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New EU-wide legislation on cybersecurity will increase critical infrastructures in Cyprus to 700 from the current 70, Communications Commissioner George Michaelides said on Friday. Within...
Interests are behind reactions to changes promoted by the government, justice minister says
Resistance to reforms and changes promoted comes from the effort to protect specific interests but the government will not succumb to such pressures, Justice Minister...
Government IT employees sound the alarm after server damage, blame understaffing
By Sarah Ktisti Employees at the Department of Information Technology Services (DITS) on Friday laid the blame for damage to servers at the finance ministry...
Cyprus will operate an around-the-clock cybersecurity suite says deputy minister
A cybersecurity plan set to operate 24 hours a day has been drawn up by the deputy ministry of research, innovation, and digital policy and...
Russian hackers targeting Western critical infrastructure, UK says
The UK government’s cyber defence agency warned on Wednesday of an emerging threat to Western critical national infrastructure posed by hackers sympathetic to Russia and...
Cyber security system exists but remains unused, says deputy minister (Updated)
A government system to help improve cyber security has been sitting idly since 2019, Deputy Research Minister Philippos Hadjizacharias admitted on Thursday, as services were...
Land registry website problems due to ‘cyber attack’
After a “thorough evaluation of all data”, the land registry department on Sunday said the technical problem that saw it go offline since Wednesday was...
Montenegro’s government hit by cyber attack
Government digital infrastructure in Montenegro has been hit by an “unprecedented” cyber attack and timely measures have been taken to mitigate its impact, authorities said...
Amazon’s restores service after global outage (Update)
Amazon.com Inc said its online stores had returned to normal services after a global outage disrupted shopping on its country sites. E-commerce giant Amazon.com Inc’s...
Hackers demand $70 mln to restore data held by companies hit in cyberattack
The hackers suspected to be behind a mass ransomware attack that affected hundreds of companies worldwide late on Sunday demanded $70 million to restore the...