National security

A 49-year-old woman was arrested in Thessaloniki on Saturday after she attempted to snatch a bag from a company employee in the city center while posing as a police officer.

Two police officers, aged 39 and 43, were suspended over the weekend after allegedly asking two of their colleagues to refrain from filing reports against two prostitutes, both foreign nationals, who were arrested following a police operation in central Athens.

China and "probably one or two" other countries have the ability to invade and possibly shut down computer systems of U.S. power utilities, aviation networks and financial companies, Admiral Mike Rogers, the director of the U.S. National Security Agency, said on Thursday.
  

Turkey’s intelligence agency, the police and the gendarmerie are to get exclusive authority on the personal data of citizens, according to a new draft law that is likely to stir further debate about “profiling” by the government.

Romania has extraordinary local energy resources and that is why it is very important that it should no longer remain merely a transit country in the Black Sea region, but it should also become an energy producer, the Energy Department director general Elena Popescu told an international specialised conference on Thursday.

A massive security operation is being mounted in central Athens for the 41st anniversary of the 1973 bloody student uprising against the military dictatorship.

Police on Crete were seeking to determine on Wednesday the exact cause of death of a man aged around 60 whose charred remains were found in his car near the coastal port of Kissamos in the island’s northwest late on Tuesday.

Police and a local coroner both ruled out foul play in connection with the death of the man whose body was found hanging out of the driver’s door of the vehicle.

Two police officers have been suspended as part of an investigation launched after footage was revealed showing an armored police vehicle pushing two cars into flames during an intervention into protests against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in the eastern province of Van.
 

Security has become the most used and abused word of our time. Both physical and virtual security matters a lot to individuals, SME’s and corporations.

The mothers of people who have disappeared at the hands of the state in recent decades, known as the “Saturday Mothers,” will meet for the 500th time today since their first gathering in the mid-1990s. The landmark meeting comes amid calls for solidarity from the Scholars for Peace initiative.