Security

Catalonia police said on Wednesday that railway security had seen with a scanner a possible explosive device inside a suitcase and were making further checks, Reuters reported.

Two controversial phone tapping bills are heading to the Cypriot House next month, giving law enforcement officials better tools to carry out covert surveillance but also providing more checks and balances.

AFP - The security breach revealed on September 28 by Facebook affected tens of millions of accounts at the social network, which boasts more than 2.2 billion monthly users.

On Wednesday, the Irish data authority said it was opening up a formal investigation into whether the world's biggest social network complied with tough new EU privacy regulations.

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Eleven surveillance stations have been set up on the coasts of the Aegean Sea as part of the first phase of the Coast Surveillance Radar System (SGRS) Project which aims to halt illegal activities in the sea.

Unidentified youths used homemade firebombs to target police stationed outside the Turkish Consulate in Thessaloniki early on Sunday.

The masked assailants lobbed Molotov cocktails at the police unit, prompting officers to respond with stun grenades and tear gas.

They also set fire to three garbage dumpsters before fleeing.

Serbia's government plans to strengthen the country's cyber-security and the capacity of the police and military to prevent hacking attacks amid a marked rise last year in hi-tech crime.

According to the Cybercrime Strategy, Serbia will establish several units within the police, military and customs to fight online crimes.   

Bulgarian institutions continue to use unprotected websites. Some of them offer electronic reports and services, making them vulnerable.

According to statistics for unprotected sites in 2014 were half of all, and now without certificate are only 10%. Unfortunately, a number of Bulgarian institutions fall into this column.

Greek police averted a truck robbery early on Tuesday morning in Metamorfosi, a suburb in northern Athens, but failed to catch the perpetrators.

Four suspects attempted to break into a truck parked on Kapodistriou street at 3.05 a.m., but were spotted by policemen in a patrol car who tried to stop them.

An attack on the Iranian Embassy in Athens by members of the anarchist group Rouvikonas in the early hours of Monday led on Tuesday to the removal of the director of the Psychico police precinct.

The director was to be transferred to another division as the embassy was one of the buildings that supposedly fell under his supervision.

An explosion at a bank ATM outside a supermarket in Pyrgos, southern Greece, in the early hours of Thursday, caused damage to the façade of the store but no injuries.

According to the police, the unknown perpetrators channeled flammable gas into the machine before igniting it to cause the explosion.

They fled with an undetermined sum of cash from the ATM.