European Governments: 3,000 Illegal Tracking Sites and 99% Poorly Encrypted Email

🔒 The State of Cybersecurity in European Governments Is Alarming
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SecurityBaseline.eu monitors 67,000 governments across 31 countries. The results are concerning. 🚨

📊 The Most Serious Findings
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After analyzing over 200,000 government domains:

🍪 3,000 sites use tracking cookies illegally
🗄️ 1,000+ phpMyAdmin panels are publicly reachable on the internet
📧 99% of government email uses weak or incorrect encryption

🗺️ What is SecurityBaseline.eu?
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An initiative by the Internet Cleanup Foundation that monitors basic security for European governments with daily-updated maps for each country and security metric.

🌍 Coverage
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31 countries (all EU member states + EEA)
67,000 government organizations
21 security metrics
1,827 maps updated every night

💡 Explanation in a nutshell
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SecurityBaseline.eu is a transparency tool that monitors basic cybersecurity metrics across European governments: illegal tracking cookies, exposed database admin interfaces, email encryption, and more. Its goal is to make web security transparent so governments can protect their citizens and improve their security posture.