CGI Group‘s Logica subsidiary has developed a new mobile application intended for athletes to notify anti-doping authorities of their current location in order to be ready for drug tests. The World Anti-Doping Agency selected the whereabouts app to help manage its database containing details on where athletes are at a given time, CGI said Tuesday. [...]
Police in the Netherlands on Saturday arrested a 19-year-old accused of cyber attacking the website of the public prosecution office as part of a bigger effort to support WikiLeaks, according to Reuters. Naked Security reported the DDoS attack on the prosecution website followed the Dutch police’s arrest of a 16-year-old in connection with cyber attacks [...]
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A hacker network in the Netherlands was unraveled earlier this week, and the main suspect nabbed in Armenia less than a day later. While a Dutch expert hailed the operation as unique, the Netherlands still placed seventh on a list of countries hardest hit by cyber crime, according to Radio Netherlands Worldwide. The Armenian suspect [...]
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The number of instances of serious cyber crime in the Netherlands has reached 170 so far this year, compared to last year’s 150 incidents, according to a Dutch newspaper. Elly van den Heuvel, head of the Dutch government’s emergency response team GOVCERT.NL, told Financieele Dagblad, “We are under increasing pressure because cyber crime is growing [...]
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