cyber security

Electric car charging service Ignitis ON suffered a cyberattack on Sunday, 11 February, and data of at least 20,000 clients has been leaked.

Former Prime Minister of Estonia Taavi Rõivas to the Lithuania Tribune (EN.DELFI) about the future of blockchain technology, about cooperation between Lithuania and Estonian in blockchain, what Estonian could learn from Lithuania and vice versa. We also spoke about 2030, yes, the future.

Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis advises Lithuanians not to use the Yandex.Taxi ride-sharing application which he says collects excessive user data.

Lithuania's national defense system is consolidating the cyber security capacities into a single institution, Defense Vice-Minister Edvinas Kerza said on Monday.

Lithuania's Dalia Grybauskaitė and her Baltic counterparts will meet with US Vice-President Mike Pence in Tallinn, pledging to address US military assistance, cyber security, the Belarusian nuclear power plant in Astravyets and supplies of US liquefied gas to Europe.

Rapid response teams for cyber operations are being set up from civilians in Lithuania's defense system.

Lithuania's Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis says that the attention on cyber security in institutions in Lithuania is insufficient.

Lithuania could get cyber recruits and generate a reserve of people troops within the next few years, says Defence Minister Raimundas Karoblis.

Rudy Giuliani, a former New York City mayor and a political ally of US President Donald Trump, may come to Lithuania in the spring, Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius said on Thursday.

Lithuania should not tie itself to specific financing figures as its defence spending will depend on geopolitical challenges and available financial resources, President Dalia Grybauskaitė said on Wednesday.

Lithuania needs a bigger defence budget to ensure cyber security and prepare for universal military conscription, says Vytautas Bakas, chairman of the parliament's Committee on National Security and Defence, which has recently called on political parties to commit to increasing defence spending to 2...

The government's input in Lithuania's cyber security is lacking, President Dalia Grybauskaitė said after meeting with the new Cabinet on Wednesday.

It is understandable why at the end of this year political analysts raise questions from evermore acute angles. Edward Lucas for one has expressed fears as to whether NATO will withstand Donald Trump’s administration or if the European Union can still be saved.

Over a dozen websites of Lithuanian public institutions were hit by a cyber attack last Thursday, but a more coordinated attack could cause serious damage, according to security experts.

A dozen state institutions had their information systems affected by a hacker attack.

Four Lithuanian state institutions have been subjected to cyber attacks over the past several days.

Websites of the Lithuanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs came under a cyber attack on Tuesday evening. It is the second Lithuanian state institution to be targeted by hackers this week.

The Lithuanian parliament's website went down again on Tuesday.

The Lithuanian parliament‘s website and the websites of a number of non-governmental organisations were hit by cyber attacks over the last number of days.

The Lithuanian parliament's website cannot be reached by foreign users due to a cyber attack, the Seimas office said on Monday morning.