Next May 25-26, Zoriana Dmytryshyna, Director of Institutional Relations at the Anti-Phishing Working Group European, will present the LOCARD project at the QuBit Conference in Prague.
Qubit Conference Prague 2022 is welcoming all cybersecurity professionals to come and share valuable experi…
LOCARD will be presented at this year's EEMA Annual Conference in London. The event will bring together technology experts, policymakers, and senior leaders from public, private and academic sector institutions from across Europe and beyond.
More information is available in the following LINK…
Next 28 April at 15:00 GMT, the webinar organized by Council of Europe and APWG.EU will delve on the new challenges and emerging technological tools available to cyber criminals and introduce further exacerbate existing issues related to retaining and accessing electronic evidence, admissibility of …
Our sister project FORMOBILE will organise its closing event next April 28 & 29. The event will bring a comprehensive overview of the key results of the actions conducted by 19 partners throughout these last 3 years. In this context, LOCARD will be honoured to be part of the panel on legal …
The Security Research Event (SRE) is back from the 1st to the 2nd of March!
LOCARD will be part of this year's SRE 2022 as a project aimed at supporting resilience across society and empowering Law Enforcement Agencies (LEA) to fight against cybercrime.
Amongst its main objectives, the European …
The Romanian Association for Information Security Assurance (RAISA) in cooperation with US Embassy in Bucharest is organising courses for Romanian LEA and judiciary authorities on cybercrime and electronic evidence. In this context, this training aims at offering a better understanding of the d…
LOCARD training sessions will take place next January 21, 28 and 31. The 4 sessions aim to show the platform and its most relevant functionalities developed throughout the project. A summary of the sessions is given below:
Session 1: Introduction to LOCARD (21/01/2022): In the introductory sessi…
The e-enforcement academy is a training programme to support enforcement staff working on national authorities from the Consumer Protection Cooperation (CPC) network and those responsible for the market surveillance on consumer product safety belonging to the Consumer Safety Network (CSN) and/or the…
The use of blockchain technology is expanding not only as the use of cryptocurrencies becomes more wide spread but also as other possible applications are becoming more apparent.
Blockchain is usually seen only as the domain of Cryptocurrencies, often associated with criminal actions, such as Rans…
LOCARD was presented by Pablo López-Aguilar at this year’s “lightning talks” organised by the Council of Europe under the framework of the Octopus Conference 2021. The event provided an opportunity for cybercrime experts from public and private sectors to share experience and discuss different …
This year's webinar, organised by EEMA, will look at the challenges regarding the cross-border use of digital evidence and chain of custody: https://www.isse.eu.com/
Chair: Pablo Lopez-Aguilar, Head of IT & Cybersecurity, APWG, Spain
Mike Jones, Podcast Host and Security Researcher, H…
"The non-localised nature of data along with the several disparities on regulations open a new window for cybercriminals, who see endless opportunities to committheir malicious actions". Based on the above, Pablo López-Aguilar, Director of Technology at APWG.eu, will present LOCARD at the Democracy4…
Digital evidence underpin almost all criminal investigations. However, the digital nature of the evidence implies many constraints on the collection, processing, and sharing among the different stakeholders. This talk will try to provide an overview of the challenges in the field highlighting the ne…
On the 29th of October, Cyber Security Malta and Malta Information Technology Agency (MITA) organised cyber ROOT 21, an online webinar that seeks to instil more knowledge of cyber security, its importance and relevance in the business industry and as a fora for a discussion of current cyber security…
The BIG NIGHT OF TECH was a virtual event organised as part of the tenth edition of Science in the City, a popular science event held yearly in Malta.
Dr Christian Colombo from the University of Malta delivered a talk entitled "Cybersecurity Challenges: What are researchers doing to help?", giving…
LOCARD will be presented at the 9th international workshop on APPLications in Electronics Pervading Industry, Environment and Society (APPLEPIES 2021), next September 22, 2021. Registration is free for all interested participants: https://applepies.eu/program/
Session SS2 (Short Ora…
The webinar organised under the framework of the EEMA Annual Conference 2021, will bring an interesting discussion aiming to tackle the most current challenges with regards to the handling of digital evidence among different jurisdictions.
Chair: Steve Kemsley
Speakers:
Tobias M…
This time we are going to discuss how blockchain impacts and transforms law enforcement protocols. Many agencies and governments have already realized that in the current digital world the role of blockchain has a pivotal effect and look forward to employing the technology in their operations. Secur…
On the 13th of May, the University of Malta (UM) team working on LOCARD was hosted by the Malta chapter of the Information Systems Audit and Control Association (ISACA) during a session of their educational event series (https://engage.isaca.org/maltachapter/home). The talk entitled "Investigating c…
APWG will present LOCARD as a platform aiming to manage digital evidence continuity of evidence easily, as well as a way to support cooperation and exchange of information between different jurisdictions. This will facilitate criminal investigations as well as assure evidence integrity for presentat…
Recently, the European Commission published a proposal for a new regulation – the Digital Operational Resilience Act ("DORA") – and an accompanying directive to harmonise digital operational resilience rules for financial organisations in the EU. In this respect on the 11th May 2021, the Malta Finan…
The APWG.eu webinar will examine how to assess new practices in digital investigations and propose effective approaches for processing digital evidence in preparation for court presentation. In addition, we will analyse how to facilitate the process of exchanging cross-border evidence and how crypto…
This one-day workshop is organised in the framework of the Community of European Research and Innovation in Security.
