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Recommendations for a cybersecure election campaign Elections form the cornerstone of the democratic process. Terrorist groups, criminals or political actors may try to influence the outcome. As a result, political parties and their candidates are a

A Denial of Service (DOS) attack is a cyber-attack that targets the normal traffic of a particular service. In a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack, a network website is overloaded by a botnet that simultaneously sends requests to the victim. The

On March, the European Parliament and the Belgian Presidency of the Council of the European Union stroke a provisional political agreement to strengthen cybersecurity capacities in the EU, on the Cyber Solidarity Act, as well as on the targeted

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and international partners have disrupted a botnet (network of hacked routers) operated by the Russian intelligence service (GRU). In Belgium, the FBI called on the expertise of the Centre for Cybersecurity

Do you also feel like you are getting few weird text messages anymore? Until recently, an awful lot of nasty text messages were circulating, but since November last year, Telenet and Proximus have been systematically stopping suspicious text messages.

DDoS Protection and Prevention - Technical Guideline . A Denial of Service (DOS) attack is a cyber-attack that targets the normal traffic of a particular service. In a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack, a network website is overloaded

The richer a country, the more ransomware victims it has

Hacktivism and ransomware Two major trends have dominated the European cyberthreat landscape: the rise of hacktivism (mostly taking the form of DDoS operations) and the relentless growth of ransomware attacks. Hacktivism (linked mainly to geopolitical

The public consultation on the draft law establishing a framework for the cybersecurity of networks and information systems of general interest for public security ("NIS2 law"), as well as on the draft implementing Royal Decree , was a great success.  

Last year, alert citizens sent us almost  million messages  to suspicious@safeonweb.be. By , that figure had already risen to million. On average, we received ,000 messages a day. February , was a record day, with , messages! Thanks