Since this morning, many LinkedIn users from Russia have not been able to access the site. Local Internet service providers have started to block access to the site following as requested by telecom regulator Roskomnadzor. In a short statement, Roskomnadzor cites a Moscow court decision from August, according to which LinkedIn has failed to comply with the Russian legislation on personal data storage. This initial court decision was …
Last Thursday, Russian antitrust authority said it had opened an investigation into Microsoft for allegedly abusing its dominance in the antivirus software market. The Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) is investigating whether the tech giant is in violation of Part 1 Article 10 of the Federal Law ‘On Protection of Competition,‘ which prohibits companies occupying dominant …
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Rejecting an appeal from the US company, a Moscow municipal court confirmed today an earlier court decision to consider LinkedIn as violating the Russian legislation on personal data storage. The news has just been reported by the Russian news agency Interfax. As a consequence, the telecom regulator Roskomnadzor — which had initiated the legal procedure against LinkedIn — will require operators …
On Oct. 19, Yevgeny Nikulin, a suspected Russia hacker, was arrested in Prague by local police working with the FBI. The American side is currently seeking his extradition to the United States. “The Russian Foreign Ministry and embassy in Prague are actively working with the authorities in order to prevent the extradition of a Russian citizen …
Roskomnadzor, the Russian telecom and Internet regulator, has initiated a legal procedure to block access to LinkedIn from Russia, should the US site not comply with the new legislation on personal data storage. This legislation, which came into force in September 2015, requires to store Russian citizens’ personal data only in databases located on Russia territory (see white paper by EWDN and EY). Many …
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Emma Moore could have been the health and weight loss guru you spent your life looking for. You might be forgiven for not knowing her work — after all, she has a common name, one that she shares with other similarly successful authors on Amazon. Until this week, she had dozens of health, dieting, cooking, and …
The Kremlin has already begun work on plans to monitor and decrypt Russia’s online traffic in real-time, Kommersant has reported. According to the Russian business daily, Natalya Kaspersky, CEO of cyber-security firm InfoWatch and a member of the Kremlin’s IT and Sovereignty working group, confirmed that talks on the project were already under way. Kaspersky later denied the claims, saying that the newspaper had “twisted her words.” The …
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Russia’s Federal Anti-monopoly Service (FAS) has fined Google 438 million rubles (approximately $6.7 million at the current exchange rate) for abusing its dominant position in the Russian market. This fine accounts for some 2.5% of the turnover of Google’s Russian subsidiary, noted the Russian business daily Kommersant. Google was found guilty of violating anti-monopoly laws by forcing phone …
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Russia’s Federal Anti-monopoly Service (FAS) has filed a case against US tech giant Apple on allegations of price-fixing. A number of retailers are continuing to sell the iPhone 6S, 6S Plus, and other models at the same price as when the phones were released in October 2015, the FAS claim. Some 16 Russian companies are alleged to be involved in the case, including MTS, M.Video, Beeline, Eldorado, Euroset, Media …
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The Moscow police have recorded an 86% rise in online extremism in the first half of 2016, compared to the same period last year, the Interfax news agency reported. Anatoly Yakunin, the head of Moscow’s Interior Ministry announced that all forms of extremist crimes had risen 25% in the first half of the year but …
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Earlier this week Roskomnadzor, the Russian telecom and Internet regulator, added Amazon’s cloud storage domain (s3.amazonaws.com) to the register of prohibited sites, before cancelling this access restriction. The web address was included into the register on June 21, although the Tax Service had already ordered to do so in May. According to Russian tech blog Habrahabr, the …
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A Russian hacker has pled guilty in a U.S court to aiding in the theft of $1.6 million, international media reported Monday. Vadim Polyakov, 32, was the leader of a $1.6-million international ticket-scamming ring. He hacked into more than 1,000 accounts on U.S. ticket sales website StubHub. Using the credit card details attached to the …
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