AT LEAST half of the incidents of online child pornography are not reported due to how close-knit Cypriot society is, according to Cyber Crime Unit investigator George Karkas.“We live in a very closed society still where people feel ashamed to report certain things,” said Karkas, speaking at a safer internet training course on Thursday.In 2011 alone around 24 people were found in possession of child pornographic material, compared to 9 cases in 2010. Another categorisation made by the Unit is the number of people ‘invited into child pornography’ which involves cases where children – under the age of 18 – were coerced into taking their clothes off in front of a web cam.In 2011 there was only one such case, however in 2010 there were six... 1 comment

A WEB portal promising direct and instantaneous interaction between the public and healthcare specialists was unveiled by Artworks Publications in Nicosia yesterday.The portal (www.iatrikoskosmos.com) was developed by HS Data, a Cyprus-based provider of technology solutions.Coming online in the next few days, it will be the first Cypriot website based on Microsoft's proprietary Cloud technology, where end-users access applications through a web browser or a light weight desktop or mobile app while the business software and data are stored on servers at a remote location... Read on