Technology

Cyber crime police on Cyprus were investigating a case on Friday involving a malicious text message announcing that there would be a new haircut on bank deposits in the island-nation.

The ostensible author of the text, Dimitra Kalogirou, chief of the Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission, denied sending the SMS and alerted authorities.

Apple is ramping up iCloud defenses in the aftermath of hackers swiping nude photos of celebrities from the online digital vault, the Wall Street Journal reported late Sept. 4.
      

Greek scientist Dimitris Papanastasiou has been awarded the 2014 Curt Brunnee Award for his outstanding contribution to mass spectrometry – a process for elucidating the chemical structures of molecules.

Papanastasiou, who is co-founder of the Fasmatech company, received the award at a special ceremony during the 20th International Mass Spectrometry Conference in Geneva on Wednesday.

The Serbian parliament ratified on Thursday an agreement with the EU on Serbia's participation in the programme Horizon 2020, which is a framework programme for research and innovation covering the period between 2014 and 2020 and seeks to improve scientific research.

Questions have been raised over the safety regulations regarding trucks following a Sept. 3 accident in which a truck hit an overpass in Istanbul, killing one person.

Although is a defined standard for the operation of dump trucks, according to the Standards Institute (TSE), primary bodies that check the vehicles before they hit the road fail to follow these regulations. 

Fifty-five Greenpeace activists from some 20 countries go on trial in France on Sept. 4 for an audacious break-in at the country's oldest nuclear power plant to highlight weaknesses at atomic installations.        

Greece's unemployment rate will remain around 27 percent through to the end of 2015, according to OECD estimates made public on Wednesday.

Turkey has begun hosting the ninth annual meeting of the Internet Governance Forum, a United Nations-mandated organization, despite a number of recent controversies regarding the country's Internet freedom record.

Speaking at the event Sept. 2, Minister of Transport, Maritime and Communication Lütfi Elvan focused mainly on the issues of “cybercrimes.”

BELGRADE - Serbia could make a EUR 100 million profit from the digital dividend after it switches to digital television broadcasting mid next year, State Secretary at the Ministry of Trade, Tourism and Telecommunications Tatjana Matic said Tuesday.

The FBI and Apple were urgently investigating Sept. 1 after an apparent massive hack of a cloud data service unleashed a torrent of intimate pictures of dozens of celebrities across the Internet.

Anonymous posters to online message boards boasted of having nude images of scores of female stars including Oscar-winner Jennifer Lawrence and top model Kate Upton.