Security hacker

BELGRADE - A computer hacker who helped the Islamic State by providing names of more than 1,000 U.S. government and military workers as potential targets has been sentenced to 20 years in prison.

BELGRADE - After revealing that the Democratic National Committee actively conspired against presidential candidate Bernie Sanders, the hacker known as Guccifer 2.0 has now exposed the organization's corrupt method of appointing vital US government positions.

When I searched on Google about hackers and cyberattacks, the amount of news that came through made me realize that while most of us in Turkey may be on vacation, hackers certainly are not. Actually, holiday season is one of their favorite times, as you use your credit card in exotic places where you would not usually use it.

Hackers have posted a database online that seems to contain the personal information of nearly 50 million Turkish citizens in what is one of the largest public leaks of its kind.

Ardit Ferizi was detained in Malaysia last October for allegedly hacking into a computer database and passing information about US security staff to Islamic State radicals.

Ferizi was extradited from Malaysia and appeared on Wednesday in a US court in Virginia facing terrorism charges. If found guilty, Ferizi could face 35 years in prison.

The innovative provider of cloud services pCloud was declared as the most successful start-up company in Bulgaria in 2015.

The company occupied the top place in the "Top 10 start-ups in Bulgaria in 2015" ranking of Capital weekly.

You wouldn’t know that Polyxeni (Xenia) Mountrouidou – known to her students as Dr. X – was a hacking expert just by looking at her. Yet lurking beneath the spectacles, golden locks and stench of academia lies a hacker extraordinaire.

Three banks were on alert all weekend after hackers made attempts to intrude into their security systems. The National Intelligence Service, Cyber Crime Squad of Greece and Bank of Greece worked with bank officials all weekend in an attempt to stall off the hackers, who are believed to be coming from Russian say sources.

The Turkish Electricity Transmission Company (TE?A?) has opened a tender to renew its computer network with the aim of preventing any reoccurrence of the national blackout which occurred on March 30. 

Once hackers managed to breach the security system of the data of extramarital dating site ‘Ashley Madison’, accessing personal details of 37 million users, married men and women around the world are having sleepless nights. On the surface it might seem a ‘spicy’ and light story, but there is a darker side with more tragic consequences, as the suicide of police officer Michael Gorhum proves.