself from attacks against its key information (IT) systems. A proposal for a Directive to deal with new cyber crimes, such as large-scale cyber attacks, is complemented by a proposal for a Regulation to strengthen and modernise the European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA). see Proposal for a Directive on attacks against information systems, repealing Framework Decision 2005/222/JHA.

• The Stuxnet outbreak: A worm in the centrifuge (Economist)
  An unusually sophisticated cyber-weapon is mysterious but important.

• UK - Man jailed over computer password refusal (BBC)
  A teenager has been jailed for 16 weeks after he refused to give police the password to his computer. Oliver Drage, 19, of Liverpool, was arrested in May 2009 by police tackling child sexual exploitation. Police seized his computer but could not access material on it as it had a 50-character encryption password. Drage was convicted of failing to disclose an encryption key in September.

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