Security

One man was detained in a preliminary arrest in France on suspicion of planning a September 11-style plane hijacking and attack. This was announced by French Interior Minister Christophe Castaner, quoted by the Associated Press.

Outgoing Prime Minister Vioica Dancila voiced her hope on Wednesday for the new Government to carry forward the projects destined to saving people, adding that, during her mandate, a series of measures have been taken, including the improvement of the 112 national emergency response system.

Romania continues to make efforts to be on the map of European cybernetics, and the European Cyber Security Challenge 2019 taking place in Bucharest these days proves that it has very well trained young people who are passionate about cyber security, Minister of Communications and Information Society Alexandru Petrescu told AGERPRES on Wednesday.

The hosting, by Romania, of the 5th edition of the European Cyber Security Challenge (ECSC) demonstrates the fact that everyone is preoccupied with education in the realm of computer security, said, on Wednesday, for AGERPRES, Catalin Arama, general director of the Romanian National Computer Security Incident Response Team (CERT-RO).

Collaboration between the state, the private environment and the educational area is very important, which is why we thought, with the help of the cybersecurity field, of a working document to include the most important ideas meant to ensure that the human resource is ready and motivated to stay in Romania, Iulian Alecu, the deputy general director of the National Response Centre for Cyber Secu

A tender for the supply of 1000 new CCTV cameras and information analysis has been announced, Sofia Municipality announced.

They are for the monitoring of kindergartens, schools, hospitals, high-risk areas. The contract is worth BGN 6 million excluding VAT.

After being established to replace the old, discredited secret police, the new National Security Agency, ANB, is facing its first major public test over its staff vetting process.

Security is a current priority of the institutions, local communities and citizens and we need to develop a culture of security in order to respond, first of all, to such unconventional aggressions as cyber media, but also to the economic ones, Speaker of the Deputies' Chamber Marcel Ciolacu stated on Thursday. "We have a major deficit in terms of security culture in Romania.

The German economy will be able to counteract a possible economic crisis, Finance Minister Olaf Scholz said today in an interview with the public broadcaster ARD, quoted by Reuters.

The minister, however, added that he did not expect a crisis as severe as the one that had occurred in 2008-2009.

The toppling of surveillance towers provides a disturbing snapshot of the possible future of anti-government demonstrations, as states enlist the growing power of human identification technologies to track citizens and their behaviour.