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I've always viewed NASA's move, of relying on the Russian Federal Space Agency for access to space once it retires its shuttles, with suspicion. Relaying on private space companies is even crazier, and the recent delays in the Soyuz launch scheduled proved my point yet again.
Space analysts are now beginn... |
6 February 2012
09:59 GMT |
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Last week we’ve learned that DreamHost was notifying customers that the firm suffered a data breach. It turns out that the information obtained by the hackers was put to good use and some sites were already compromised and altered to redirect visitors to a Russian scam.
Zscaler researchers identified a number ... |
4 February 2012
05:43 GMT |
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According to an announcement made by Russian officials, the Pulkovo Observatory will soon join the international hunt for extrasolar planets around distant stars. This installation is one of the largest and most complex Russian telescopes ever built, and is located on Pulkovo Heights, near Saint Petersburg.
The anno... |
2 February 2012
08:08 GMT |
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Two Russians, father and son, have been extradited from Switzerland to the US after they were caught running a fraudulent operation which helped them illegally earn a few hundred thousand dollars.
According to the FBI, 54-year-old Vladimir Zdorovenin and his son Kirill Zdorovenin now face charges of conspiracy, mail... |
19 January 2012
04:00 GMT |
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Video game developer Riot Games has announced that it plans to launch a Russian version of its Multiplayer Online Battle Arena title League of Legends in the near future, complete with dedicated servers and a new localized website that will help players get quickly up to speed with the game mechanics.Brandon Beck, wh... |
12 January 2012
13:01 GMT |
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A new reason of excitement comes from Russia, a nation planning to green up its infrastructure by opening the largest Li-ion battery plant all across the Globe. The announcement has pleased the public, taking into consideration that the new facility, located in Novobirsk, will hire more than 500 people and launch a... |
28 December 2011
07:21 GMT |
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The latest incidents surrounding the elections in Russia and the controversial company Carrier IQ have caused quite a stir in the media and that’s why I thought it would be a good idea to ask the opinions of some experts regarding these matters.
Since they covered most of these subjects, I decided to speak wit... |
23 December 2011
14:31 GMT |
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Pamela Anderson and other PETA activists are enjoying a new victory. It seems that Russia has decided to ban all seal fur imports, to make sure that its name won't be associated with cruel practices such as extended baby harp seal hunts.This is definitely bad news for Canada, since Russia has always been conside... |
21 December 2011
10:58 GMT |
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Video game developer Crytek and the Internet services company Mail.ro Group have announced that they are working together on launching the Warface first person shooter in both Russia and a number of other countries of the CIS area during 2012.Warface is free-to-play and is focused on online action with the developers... |
19 December 2011
16:31 GMT |
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Researchers from ESET, the renowned security solutions provider, discovered that a couple of Russian forums, on which political topics are debated, are under heavy attack, one of them barely managing to stay afloat.
Thousands of citizens are protesting these days on the streets of Russia’s cities as a result ... |
13 December 2011
02:42 GMT |
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Mobile phone users in Russia will soon be able to get a taste of the latest Google phone out there, the Samsung Galaxy Nexus.
Running under Google’s Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich operating system, the mobile phone is just making its way to shelves around the world, and it seems that Russia will receive it b... |
12 December 2011
18:41 GMT |
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After Symantec did a little reverse engineering on the now infamous Stuxnet worm, many started pointing the finger at the US and Israel, especially since it was concluded that the piece of malware was designed to target a specific version of the Siemens SCADA programmable logic controls (PLC) operating in certain nuc... |
12 December 2011
07:16 GMT |
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While people in Russia are protesting against the recent election results in the Triumfalnaya Square in Moscow, those who favor the current government launched a bot attack on Twitter, posting national slogans with the #триумфальная (Triumfalnaya) hashtag until they managed to block the original message feed that had... |
7 December 2011
11:00 GMT |
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On the day Russians elected the lower chamber of parliament, many of the country’s major websites that were keeping tabs on what went down in the election centers were suddenly taken down due to hacking operations.
Forbes Russia, Golos, considered to be the election’s watchdog, Balshoi Gorod, Slon.ru, Li... |
5 December 2011
04:19 GMT |
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As it turns out, the DHS was right when they claimed that the water pump incident was a simple failure and nothing more. The founder and owner of Navionics Research, and the one who helped set up the Illinois utility's SCADA systems was actually the one who accessed the systems from Russia, during one of his vac... |
1 December 2011
05:33 GMT |
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Some spam messages contain phone numbers instead of links that point to locations where different products are advertised. To make sure they successfully avoid spam filters, Russian spammers devised some new ways in which they make phone numbers remain undetected.
Symantec researchers reveal the large number of met... |
29 November 2011
09:49 GMT |
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When announcing Windows Phone 7 last year and the new Windows Phone 7.5 Mango in 2011, Microsoft stressed a lot on the great Bing integration that its users can benefit from.
