Computer security

A minister has blamed the Turkish university managing DNS serverd over recent cyberattacks that targeted websites with the extension ".tr," saying insufficient measures had been taken.

Transportation Minister Binali Y?ld?r?m said the Middle East Technical University (ODTÜ) should have taken more measures over the attacks, while highlighting the danger of cyberwar.

Several Turkish websites have been under cyberattack for four days, with Russian hackers claimed to be prime suspects behind the attack, daily Hürriyet has reported.

The Bulgarian government authorised on Wednesday Deputy Prime Minister and Interior Minister Rumyana Bachvarova to conclude a contract with Microsoft for participation in the Government Security Programme.

The State Agency for National Security (DANS) was selected as main contact point for the programme, the press service of the government informs.

A double cyber attack on Greek banks has been taking place with precision over four days. A group of hackers has launched therats against the e-banking systems of three Greek banks seeking a ransom in bitcoin. Meanwhile, there are leaks of Greek debit and credit card data that  have been used for transactions with the United States in recent days.

According to estimates of security services Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic is the person most in danger, and the army is "absolutely ready to protect him."

Three banks were on alert all weekend after hackers made attempts to intrude into their security systems. The National Intelligence Service, Cyber Crime Squad of Greece and Bank of Greece worked with bank officials all weekend in an attempt to stall off the hackers, who are believed to be coming from Russian say sources.

The websites of the State Agency for National Security (DANS), the transport and information technologies ministry, and ballot-counting company Information Service have stopped responding.

DANS is the country's domestic security and counter-intelligence agency.

Facebook has announced that it will notify users that have been targeted by an attacker suspected of spying on them. The company’s chief security officer, Alex Stamos, explains that the warning is necessary because government-sponsored attacks are “more advanced and dangerous than others”.

The Malaysian authorities arrested Ferizi on Thursday on a US arrest warrant alleging that he hacked into a US company's computer system, took the personal details of more than 1,300 US military and government staff and passed them on to an Islamic State militant.

The Turkish Electricity Transmission Company (TE?A?) has opened a tender to renew its computer network with the aim of preventing any reoccurrence of the national blackout which occurred on March 30.