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Russia would have to ban electricity to isolate the Russian Internet, says ICANN VP

January 16, 2017

Amid concerns in Moscow that Russian Internet users face the threat of isolation from the World Wide Web, a prominent Internet authority is arguing that nothing short of banning electricity could rob Russians of their access to global cyberspace. According to Mikhail Yakushev, a regional vice president at the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and …

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How Russia recruited elite hackers for its cyberwar

December 30, 2016

While much about Russia’s cyberwarfare program is shrouded in secrecy, details of the government’s effort to recruit programmers in recent years — whether professionals, college students, or even criminals — are shedding some light on the Kremlin’s plan to create elite teams of computer hackers. For more than three years, rather than rely on military officers …

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Russian hackers reportedly attacked the OSCE in October

December 29, 2016

The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) acknowledges that it was the target of a hacker attack in late October, according to Reuters. The French newspaper Le Monde attributes the attack to the Russian hacker group called “APT28” (“Advanced Persistent Threat 28”), better known as “Fancy Bear,” which American officials have accused of …

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ITMO students are the best coders in the world, says new ranking

December 27, 2016

Which colleges have the best coders in the world? This simple question is not addressed by academic rankings. The “Top Computer Science Programs ranking of U.S. News & World Report, for example, takes into account such criteria as number of research papers produced, global research reputation, and number of conferences — but practical coding skills are not even …

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Cybercrime presents global challenge – and business opportunities

December 29, 2016

Hackers may be associated around the world with Russia above any other country, thanks to news reports that often describe cybercriminals as Russian, and to accusations this year that Russian hackers were behind attacks on the U.S. Democratic National Committee. The problem, however, is very much a global one, international experts agreed at the Skolkovo …

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Russian billionaire Mikhail Fridman invests in French OTT TV service

December 26, 2016

Earlier this month Russian billionaire Mikhail Fridman took part in a $24 million funding round for French OTT TV service Molotov. The UK media group Sky and the French infrastructure operator TDF also participated in the deal in undisclosed proportions. Molotov will use the resources to expand its footprint internationally, said Molotov’s co-founder Jean-David Blanc, as reported …

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Spokeswoman for Russia’s foreign ministry accuses Facebook of working with ISIS

December 22, 2016

Maria Zakharova, the colorful spokeswoman for Russia’s Foreign Ministry, accused Facebook administrators of working for the Islamic State, after the network temporarily unpublished one of her posts on Monday. Shortly after Moscow formally confirmed the death of Andrei Karlov, Russia’s ambassador to Turkey, Zakharova posted a photograph on Facebook, showing Karlov standing in front of …

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Skolkovo expands R&D partnership with Panasonic as Russia and Japan seek to bolster ties

December 16, 2016

Today Skolkovo, the international tech hub under completion on the outskirts of Moscow, and Panasonic, a world leader in electronics and system solutions, agreed “strategic areas” for  their business cooperation in 2017. The agreement was signed in the framework of the Russia-Japan Business Dialogue during the visit of Russian president Vladimir Putin in Japan. The parties intend to “make an …

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Russian face recognition app now available to Twitter users and Turkish police

November 18, 2024

Now Twitter users can find a random person’s page in the network after taking a photo of them in the street. This functionality — a sort of Shazam for people — is offered by FindFace, an app that can scan Twitter’s database of 313 million active users in less than a second and find a match, if it exists. The app was made available to Twitter …

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Russian startups invited to pitch to global investors at Riga’s TechChill (registration deadline: Jan 15)

December 15, 2016

Seed startups from Russia and other Eastern European countries are invited to apply for the TechChill Pitch Battle, an intensive one-day bootcamp for qualifying startups. The contest will be held as part of TechChill, a two-day startup conference taking place in Riga, Latvia in February 2017. The event is presented as “one of the best opportunities for new companies …

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Cybersecurity company Wallarm secures $2.3 million after graduating Y Combinator

December 14, 2016

Wallarm, a cybersecurity startup with Russian roots, has just secured $2.3 million in equity funding. The round involved Gagarin Capital — an investment firm which is particularly active in Eastern Europe, having backed MSQRD and Prisma, — Partech Ventures and unnamed individual investors. A resident of Skolkovo, the Russian international tech hub under completion, Wallarm has developed “a complete solution for blocking …

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Putin’s new information security doctrine: Russia’s cyberspace vulnerabilities in a nutshell

December 14, 2016

On December 6, 2016, President Vladimir Putin ratified Russia’s new Information Security Doctrine to replace a document that was in force since September 2000. This official document defines the main sources of threats against Russia in cyberspace and offers solutions to deal with them. The document was part of Russia’s national security strategy, which was …

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