The Netherlands honored the Supreme Commander of the Australian Army on Thursday with a special award for his deployment after crash MH17. Commandant of the Armed Forces Tom Middendorp drew his colleague Mark Binskin the embellishments of the commander in the Order of Orange-Nassau, with the swords. This award is only awarded every four to five years.
More and more municipalities broadcast live council and committee meetings online. In 2009, 40 percent of all municipalities in the Netherlands did not use audio or video broadcasts, in 2017, it almost doubled to 78 percent. This is evidenced by an inventory of Company Webcast.
As a first step, ROC Mondriaan in The Hague began to explicitly teach their students how to program such malicious hackers out of doors.
The number of single-traveling minor immigrants in the world has been almost fivefold in a few years. It was about 300,000 children in the 2015-2016 period, UNICEF UNICEF report published in a Thursday. 'In 2010-2011 there were 66,000', according to the organization.
In a vital part of the Dutch energy supply, an attack with ransomware was launched in early March 2017. That reported the National Cyber Security Center (NCSC) on Wednesday. In the first three months of this year, two government agencies have also been victims of hostage software. In total, 116 cyber incidents were reported to the NCSC during the first three months.
Just over a quarter of Android smartphones in the Netherlands do not contain the most recent security update. The Consumer Federation complained about this on Tuesday.
It is a good fortune that the Netherlands has not been affected as much by the hostage software WannaCry as, for example, Great Britain. State Secretary Klaas Dijkhoff (Security and Justice) said on Tuesday at the opening of the major One Conference on Cyber Security in The Hague.
The Dutch Traffic Controls Association (VNV) sees the ban on laptops and tablets in the hand luggage on flights to the United States. The UN expects the Americans to announce a ban on the use of laptops, e-readers and tablets aboard aircraft on the way from the EU to the US within a few days.
The Dutch Municipalities Association (VNG) provides officials with various tips to prevent problems with ransomware.
Until now, no Dutch organizations from vital sectors and government have been known to be affected by an infection with WannaCry ransomware. That has reported the National Cyber Security Center (NCSC) in the Netherlands on Sunday.
The Netherlands is spending too little money on cyber security. Our country repeatedly says that this topic is a priority, but does not turn the words into action.
Samsung's new parade horses, the Galaxy S8 and S8 + are susceptible to fake damage. The glass of the smartphones, with an extra narrow edge around the screen, breaks 'remarkably fast'. That is what the Consumer Union reports, based on a test by European consumer organizations.
Rob Wainwright, Director of Europol, is worried that Monday, when many computers are launched at companies, many computers may be infected worldwide with ransomware or hostage software. That he said to the English television channel ITV on Sunday.
An investigator of the MalwareTech blog has discovered how the infection of computers and the spread of the ransomware WannaCrypt goes into its work and how it can be stopped. The hostage software connected to a domain name that was not found to be registered. The researcher has registered the domain name. If infected machines get in touch, the domain name now acts as 'kill switch', an 'emergency brake' that stops the infection.
Friday's attack with ransomware, so-called hostage software that encrypts files on computers and releases release for payment, shows how vulnerable the computer world is. That said Ronald Prince of security company Fox-IT Saturday. The spread of the virus has stopped since Friday night.
Foreign gambling sites have free play in the Netherlands. They can punish all rules without penalty because the fines do not prove to be indemnified. It's even so bad that no cents have been received since 2014.
Reporting of business or contacting the police via the police website has been possible since Friday at 4.30 pm on Friday.
The wave of ransomware infections, software that 'coughs' computers by encrypting files, is also likely to make victims in the Netherlands. That says Ronald Prins from security company Fox IT.
In the first quarter of this year, more than 2300 data sheets were reported to the Personal Data Authority. This is evidenced by data released by the supervisor this week. Comparison: about 556 data sheets were reported by almost 2016, of which over a thousand in the first quarter.
Dutch people still do not know what to do if someone gets a cardiac arrest. Almost three quarters have too little knowledge about resuscitation. That was the case two years ago. According to the Red Cross, it is very important that this change occurs and that people will follow a resuscitation course.
A board member of the Delfland water board was arrested last Sunday in The Hague Forest because he had been abusing a woman in the forest soon.
The negotiating quartet VVD, CDA, D66 and GroenLinks have now reached agreement on a number of topics. There will also be more meetings in the evenings.
The four negotiating parties do not want to give openness about the progress of the formation. The rest of the Lower House asked about it.
After the intervention of the Veteran Ombudsman, Reinier van Zutphen, Defense has, after 66 years, yet granted a bravery award to the relatives of a Korea veteran. That reports the National Ombudsman. The corporal was nominated for a distinction in 1951 because he fell in the rescue of injured comrades during a firefight. The nomination had been sought for years, then refused consecutive ministers of defense to investigate.
Students are insufficiently prepared for life and work in a digital society, the Education Council concludes in a Tuesday published research.
Too few suspects of cybercrime are coming to court. That's what the Public Prosecutor's Office writes monday in his annual report about 2016. Police and justice are working to get more knowledge and manpower. The '' necessary catch-up '' explains the outcome, according to the report.
Police corps leadership today deals with the Police Police Central Works Council (COR) about the unrest and dissatisfaction that comes with the plan to disarm police officers. The matter has been put on the agenda promptly after reporting in The Telegraph.
The large employers' organizations still sign their signed under earlier agreements to give unemployed unemployed three years of unemployment benefit.
Since 2015, several dozens of asylum permits have been withdrawn, as people traveled to their country of origin. This has been written by the Deputy State Secretary Klaas Dijkhoff (Asylum) to the Lower House on Monday.
The President of the European Central Bank (ECB), Mario Draghi, is still coming to the Lower House after an earlier termination. He will meet President Khadija Arib first Wednesday, after which other MPs will talk about the ECB's policy.
