Computer network security

The government approved the project for updating the National Security Strategy of Bulgaria and proposed to the National Assembly to accept it. The strategy has not yet been published, reports mediapool. 

Norwegian police said on Wednesday they had lowered the national threat assessment, but still regarded an attack by militants as a possibility, reported Reuters. 

The risk level was lowered to "possible" from "likely", reversing an April decision to raise the threat assessment following an Oslo bomb scare and an attack in neighboring Sweden, where four people were killed.

The European Court of Human Rights on Thursday ordered the Greek state to pay 50,000 euros in damages and expenses to the family of Costas Tsalikidis, a mobile telephone company worker who was found hanged in his home in March 2005, shortly before a major wiretapping scandal involving his firm became public.

Turkey is preparing to run a national cyber-security drill in order to test possible vulnerabilities in its state institutions, Communications Minister Ahmet Aslan said on Nov. 16.

We must be open as to why 150 citizens of FYROM joined ISIS in Syria and Iraq. This was declared by the US ambassador to Skopje, Jess Baily, in front of foreign security experts, who, in the next three days, will discuss issues of terrorism and violent extremism.

Baily said that the prevention of terrorism requires the contribution of everyone.

The Movement of Free Citizens says the appointment of Nebojsa Stefanovic as coordinator of Serbia's security services poses "a danger to national security."

Yesterday transport companies, media and government agencies in Ukraine, Russia, Turkey, Bulgaria and other countries were subjected  to cyberattacks with the computer virus "Badrabbit," said Rosbalt, quoted by DARIK.
 

The Council of Ministers included the fence and obstacle facilities on the Bulgarian-Turkish border in the list of strategic sites of national security significance, BGNES reported.

Military parts for cyber defence will be created in Poland, Polish Defense Minister Antony Macarevic said at a cyber security conference in the capital, Warsaw, quoted by TASS.

"We made a decision to create cyber forces, as well as to expand the activities of the National Center for Cryptology," he said.

The Parliament approved the annual report on Bulgaria's national security for 2016, according to bTV.

The report concludes that general criminality decreased, while the effectiveness of investigations increased.