However, it appears that the company was quick to replace Bing with another search service when bringing its devices to Russia, and made Ya... |
26 November 2011
10:51 GMT |
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Yandex, the biggest search engine in Russia and the biggest web company in the country, has announced a rather big move, it is now becoming the default search engine on Windows Phone devices selling in Russia.It's a big win and it's very interesting that Microsoft would allow this, after all, it's firi... |
25 November 2011
14:41 GMT |
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Yesterday, November 8, the Russian Federal Space Agency (RosCosmos) managed to successfully launch its Phobos-Grunt mission to the Martian moon Phobos. Unfortunately, the spacecraft failed as soon as it reached Earth's orbit.
RosCosmos officials say that the main thrusters aboard the probe failed to ignite pro... |
9 November 2011
07:46 GMT |
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Nokia's new Windows Phone devices, the Nokia Lumia 800 and the Nokia Lumia 710 are now listed as available for pre-order in Russia via wireless carrier MTS. The two new mobile phones are listed in Russia with price tag of 20990 Russian rubles (around $684 / 500 Euros) and 13490 Russian rubles (about $440 / 320... |
1 November 2011
08:43 GMT |
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Targeted attacks were discovered, causing damage to at least 47 companies and organizations who possessed classified documents and other spy-worthy information.
Trend Micro has discovered the Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) known as LURID which has had a large impact in countries such as Russia, Kazakhstan and Uk... |
23 September 2011
03:34 GMT |
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The Russian government has barred all oil-extracting companies seeking to conduct business in the Sakhalin Island from carrying out their activities when Western gray whales are present in the area. As such, any economic agency seeking to appropriate any of the newly-available concessions will have to respect this me... |
30 May 2011
10:47 GMT |
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As the six-astronaut crew aboard the International Space Station are scrambling to finish preparations for space shuttle Endeavor's arrival a couple of days from now, the Russians launched a new resupply space capsule, designated Progress 42.The spacecraft took off at 7:05 pm local time (1305 GMT), from the Baik... |
28 April 2011
08:33 GMT |
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According to a recent statement made by Russian officials, the country will not issue the necessary approvals for the Dragon space capsule to dock to the International Space Station, unless all security and reliability demands are thoroughly satisfied. The Hawthorne, California-based Space Exploration Technologies Co... |
26 April 2011
10:04 GMT |
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The Russian Federal Security Service (FSB), successor of the Soviet-era KGB, calls Gmail, Hotmail, and Skype encrypted communications a national security threat, prompting fears that they might get banned."Different software is being distributed allowing the encryption of traffic: that is services including Gmail, Ho... |
9 April 2011
04:15 GMT |
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Distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks directed at the blog of prominent Russian political activist Alexey Navalny resulted in repeated downtime for the entire LiveJournal platform.According to security experts from Russian antivirus vendor Kaspersky Lab who have been keeping an eye on one of the botnets used, ... |
6 April 2011
10:46 GMT |
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Officials from Russia and Israel have just signed a milestone agreement, concerning the cooperation between the two countries in space-related matters. There are no military provisions in the new document, representatives from both parties involved announced. The Russian Federation was represented by officials from t... |
29 March 2011
10:34 GMT |
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Russia's first petaflop capable supercomputer just came into operation at the Rosatom Nuclear Energy State Corporation in Sarov. The machine has a sustained performance of 780 teraflops, making it the 12th-fastest system in the world in an unofficial Supercomputer TOP500 list.
Apart from its performances not... |
11 March 2011
08:00 GMT |
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According to the conclusions of a scientific study, it would appear that the deadly heat wave which claimed the lives of thousands of Russians in 2010 was caused by natural variability.While this particular heat wave was not caused by climate change or global warming, the researchers caution that the natural atmosphe... |
10 March 2011
05:08 GMT |
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Today, Norwegian software company Opera announced the availability of a special version of Opera Mini for Vodafone for the users of mobile phones on Russian carrier MTS' airwaves, offering fast access to Internet for browsing, as well as to favorite web resources.Users can enjoy having number of up to 30 favori... |
2 March 2011
12:01 GMT |
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A closed underground forum that served as a hangout for some of the most notorious Russian cybercriminals was hacked and its entire database was leaked.According to LifeNews.ru [Google translation], MAZA.la was compromised on February 18 by hackers from a rival forum called Direct Connection.Direct Connection is home... |
28 February 2011
08:59 GMT |
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A 27-year-old Russian programmer named Eugene Anikin received a five-year suspended prison sentence today for his role in a major fraud operation that resulted in the theft of almost $10 million from US-based RBS WorldPay.The RBS WorldPay cyberheist is considered one of the most sophisticated and well organized cyber... |
8 February 2011
00:40 GMT |
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Following the unsuccessful launch of another satellite late last year, the Russians have reportedly suffered a new failure in launching an advanced military satellites. The spacecraft made it to orbit, but then shortly after mission controllers lost all contact with the asset.The launch took place on February 1, 2011... |
2 February 2011
03:12 GMT |
