According to the website of EU Commissioner Cecilia Malmström:

During the joint press conference Neelie Kroes underlined that "the EU institutions and governments must work ever closer together, to help us understand the nature and scale of the new cyber treats".

"There is a clear increase in the number of cyber crimes – from attacks against countries like Estonia in 2007 to more of an every day illegal activity, where felonies such as credit card thefts, money transfers, identity thefts, and industrial espionage is carried out by a new type of criminals. By using so called botnets, criminals can take control of computers all over the world. These stories seem like science fiction, but they are unfortunately the reality of an increasingly lucrative business", said Cecilia Malmström.

The Directive proposals are a first step in strengthening the EU tools in meeting the cyber crime threats. In the action-oriented EU Internal Security Strategy that Cecilia Malmström is planning to put forward later this fall, the EU's work against cyber criminality will be an important component.

Read Cecilia Malmström's and Neelie Kroes' two proposals in full, watch today's press conference, and read more in the press release and in the two memos.

The proposals are also archive in our own files, here and here (in case the links above expire).

According to the website of EU Commissioner Cecilia Malmström:

During the joint press conference Neelie Kroes underlined that "the EU institutions and governments must work ever closer together, to help us understand the nature and scale of the new cyber treats".

"There is a clear increase in the number of cyber crimes – from attacks against countries like Estonia in 2007 to more of an every day illegal activity, where felonies such as credit card thefts, money transfers, identity thefts, and industrial espionage is carried out by a new type of criminals. By using so called botnets, criminals can take control of computers all over the world. These stories seem like science fiction, but they are unfortunately the reality of an increasingly lucrative business", said Cecilia Malmström.

The Directive proposals are a first step in strengthening the EU tools in meeting the cyber crime threats. In the action-oriented EU Internal Security Strategy that Cecilia Malmström is planning to put forward later this fall, the EU's work against cyber criminality will be an important component.

Read Cecilia Malmström's and Neelie Kroes' two proposals in full, watch today's press conference, and read more in the press release and in the two memos.

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