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New law to achieve unprecedented control over Russian citizens’ communications

February 28, 2017

Russia, which gave asylum to Edward Snowden after he exposed a vast U.S. surveillance program, is seeking unprecedented controls over its citizens’ communications. The lower house of parliament in Moscow gave preliminary approval to a bill that would require providers to store recordings of mobile-phone conversations and Internet activity for as long as three years. Since …

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Russia probably behind cyberattack on Bundestag, say German authorities

May 16, 2016

Russian intelligence agencies were probably responsible for a massive cyber attack on Germany’s lower house of parliament last year which forced its computer systems to be shut down for days, Germany’s domestic intelligence agency said on Friday. The agency, known as the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV), said a hacker group …

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Russian man sentenced to prison for reposting photographs on social network

May 18, 2016

Earlier this month a court in the western Russian city of Tver has sentenced a man to over two years in prison for reposting photographs on social network VKontakte, The Moscow Times has reported. Mechanical engineer Andrei Bubeev reposted material originally published by Russian journalist Boris Stomakhin. The editor of the monthly newspaper Radikalnaya Politika (Radical Politics), …

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Pussy Riot founder seeks to assert her site on Russia’s online media scene

May 10, 2016

Pussy Riot punk performer Nadya Tolokonnikova is looking for a new audience — readers and, ideally, financial backers who can turn her two-year-old news website into a full-blown contender on Russia’s media scene. MediaZona, the website she helped found in 2014 with a focus on criminal justice news, has about 2.2 million visitors a month …

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“Cybercrime as a service:” Russian malware creator sentenced by US court

May 4, 2016

Earlier this week Nikita Kuzmin, a 28-year old Russian citizen who created the Gozi malware, was released from US prison after being sentenced in a federal court to time served (37 months). Kuzmin was also ordered to pay forfeiture and restitution in the amount of nearly $7 million. Kuzmin pled guilty to the computer intrusion and …

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Mail.ru Group eyes Iranian market as ICQ gains popularity in the country

May 4, 2016

Unlike Yandex, which a few months ago declined government invites to enter the Iranian market, Mail.ru Group, a leading, LSE-listed Russian Internet group, is “engaged in a marketing investigation and research” of this market. In particular, young Iranians have shown great interest in ICQ, an international messenger service that belongs to the group, with about 35,000 users having already downloaded it, reports Sputnik. In an exchange with the online …

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Award-winning Russian face recognition technology used to harass young women and track pyromaniacs

September 29, 2020

A face recognition app called ‘FindFace‘ is sparking controversy in Russia over the destructive power of new technologies with regards to user privacy. Released in February by NtechLab, a startup established last year in Moscow, FindFace helps put names to faces on a picture. Combining facial recognition software with neural networks, the app will automatically match the image to people’s social media pages on Vkontakte, …

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How viral websites replace news media for Russia’s younger generation

April 28, 2016

Some of the Russian Internet’s biggest “entertainment websites” aren’t formally registered as media outlets, but for millions of young people they are trusted and beloved sources of news and information. Visitors populate these communities with their own “demotivators” and GIFs, often creating mashups and memes more popular than any articles or photo galleries published in …

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American-Russian web server publisher Ngnix secures $8 million from Telstra

January 9, 2019

Last week Ngnix (pronounced “engine-x”), a US-based open source web server publisher with Russian origins, announced a new $8 million strategic investment led by Telstra, a leading telecommunications provider. “The move will bring further expertise to the company and help it continue to expand and capture a significant share of the global application delivery market,” Ngnix stated. The …

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Inside SpyEye: How the Russian hacker behind the billion-dollar malware was taken down

April 24, 2016

For two years, SpyEye was the world’s most destructive piece of malware targeting banks and financial institutions, infecting more than 50 million PCs and causing estimated damage of $1 billion. The malware, created by a young Russian hacker who liked to brag of its malevolence, was secretly installed on victims’ computers, spread via spam emails and malicious websites, and worked by silently …

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Yandex’s browser protects users from DNS spoofing and router hijacking

April 22, 2016

Yandex, the NASDAQ-listed Russian Internet search company, announced today an update of its in-house browser to include a built-in domain name system protection feature – DNSCrypt. DNSCrypt is a protocol that authenticates communications between a browser requesting a DNS address of a website and a DNS server offering this address. “Provided by renowned DNS security expert, OpenDNS, …

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