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Yandex, the dominating search engine on the Russian market, boasts record revenue for 2010. This while it's already significant market share continues to grow. The company made no mention of profitability, but Yandex is planning a possible 2011 initial public offering. Revenue increased 43 percent in the last ye... |
19 January 2011
10:38 GMT |
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Security researchers found that a piece of ransomware which forces users to send an SMS to a premium rate number in order to unlock their computers, have earned $30,000 from an estimated 2,500 victims over the last five weeks.The ransomware model is considered to be the next step in the evolution of scareware, but wh... |
14 January 2011
04:56 GMT |
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After more than 20 years of drilling in the Antarctic ice sheet, Russian explorers are getting ready to penetrate the surface of Lake Vostok, and underground body of water that has been covered by ice millions of years ago. Their drill bit is a short distance away from its target. According to estimates, it's be... |
8 January 2011
07:15 GMT |
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According to the People's Daily newspaper, it would appear that the China National Space Administration (CNSA) wants to launch its first Mars-bound spacecraft in October 2011, in cooperation with the Russian Federation.If the plan materializes, it will be the first orbiter that China sends to the Red P... |
3 January 2011
04:32 GMT |
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Prime Minister of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin, signed a government order for the transition of federal executive bodies and agencies of the federal budget to use free software between 2011 - 2015.According to the document signed on December 17th, 2010, the Russian government will have to dump proprietary s... |
28 December 2010
09:36 GMT |
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The whole Wikileaks saga is one of the hottest topics nowadays, especially since the leaked documents provide information regarding a whole range of subject, ranging from UFOs to the American companies' exploits on foreign soils, including here on of the best-known US corporations, namely Intel.So, as TechE... |
6 December 2010
10:02 GMT |
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Authorities in the Russian Federation announce that three satellites aboard a recently-launched delivery system have been lost in the waters of the Pacific Ocean, after the rocket that carried them delivered them to the wrong orbit.The launch occurred yesterday, when a larger version of the renowned Proton rocket too... |
6 December 2010
03:09 GMT |
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The Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MVD) has dismantled a fraud ring whose members managed to infect all ATMs in the city of Yakutsk with malware designed to steal credit card data.Yakutsk is the capital of the Russian Sakha (Yakutia) Republic, the largest federal subject of the Russian Federation, by area. The... |
1 December 2010
13:30 GMT |
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According to reports in the Russian media, the country's authorities and Federal Space Agency (RosCosmos) have big plans for the nation's future in space. Nuclear-powered spacecraft are high on the priority list, as is the development of shields against space debris.Russia has been dreaming about going to t... |
25 November 2010
02:42 GMT |
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Antivirus vendor Trend Micro warns that Russia is quickly climbing up the list of top spammiest countries and is playing a major role on the spam landscape.Russia's month-to-month growth in spam output was impressive. In August it was in seventh place on the list of top 10 spam-sending countries.It then jumped t... |
16 November 2010
09:32 GMT |
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Mail.ru Group, the company behind the eponymous Russian website and an investor in a large number of Russian online properties as well as companies such as Facebook, Groupon and Zynga, has filed for an initial public offering at the London Stock Exchange. The company announced the move earlier this month, but has now... |
25 October 2010
10:39 GMT |
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Russian authorities arrested fifty people suspected of being members of an identity theft and credit card counterfeiting gang, who stole almost $2 million from local and foreign banks.The case was handled by "Department K" of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, which specializes in the investigation of cybercrimes and ... |
4 October 2010
11:53 GMT |
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Kaspersky Lab reports that the number of hosts infected with Stuxnet in Iran has been slowly decreasing since July, but has spiked in Kazakhstan and Russia this month.The Stuxnet industrial espionage worm has been in the news a lot recently. Considered by many as the most sophisticated malware of all time, peopl... |
27 September 2010
12:43 GMT |
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Another hacker will be tried in Russia for his alleged role in the $9-million RBS WorldPay cyber heist, leaving open the possibility that he is the defendant referred to as 'Hacker 3' in an indictment filed in US.Citing local media, Threat Post reports that a criminal case will be heard against one Eugene... |
15 September 2010
11:30 GMT |
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In an attempt to protect the Russian nongovernmental organizations and the independent news media from attacks by authorities who accuse them of violating Microsoft's copyrights, the company will temporarily legalize their pirated software.What Microsoft will actually do is issue a “unilateral NGO software... |
15 September 2010
06:59 GMT |
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Opera Software and wireless carrier New Telephone Company (NTC) announced the launch of a special service package for NTC’s 1.4 million subscribers, called “Unlimited surfing with Opera Mini.”The release comes as the result of an agreement between the two companies and is meant to offer to NTC user... |
15 September 2010
05:05 GMT |
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A team of explorers announced yesterday, September 13, that they have just discovered the log of a ship that set sail about a century ago, in search for the elusive Northeast Passage. This was a hypothesized route that was supposed to connect Europe with Asia directly, through or around the North Pole. Satellite data... |
14 September 2010
09:19 GMT |
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