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NATO could be the next victim of a data breach

June 27th, 2011

NATO's e-Bookshop attacked

Data breach and its definition

Data breach incidents range from planned attacks of organized crime on a national government website to carelessly selling of used computer equipment or data storage media. Definition “A data breach is a security incident in which sensitive, protected or confidential data is copied, transmitted, viewed, stolen or used by an individual unauthorized to do so.”

What do data breaches include?

Data breaches include financial information such as credit card or bank details, personal health information (PHI), personally identifiable information (PII), trade secrets of corporations or intellectual property

What happened at NATO?

NATO was recently notified of a possible data breach from a NATO-related website run by an external company

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) has issued a statement

“Police dealing with digital crimes have notified NATO of a probable data breach from a NATO-related website operated by an external company. NATO’s e-Bookshop is a separate service for the public for the release of NATO information and does not contain any classified data. Access to the site has been blocked and subscribers have been notified.”

In detail

The e-Bookshop site offers free access for the general public to NATO publications and multimedia products in both electronic and print format s and does not contain classified documents.

The site has been closed down and users have been informed. The virtual bookstore is reachable though, through the NATO web address.

NATO has not disclosed as to what data was lost or how the attackers hit the server. It has just informed about a data breach and confirmed that no confidential data was compromised.

Speculation about the attack being related to NATO’s recent clash with the online group Anonymous is very high. The global organization had warned member nations about the rising threat of “hacktivism,” or carrying out cyberattacks for political purposes.

But “Anonymous” has completely defended this crime saying “NATO fears the group not because it’s a “threat to society,” but because it’s a “threat to the established hierarchy.” It further added “This is no longer your world. It is our world – the people’s world.
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NATO’s strategy

NATO’s Strategic Concept, identifies cyber defence as one of the critical tasks to be carried out develop to prevent, detect, defend against and recover from cyber-attacks. NATO defence ministers agreed this month on a cyber defence action plan to limit these attacks. This action plan is already being implemented.

LulzSec group attacks at the same time

The LulzSec hacker group has broken into official computers used by the State of Arizona. The accessed data which includes personal emails, names, addresses and passwords of officials, along with confidential document has been made public online.

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United Kingdom Tops Cyber Security

March 18th, 2010

All the internet community of UK would be extremely glad to hear that United Kingdom’s practices in Cyber Security have been found to be reasonable and adequately equipped to deal with the cyber security threats and other vunlerability attacks

The report was released by House of Lords committee. Apparently the House of Lords EU community report looked at how United Kingdom has geared up towards the defence mechanism in the Cyber space. In addition, the UK has been praised for their security effort which also says that the nation leads every other EU country and their benchmarks are unmatches and something that should be adopted by others in the fraternity.

With the encouragement, UK has also been advised to organize a training sessions focussed towards Cyber security. In addition, the report has also suggested the inclusion of US and NATO.

The report has also criticized ENISA, the cyber security agency of European Union for their location. The agency is located in a small Greek island of Crete.

According to the report, “We are convinced that the decision to site ENISA at Heraklion was not taken on the basis of a careful cost/benefit analysis, and it has led and continues to lead to problems over the recruitment and retention of staff, and over the scheduling of meetings,” .

In a statement issued by, Lord Jopling, chairman of the sub-committee “We believe strongly that the government and the EU should be giving greater attention to how cyber-security could be developed on a global basis. The internet has no borders, and it is important that any proposals from the EC are considered in a global context. “A first step must be better cooperation with NATO. The EU and NATO have similar interests in defence against cyber-attacks and work in similar ways, yet there is virtually no communication between them. There must be cooperation rather than duplication. “Further to this, broadening the dialogue with other major international players, such as the US, Russia and China will be essential if we are to become more robust in our defences against cyber attacks.”

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