Denial-of-service attacks
Greece Orders Probe Into Massive School Exam Cyber-Attack
Greece's Supreme Court Public Prosecutor Isidoros Dogiakos ordered an investigation into a cyber-attack on the data bank providing the school exam questions, with the assistance of the Police's Cyber Crime Unit.
Digital backdoor to exams platform
The Education Ministry has announced that it has fallen victim to the largest cyberattack in the country's history, with distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks being aimed at its centralized high school examination platform.
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Top prosecutor orders probe into cyberattack targeting exam platform
Greece's top prosecutor ordered an investigation into two cyber attacks targeting a state-run exam platform on Tuesday morning, which has disrupted the end-of-year exams taking place in high schools around the country.
Bulgaria: Data of Employees in the Administration was on the "Dark Web”
Account data of administration employees was on the "dark web". And many of the administrations still provide contact emails, outside of the state ones. This is recorded in the annual report of the Ministry of e-Government on the state of information resources for last year. The document was accepted by the caretaker cabinet a week ago.
Bosnia Lacks Capacity to Fight Millions of Cyber Attacks Monthly, Report Warns
The first report on cyber threats in Bosnia and Herzegovina has said the country is facing millions of cyber attacks each month, while lacking the strategies, legislation and capacity to protect its citizens, institutions and companies.
Montenegro Readies for Cyber Attacks in Presidential Elections
A polling station in Montenegrin capital Podgorica on the parliamentary elections on August 2020.Photo: BIRN/Samir Kajosevic
CIRT is a unit within the Ministry of Public Administration engaged in the handling of information security incidents within the IP address space.
Cyber Attacks Hit Romanian Government Websites
Romania's government announced a series of cyberattacks on websites of key public institutions, including the government and the Defence Ministry, on Friday.
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Warning of outdated systems in the wake of cyber attacks
In the wake of a barrage of attacks by hackers against Greek state websites, government sources have indicated that some of the systems being used for the protection against cyber attacks are outdated, underlining the need for more robust security.
Fresh attacks on government websites raise concerns
Concerns were raised on Friday after Greek government websites were targeted by hackers on Thursday for a second time within just a few days, fueling calls for stronger cyber protection.
Despite speculation that the hackers could have been from Turkey, a government official said yesterday that it is very difficult to ascertain who the culprits were.
Government websites down in possible new hacking case
Several Greek government websites including that of the Foreign Ministry and the Prime Minister were down late on Thursday in a suspected hacking attack.
The websites of the tourism, economy, environment and energy ministries were also non-operational.