Two Polish security researchers wanted to find out how vulnerable their country’s internet was to potential cyberattacks, and quickly found that thousands of public agencies and websites were at risk of being hacked. At the Def Con cybersecurity conference in Las Vegas on Friday, security researchers Robert Kruczek and Kamil Szczurowski said they wanted to
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said an object that crashed in a field in eastern Poland in the early hours of Thursday was probably a Russian missile. The unidentified object caused a 10-meter-wide crater a short distance from the village of Tarnawa Kolonia, about 100 kilometers from the Ukrainian border, during a Russian attack on
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The 18-year-old was also accused of making preparations to fly a drone over Polish President Karol Nawrocki’s vehicle during last year’s Polish Armed Forces Day parade in Warsaw on August 15. He was arrested three days before the event took place. The suspect, who faces life in prison if convicted, allegedly recruited people to participate
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The Polish prime minister has said the country is preparing for “several” scenarios and that the coming months could be “critical” in relation to the threat from Russia. Donald Tusk was responding to media reports that Moscow was planning an armed “provocation” in Poland to test NATO’s resolve, citing US intelligence. “I don’t want to