Computer security

A second law suit has been filed with the Court of Justice in Luxembourg against the transfer of personal data between the EU and the USA, reported Reuters.

It was filed by three French privacy organisations about a month after Irish Digital Rights Ireland requested that the Privacy Shield agreement be annulled.

The Social Security Foundation (IKA) is the social security system's ball and chain, as just a couple of months before its incorporation into the new Single Social Security Entity (EFKA), its employees are warning about the levels of its revenues and payouts.

Cyber attacks pounded the underpinnings of the internet on Oct. 21, crippling Twitter, Netflix and other major websites with the help of once-dumb devices made smart with online connections.

Waves of attacks incapacitated a crucial piece of internet infrastructure, hampering or outright blocking access to popular online venues.

A contractor for the National Security Agency has been arrested on charges that he illegally removed highly classified information and stored the material in his home and car, federal prosecutors said Oct. 5.

Emirates Integrated Telecommunications Company (du) has again chosen Greek-based firm Echothrust Solutions to co-organize the "Capture The Flag" security competition, which takes place this Sunday as part of the du Cyber Security Conference 2016 in Dubai, Echothrust Solutions announced on Wednesday.

A considerable part of the preparation for the upcoming elections is focused on counteracting possible hacker attacks like the ones in 2015, which blocked the sites of several institutions, including the Central Election Commission.

When I searched on Google about hackers and cyberattacks, the amount of news that came through made me realize that while most of us in Turkey may be on vacation, hackers certainly are not. Actually, holiday season is one of their favorite times, as you use your credit card in exotic places where you would not usually use it.

Greece's central bank became the target of a cyber attack by activist hacking group Anonymous on Tuesday which disrupted service of its web site, a Bank of Greece official said on Wednesday.

Hackers claiming to have ties with the Islamic State (IS) have targeted 3,600 New Yorkers, after they uploaded their personal details online. The hackers are calling on IS fighters to kill the people on the list. The FBI and police are in contact with the people on the ‘hit list’, according to international media.

"This is by far the most important law that will affect the biggest number of people in Turkey that the government has endorsed in the last couple of years," said Hakk? Can Y?ld?z, from Esin Attorney Partnership.