Security

A 30-year-old Bulgarian national was detained on Thursday in connection with murder of a 46-year-old Greek-Australian businessman Yiannis Makris in the southern Athenian suburb of Voula on October 31, 2018.
Police believe he is the man who shot Makris.

A prominent conservative MP and former minister, Yiannis Vroutsis, on Tuesday called on the Labor Ministry to respond to allegations that its online system for Single Social Security Fund (EFKA) pension applications was tampered with and thousands of applications removed.

The Business Statistics Information System is working again, the National Statistical Institute announced today, as access to it was again limited today.

The annual activity reports of the companies are submitted in the system. It accounts for over 600,000 individuals and legal entities.

In 2018, we expanded our video surveillance system with over 320 cameras and now it includes more than 3,000 cameras, Mayor of Sofia Yordanka Fandakova said at the opening of the Sofia Municipal Council's session, presenting a report on the activities of Security and Emergency Relief and Prevention directorates for 2018, Focus News Agency reports.

Counter-terrorism officers in central England are investigating attacks on five mosques in which windows were apparently shattered by a sledgehammer.

Parliament adopted a new law on the protection of trade secrets at second reading. The law introduces requirements of a European directive on the protection of undisclosed know-how and commercial information (trade secrets) against their illegal acquisition, use and disclosure.

The Christchurch terrorist certainly had contacts with Bulgarians while he was in our country. This was stated in an interview with Darik by the writer and former counter-intelligence officer Pavlin Pavlov, according to whom the Australian should have drawn the attention of our services.

The cyber-attack was committed by another country, reported NOVA TV. 

A massive hacker attack has been committed against the major political parties in Australia. 

However, there is no evidence that hackers have intervened in the elections which are going to be held in a month. The attack was directed against parliamentary servers.

Each time we face a new security challenge, a defense or security contractor is waiting in the wings to sell us a solution. In the case of hybrid threats, there is no one-size-fits-all solution nor new system we can just buy to mitigate them.

A group of between four to six robbers drove a car into a bank branch in the town of Megara, west Attica, early Thursday morning and removed an automatic teller machine (ATM), Greek broadcaster Skai reported.

The suspects, who had their faces covered, loaded the ATM on a second vehicle they had parked outside and fled.