Cyberspace

After several pro-government portals and state institutions' websites went down during the October elections, Montenegro plans to tighten cyber security to protect the government's data and records.

The government in Podgorica plans to introduce mandatory training for all public employees and to establish a joint team to deal with such incidents.

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BELGRADE - If a referendum on the need to bring back the death penalty was held today a record 58 percent of Serbs would say "yes," according to the latest poll conducted by the public advocacy group Serbia Against the Death Penalty.

A senior executive of the Doğan Group, the leading independent media group in Turkey, offered his resignation today amid allegations in social media that he repeatedly maintained correspondence with Berat Albayrak, the Minister of Energy and the son-in-law of President Tayyip Erdoğan, and the CEO of the rival Sabah newspaper, Serhat Albayrak, who is also the brother of the Energy Minister.

According to relationship experts, how successful a woman’s dating profile is depends on the photos she posts.

Research for the launch of the HTC Desire 530 found men hailed taking selfies as a turn on when it came to impressing online.

So, if you are a woman looking for love, then you should definitely have these four photos of you on your profile to boost dating success.

Greece's central bank became the target of a cyber attack by activist hacking group Anonymous on Tuesday which disrupted service of its web site, a Bank of Greece official said on Wednesday.

The online hacktivist Anonymous relaunched operation OpIcarus targeting banking sector in Europe and the United States.

The Bank of Greece had their website under a series of distributed denial-of-service attacks (DDoS) forcing the servers to remain offline for more than 6 hours.

Hackers claiming to have ties with the Islamic State (IS) have targeted 3,600 New Yorkers, after they uploaded their personal details online. The hackers are calling on IS fighters to kill the people on the list. The FBI and police are in contact with the people on the ‘hit list’, according to international media.

Chinese authorities on Feb. 28 shut down the social media accounts of a tycoon nicknamed "The Cannon" after he criticised the ruling Communist Party's tightening grip on the media.

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.