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Building societal resilience to cyber threats focus of annual OSCE conference
Publishing date: 20 October 2022
ŁÓDŹ, 20 October 2022 – Increasing societal resilience to cyber threats through enhanced public awareness and education is the focus of the OSCE’S annual cyber/ICT security conference held on 20 and 21 October in Łódź, Poland.
Statement of the OSCE Mission to BiH on recent cyber-attack on the BiH Parliamentary Assembly
Publishing date: 27 September 2022
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina
What we do: Cyber/ICT Security
SARAJEVO, 27 September 2022- The OSCE Mission to BiH finds that the recent cyber-attack on the BiH Parliamentary Assembly illustrates both the vulnerability of key ICT systems in BiH and the urgency to address cybersecurity gaps. This attack has endangered the transparency of legislative work and
Cyber Incident Classification System in focus of OSCE workshop in Banja Luka
Publishing date: 23 September 2022
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina
What we do: Cyber/ICT Security
The OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina supported a “National Cyber Incident Classification” workshop for South-East and Eastern Europe in Banja Luka on 22 and 23 September 2022. The workshop was organized by the OSCE’s Transnational Threats Department (TNTD), in co-operation with the Republika Srpska Ministry of Scientific and Technological Development and the Higher Education and Information Society.
OSCE Mission to Montenegro organizes regional conference on countering online child exploitation
Publishing date: 5 September 2022
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Montenegro
What we do: Combating trafficking in human beings, Cyber/ICT Security, Policing
Participants of a two-day regional conference “Countering online Child Exploitation in Southeast Europe”, organized by the OSCE Mission to Montenegro on 5 and 6 September 2022 in Budva, shared approaches and experiences and committed to improve their regional co-operation in providing an effective response to online sexual exploitation of children.
Hacker attack on Buka web portal's Facebook page is a violation of right to freedom of expression
Publishing date: 21 July 2022
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina
What we do: Cyber/ICT Security, Media freedom and development
This morning news portal BUKA lost access to their Facebook page because their account was hacked.
OSCE trains Central Asian law enforcement experts to combat cybercrime through open source digital forensics
Publishing date: 20 May 2022
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Programme Office in Astana, OSCE Secretariat
What we do: Cyber/ICT Security
Law enforcement experts from Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan have improved their capacity to fight cybercrime through a training course organized on 16-20 May by the OSCE Transnational Threats Department in close co-operation with the OSCE Programme Office in Nur-Sultan and the Law Enforcement Academy under the General Prosecutor’s Office of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Uzbekistan co-hosts ceremony to award winners of open data hackathon
Publishing date: 28 December 2021
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Uzbekistan
What we do: Cyber/ICT Security
On 28 December 2021, the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Uzbekistan (PCUz) co-hosted an award ceremony recognizing the winners of the Open Data Challenge 2021 hackathon, an IT contest to develop digital solutions based on open data. The ceremony and the hackathon were organized by the PCUz in collaboration with the State Committee of the Republic of Uzbekistan on Statistics (UZSTAT), the Technological Park of Software Products and Information Technologies (IT-Park Uzbekistan) and other national partners.