Internet

Sofia Mayor: There is Still Much to be Done About the Safety of Children on the Internet

,,There is still much to be done about the safety of children on the Internet.'' This is what the mayor of Sofia Yordanka Fandakova said during the international conference "Building a cyber-resistant society, what can we do more about the safety of children and young people on the Internet?".
The event was organized by the Sofia Security Forum.

Bulgaria and Slovenia are the Last in Online Trade in the EU

In 2017, one out of five businesses across the EU sells via computer networks such as the Internet or other forms of electronic data interchange. These e-sales amount to 17% of the total turnover. Within the framework of electronic sales, 7% of the total turnover comes from Internet sales, Eurostat writes.

Study points to online dangers, complacency

Almost half (43 percent) of parents in Greece do not limit their children's internet use, according to the results of a study conducted by the Greek Safer Internet Center in November and December last year.

The survey was carried out on a sample of 14,000 children aged between 10 and 17 from 400 schools in Athens, Thessaloniki, Crete, Patra and Larissa.

Bulgaria at the Bottom of EU Internet Usage Ranking

 

The Bulgarians are among the EU citizens who use the options of Internet the least, data of Eurostat shows, quoted by BNR.

Bulgaria ranks last in the EU in terms of Internet use. In 2018 only 65% of the Bulgarian citizens used Internet on a regular basis, whereas 85% of the EU citizens used Internet on a daily basis on average.

Appeals court upholds charges against former defense ministry official

An Athens Court of Appeals has found former general secretary for procurements Yiannis Sbokos guilty of taking bribes in connection with the purchase of the TOR-M1 short-range missile defense system.

The court also upheld charges against Petros Christodoulides, a broker, and businessman Giorgos Kamaris.

Bulgarian Women are Last in Europe in Terms of Participation and Skills in the Digital Sector

Bulgaria is one of the four countries where women have more fundamental digital skills than men and one of the three in which the gap between men and women working in the field of communication technologies is the smallest. The women working in it are 30.2% - twice as high as the EU average.

Bulgaria's General Directorate for Combatting Organized Crime Warns People to be Careful During the Black Friday

By statistics of the Cyber Crime Specialty Department at Bulgaria's General Directorate for Combatting Organized Crime (GDBOP), the number of fake sites increases more than 10 times before major holidays, as are the upcoming ones.

False web pages are built in several languages, both for greater credibility and for widening the scope of the criminal activity.

"I am not optimistic"

Rushkoff's first book, Cyberia, dealt with the early psychedelic roots of digital technology. He was thinking about the digital society, stressing that the internet will play a leading role. Publishers back in 1993 disagreed and refused to publish the book, saying that the internet was doomed to die.

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