Computer law

U.N. member states on Thursday approved a treaty targeting cybercrime, the body's first such text, despite fierce opposition from human rights activists who have warned of potential surveillance dangers.

The U.N. General Assembly will turn its attention to artificial intelligence on Thursday, weighing a resolution that lays out the potentially transformational technology's pros and cons while calling for the establishment of international standards.

The hacker was bent on revenge after being targeted by a North Korean cyberattack

This was announced on the blog of a cybercrime gang known as REvil, Reuters reported.
Allan Liska, from the cybersecurity company Recorded Future, confirmed that the message is authentic, as well as that the cyber gang has been using that blog since last year.

The Special Telecommunications Service (STS) successfully completed today together with the EU technical working group the gateway on-boarding test for the generation of EU COVID-19 digital certificates, STS announced.

Bulgarian writer Georgi Bardarov's novel Absolvo Te, which means "forgiveness of all sins", is among the winners of the European Union Prize for Literature (EUPL). The novel was published in 2020. It intertwines the threads of several conflicts that still smoulder today.

The Senate on Tuesday passed a bill designed to supplement the Law on electronic signatures by a new provision that makes the Special Telecommunications Service (STS) a provider of e-signature services for public administrations in Romania. The bill was adopted by a unanimous vote.

The film industry has never been more successful than it was in 2018, when it earned $96.8 billion including over $40 billion in cinema ticket sales, according to figures published March 21 by the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA).

The Ministry of Tourism is the first state administration to offer all of its services online. They will be accessible round-the-clock and with no breaks. The e-access will be free of charge in the first year, reports BNT. 

OpenFest is the biggest Bulgarian conference dedicated to the free culture, free knowledge sharing, free and open source software. It is the most anticipated annual gathering of fans, creators and supporters of the open source and free art in Bulgaria.