ICT Security-Sécurité PC et Internet

Media reports that European Commission representatives had their computers hacked at the Internet Governance Forum in Baku last week have been vastly inflated.

The European Digital Agenda Commissioner, Neelie Kroes mentioned in her blog that a staff member's computer was hacked, but her spokesman, Ryan Heath, explained on Monday that it was his private computer that may have been compromised.

"It was not an official Commission computer and it contained no sensitive data. It was my own MacBook that I been using in the hotel. When I switched it on three hours later, I discovered a message telling me that my security had been compromised that that I may have been hacked," he said.

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http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/news/security/3410509/no-need-panic-eu-commission-data-safe/

Steelie Neelie admits laptop hack during IGF

EU officials' MacBooks hacked in Azerbaijani hotel

Posted in Security, 13th November 2012 04:42 GMT

Two laptops used by European Commission officials were pinched last week in Azerbaijan's capital Baku during the Internet Governance Forum, Digital Agenda commissioner Neelie Kroes has revealed.

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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/11/13/ec_kroes_hack_azerbaijan_igf_macbook/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter