Cybercrime

"This is by far the most important law that will affect the biggest number of people in Turkey that the government has endorsed in the last couple of years," said Hakk? Can Y?ld?z, from Esin Attorney Partnership.

Advances in information technologies and the increase in the use of the Internet have drastically changed human life. The biggest transformation has in fact occurred in cyberspace and a substantial amount of information has already been moved to online storage. These changes undoubtedly create various opportunities as well as challenges, not only for individuals but for states as well.

I don't know how many people have got an e-password and used it on the www.turkiye.gov.tr website. Those who did will understand better what I'm talking about.

A total of 737 cyber incidents were registered at the websites of central and local government authorities and other institutions in Bulgaria last year, according to the National Computer Security Incidents Response Team (CERT Bulgaria).

The volume of cybernetic criminal activity in Serbia in 2015 increased by some 50 per cent compared to 2014, judicial specialists in high-tech crime said.

Serbia's top "cyber cop", Vladimir Urosevic, said that despite a growing number of arrests, nine out of ten cyber crime acts go unpunished, mostly because of the anonymity of the perpetrators. 

Turkey has ranked ninth on the list of countries most targeted by cyberattacks, according to a report by Turkish defense company STM. 

Turkey is prepared for any kind of cyberattack, according to the country's technology minister, who said "all necessary measures are being taken" over the latest cyberattack which targeted hundreds of thousands of Turkish websites.

"From a military standpoint, it would be fair to say that a high-profile cyber weapon is the combination of a nuclear weapon, a biological weapon, a time bomb, an anti-radiation missile, special forces and a medieval sword."

Recent cyberattacks have revealed Turkey's vulnerabilities, showing that the state is not prepared for approaching cyber wars, says an expert on cyber security. Turkey needs to build a cyber security culture and it needs a huge mentality change, according to Salih B?çakc?

You wouldn’t know that Polyxeni (Xenia) Mountrouidou – known to her students as Dr. X – was a hacking expert just by looking at her. Yet lurking beneath the spectacles, golden locks and stench of academia lies a hacker extraordinaire.