cyber security

The Centre of Registers has opened an Information Security Operations Centre that will protect the cyber security of public records and state level information systems.

Lithuanian Defence Minister Juozas Olekas, Latvian Defence Minister Raimonds Bergmanis and Estonian Economic Affairs and Communications Minister Kristen Michal electronically signed a memorandum on cooperation in cyber security on Wednesday.

After hackers broke into the website of the Lithuanian Army's Joint Staff, Lithuanian prosecutors sent out requests for legal assistance to foreign countries.

Lithuania's major online news outlets had their operations disturbed late Thursday night. Experts suspect preparations for a major cyber attack against Lithuania.

The Wednesday's cyber attack on the website of the Lithuanian Armed Forces Joint Staff was plotted for at least two weeks, with requests sent from Iran, among other countries, says Rimantas Černiauskas, director of the National Cyber Security Centre.

Lithuanian TV channel TV3 said on Tuesday it had turned to law enforcement over a recent cyber attack that led to the distortion of the results of a TV viewers' poll on Russian propaganda.

According to a Eurobarometer survey, 85 percent of internet users in the European Union believe that the risk of becoming a victim of cybercrime is growing (a 9-percent increase compared with the survey from 2013).

The number of cyber incidents has increased by 43 percent over the past year, figures from the Lithuanian national Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-LT) have shown.

National Cyber Security Centre was launched in Lithuania on 1 January. It was founded as a division of the Ministry of National Defence. The establishment of the centre was envisaged in the Law on Cyber Security and the amendments to related legislation.

Lithuania is founding the National Centre of Cyber Security to lead the country's effort to safeguard its information resources and infrastructure.

The Lithuanian Military Academy is preparing premises for the projected National Centre of Cyber Security, Defence Minister Juozas Olekas says.

The Lithuania Tribune spoke with Nerijus Maliukevičius, lecturer and researcher at Vilnius University's Institute of International Relations and Political Science, about differences between cyber warfare and propaganda war.

Although the real gunshots are echoing from Ukraine, which is thousands of kilometres away from Lithuania, the echoes of warfare in our country's cyberspace are heard loud and clear and, unfortunately, are likely to get even more so. So says Kaunas University of Technology Professor Algimantas Venčk...

Lithuania's President Dalia Grybauskaitė on Tuesday urged the government to boost defence spending in the face of Russian threats and tame financial populism in the run-up to elections to local governments.