Computer security

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. 

Security has always been a major concern for humanity. After 9/11 we began to talk about it a lot more. Nowadays each and every one of us feels the need to be protected both in the real world and the digital one. It seems that the need for security will never cease. When there is a need there are solutions. There are many companies which claim that they can guarantee your safety.

Once hackers managed to breach the security system of the data of extramarital dating site ‘Ashley Madison’, accessing personal details of 37 million users, married men and women around the world are having sleepless nights. On the surface it might seem a ‘spicy’ and light story, but there is a darker side with more tragic consequences, as the suicide of police officer Michael Gorhum proves.

Hackers based in Russia penetrated the email network of the Pentagon's Joint Chiefs of Staff, leading to a two-week shutdown of the system, NBC News reported on August 6.

The Turkish police paid 440,000 euros to an Italian hacker group between August 2011 and February 2015 to target certain individuals with specially designed spyware, according to leaked documents seen by daily Hürriyet.

The state of personal data protection in the field of electronic communications, in particular in internet services, "is very worrying."

This assessment was made on Thursday by Commissioner for Information of Public Importance and Personal Data Protection Rodoljub Sabic.

Suspected Chinese hackers who infiltrated the US government's human resources records have sensitive information on all federal employees, an American union said June 11.

Director of the CERT-RO National Computer Security Incident Response Team Augustin Jianu believes Romania is faring well in terms of human resources for the protection of personal data stored with information systems, but it is facing a deficit of specific legislation.

An Israeli deputy minister dismissed as baseless on June 11 reports Israel may have had a connection to a computer virus that a security company said was used to hack into venues linked to international talks on Iran's nuclear programme.