This week, Poland’s Supreme Court quashed an ongoing probe into spyware abuses allegedly conducted by its own government - claiming it to be “unconstitutional”. Comprehensive new research, published earlier this month by the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research (DFR) Labs, also now shows that government abuse of spyware is now widespread across the European Union (EU). The findings of DFR Labs’ research provide a truly damning description of the widespread abuse of spyware by governments across Europe, accusing the EU of effectively turning a blind eye to the widespread abuse of its citizens’ rights despite being made aware of the widespread abuses at least two years ago. In 2022, the European Parliament (EP), frustrated by the Commission’s reluctance to tackle the growing scandal, established the PEGA Committee to investigate the misuse of surveillance spyware.
According to a survey from Coro, 73% of SME cybersecurity professionals admittedly say that they've missed, ignored, or failed to act accordingly on a high-priority security alert. The survey also found respondents to spend an average of 4 hours and 43 minutes managing their cyber security tools daily, with an average of 11.55 tools in their security stack.
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