It focuses on youth and cyber-criminality and addresses the two sides of the coin i.e. youth as perpetrators and youth as victims of crime.
The active participation…
The H2020 Project MAGNETO will hold its Final Event online on March 30, 2021, from 09.00 to 12.30 (Brussels time). The Project aims to revolutionize the capacity of Law Enforcement Agencies to deal with extreme volumes and diversity of data in order to accomplish highly-efficient crime preventi…
The i-Lead Research Event organised in association with the Europol Innovation Lab aims to seek for opportunities into investigations by integrating Artificial Intelligence and decryption technologies. Therefore, a broad audience among Researchers, Academics and Businesses are invited to e…
Last March 11th 2021, our consortium partner KEMEA, presented LOCARD at the LEA workshop organised by our sister project CC-DRIVER. During the session, projects with similar objectives met together to share information and find synergies for supporting law enforcement against organised crime an…
''The procedure needed to obtain digital evidence, as well as its recognition in a court of justice, should follow standardised procedures aimed at guaranteeing the origin of the evidence and the integrity of the chain of custody.''
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What are the …
Last January 28th, Pablo López-Aguilar from APWG.eu, presented LOCARD at the webinar "threats related to non-cash payment fraud during the COVID-19 pandemic", organised by CEPOL. The webinar, restricted only for law enforcement and judicial authorities, aimed at giving an overview of the s…
The LOCARD project coordinator, Dr. Constantinos Patsakis has been invited by the European Commission to the round table “ICT Verticals and Horizontals for Blockchain Standardisation” aimed at presenting the work done and explore further involvement into activities of blockchain standardisation bodi…
The ninth edition of Science in the City 2020, was held in a virtual format on the 27th and the 28th of November. A yearly event held in Valletta, Malta, this edition centered around the theme “Engage, Empower, Enable”. This year’s attempt to deal with the pandemic has resulted in an exciting new ou…
For 2020 APWG’s members will once again come together to bridge the gaps between cybersecurity operations, research and consumer messaging with our fifteenth Symposium on Electronic Crime Research (eCrime 2020).
eCrime 2020 will look at the operational challenges and development of common resource…
Millions of attacks on computer systems and security incidents take place every day. Cybercrime is a risk for any society, weakens confidence on Information and Communication technologies and threatens international peace and stability.
In the fight against cybercrime it is crucial that we foster …
We are glad to announce that LOCARD has been invited to participate in the “infodemic” session to be held during the virtual conference “Human and societal aspects of the pandemic and beyond: domestic violence, child sexual abuse, infodemic”, organized by the Community of Users on Secure, Safe …
In their fight against cybercrime, one of the most difficult challenges for several countries is to standardise how forensic reports are presented to different stakeholders. The procedure needed to obtain digital evidence, as well as its recognition in a court of justice, should follow s…
On 18 June 2020, the Brussels Privacy Hub and the Health and Ageing Law Lab (HALL) in synergy with the Horizon 2020-funded research projects: Cyber-Trust| Advanced Cyber-Threat Intelligence, Detection, and Mitigation Platform for a Trusted Internet of Things, FASTER | First responder Advanced …
The webinar aims to provide an overview of the state of cybercrime legislation around the world, illustrated by examples of reforms currently underway.
It is deemed particularly useful for officials from national authorities (ministries, judiciary, prosecutors, law enforcement agencies, law…
Topic: Criminal Chain of Custody - Can new technology secure evidence?
What will be discussed? “With the ever-changing technology landscape, new crimes are being carried out in an ever more sophisticated manner. Traditional crimes are also being re-invented to take advantage of these new technolo…
The ECTEG General Assembly brings together European Economic Area Member States, law enforcement agencies, international bodies, academia, private industry and experts.
Funded by the European Commission and working in close cooperation with Europol-EC3 and CEPOL, both members of the advisory group…
Cybersecurity is the state or process of protecting and restoring networks, devices, and programs from any type of cyber-attack. These attacks can be designed to access or destroy sensitive data or extort money. The headlines are peppered with news of security breaches and incidents invo…
The purpose of the workshop is to bring together all our partners that we collaborate in European and national research projects.
During the workshop, we aim to create a forum for exchanging ideas and discussing research issues that will eventually contribute to extend our network and form n…
Dedicated to exchanges of views and professional meetings, the International Cybersecurity Forum (FIC) has become the leading European event on cybersecurity security and digital trust. Its originality is to mix:
A FORUM to foster reflection and exchanges among the European cybers…
iLEADS Laboratory represents a powerful team of highly qualified, inventive and enterprising people. We aim to develop new knowledge and share our expertise through solid collaborations with industry and business, the public sector and other higher education institutions. We believe that an equ…