Cyberwarfare

STS's Opris: Cyberattacks used for political aims; an attack occurred during the presidential campaign

The tools of cyberwar can be used for political aims as well, head of the Special Telecommunications Service (STS) Marcel Opris said Thursday, adding that such an episode occurred during the 2014 presidential campaign.

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Syrian hacker group says it hacked Turkey two years ago

A Syrian hacker group suspected to be linked with the al-Assad regime says it broke into e-mails of Turkish goverment agencies two years ago in retaliation for Turkey's downing of a Syrian helicopter Hackers from the Syrian Electronic Army (SEA) have said they hacked scores of email accounts, including ones belonging to the Turkish government, but waited for the right time to reveal them

Zgonea: Prepaid SIM cards law, cybersecurity law - urgent for national security structures

The Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies, Valeriu Zgonea on Thursday said that the prepaid SIM cards law and the cybersecurity law are important and urgent for national security structures.

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SRI: Cyber security law, essential for making national cyber security system operational

The cyber security law is essential to the objective of making the national cyber security system operational and facilitating the adoption of a complex of measures correlated with the accelerated dynamic of cyber-attacks, according to a press release of the Romanian Intelligence Service (SRI) remitted to AGERPRES on Sunday.

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Intelligence Service: Romanian sites face rise in cyber-attacks launching radical Islamist, anti-Israel, pro-Palestine messages

Beginning with mid-December 2014, the sites of several Romanian higher education and public administration institutions have been the target of cyber-attacks, the Romanian Intelligence Service (SRI) announced on Friday, mentioning that the hacked sites were infiltrated to carry radical Islamist, anti-Israeli and pro-Palestinian messages, with the site of the Romanian Patriarchate being among th

South Korea Concerned Over North Korea's Cyber Army, Nuclear Weapons

The Defence Ministry of South Korea expressed its concern over the growing cyber army of North Korea and the progress its rival has made in nuclear weapons.

According to the claims, North Korea has a 6000-strong cyber army dedicated to disrupting South Korea's government and military, the Guardian reports.

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