{"id":271177,"date":"2026-06-12T09:18:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T13:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/12\/cybersecurity-needs-secure-software-pubaffairs-bruxelles\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T09:25:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T13:25:14","slug":"cybersecurity-needs-secure-software-pubaffairs-bruxelles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/12\/cybersecurity-needs-secure-software-pubaffairs-bruxelles\/","title":{"rendered":"Cybersecurity needs secure software &#8211; PubAffairs Bruxelles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pubaffairsbruxelles.eu\/opinion-analysis\/cybersecurity-needs-secure-software\/\">Cybersecurity needs secure software &#8211; PubAffairs Bruxelles<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pubaffairsbruxelles.eu\/opinion-analysis\/cybersecurity-needs-secure-software\/\">https:\/\/www.pubaffairsbruxelles.eu\/opinion-analysis\/cybersecurity-needs-secure-software\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-12 09:18:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.pubaffairsbruxelles.eu\">www.pubaffairsbruxelles.eu<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Cybersecurity incidents cause harm \u2013 for example, when adversarial states paralyse critical infrastructure or steal sensitive data. Many such incidents are only possible because many software products have known vulnerabilities. Software vendors could fix these, but they have little incentive to invest in the security of their products. To date, cybersecurity policy and protective measures have primarily addressed the symptoms of insecure software, rather than the root cause, namely software insecu\u00adrity itself. This calls for regulation, specifically in the areas of product safety law, pro\u00adduct liability regulations, and cybersecurity requirements for providers of software services. The European Union (EU) has already adopted initial rules, but regulatory gaps remain, and it is unclear whether member states will strictly enforce them. The German government should therefore now advocate for comprehensive European product liability regulations for software, and the Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) should impose fines on companies that violate existing rules.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Cybersecurity incidents cause significant damage. In 2025, cyberattacks cost German companies more than 200 billion euros, equivalent to 4.5 per cent of gross domestic product. Particularly serious are attacks on critical infrastructure: In December 2025, a Russian cyber operation came close to para\u00adlysing parts of Poland\u2019s energy infrastructure. In the spring of 2026, it became known that Iranian actors were preparing attacks on the water sector and other criti\u00adcal infrastructure in the United States, after the People\u2019s Republic of China had carried out similar operations against US targets in 2024. Furthermore, Chinese and Russian actors have used cyber operations to spy on and sabotage Western armed forces and their suppliers and service providers, or to restrict the availability of services. Russian intelligence services also regularly use cyber operations to obtain sensitive&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pubaffairsbruxelles.eu\/opinion-analysis\/cybersecurity-needs-secure-software\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cybersecurity needs secure software &#8211; PubAffairs Bruxelles https:\/\/www.pubaffairsbruxelles.eu\/opinion-analysis\/cybersecurity-needs-secure-software\/ Publish Date: 2026-06-12 09:18:00 Source Domain: www.pubaffairsbruxelles.eu&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":271178,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.pubaffairsbruxelles.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/16251.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[57],"class_list":["post-271177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cybersecurity","tag-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271177"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=271177"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":271179,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271177\/revisions\/271179"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/271178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}