Computer security

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Online reservation fraud has cost the tourism industry at least $2 million in nine months, said a cyber security expert.

"People turned to online shopping after the pandemic broke out, buying goods on e-commerce platforms. The technically e-commerce platforms were not fully ready for this and some of them fell victim to data theft," said Serhat Özdemir.

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Bulgarian National Bank (BNB) and Bulgarian Posts (BGPost) to be included in the list of strategic sites to be inspected by State Agency for National Security (SANS). This will be proposed by the Council of Ministers after the cyber attack, which blocked the work of the post offices, announced the Minister of Electronic Government Bozhidar Bozhanov.

Apple, Google and Microsoft said Thursday they are looking to get rid of passwords and replace them with a more secure way to access accounts or devices.

The U.S. tech titans jointly announced support for a common standard that will let people sign in by unlocking their mobile phones, say, with fingerprint or face recognition.

Romania's government announced a series of cyberattacks on websites of key public institutions, including the government and the Defence Ministry, on Friday.

North Korean hackers have stolen £450 million in the world's largest cryptocurrency theft. The hacker group known as Lazarus is behind the 2017 WannaCry Ransomeware attack, which affected 200,000 computers worldwide, including those of the National Health Service.

Hellenic Post, ELTA, announced on Wednesday that it had restarted the system that enables objects and items to be sent abroad after a cyber-attack brought the computers down.

Days before, financial services and the sending of simple correspondence were also re-activated. The suspension of these operations, among other things, has caused delays in the payment of pensions.

Ljubljana – The Slovenian Computer Emergency Response Team (SI-CERT) has warned about online fraudsters who persuade users to make fake investments in various forms of property as this kind of fraud is in the rise. This year the police dealt with more than 115 such reports with total damage estimated at over EUR 5 million, SI-CERT has said.

Fake emails purportedly from the US Department of Homeland Security warning of cyberattacks were sent out on Nov. 13 from a secure FBI computer server, computer security experts said.