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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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A team of experts at the European Space Agency (ESA) says that the wildfires which affected the Russian capital and the rest of the country this year are the worst to take place over the last 14 years. The data that led to this conclusion were taken by specialized, Earth-sensing satellites that ESA operates in orbita... |
14 September 2010
04:08 GMT |
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Viktor Pleshchuk, one of the masterminds behind the $9 million RBS WorldPay cyberheist, received a six-year suspended prison sentence in Russia after agreeing to help authorities with information.The RBS WorldPay hit is viewed by many as the most sophisticated and well organized cyberfraud operation ever conducted.In... |
9 September 2010
09:19 GMT |
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According to a number of top climate scientists, the heatwaves and wildfires that struck the Russian Federation over the past couple of months were not necessarily caused by global warming. They do not dispute that the worldwide phenomenon had a role to play, but say that Russian scientists exaggerated when they attr... |
18 August 2010
05:58 GMT |
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According to hundreds of reports posted in the past 48 hours on Russian forums and blogs, there's a new computer worm currently spreading and infecting users on ICQ.It seems that the outbreak started sometime yesterday and manifests itself as a message received from a friend followed by a file transfer request f... |
17 August 2010
12:32 GMT |
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In a public statement issued after negotiations with the Indian government for access to secure BlackBerry communications, RIM stresses that it doesn't treat countries differently; however, Jeffrey Carr, a security expert who specializes in cyber conflicts, disagrees.As we reported last week, the Indian governme... |
16 August 2010
15:38 GMT |
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This summer was disastrous for the Russian Federation. Excessive temperatures have triggered heat waves that sparked numerous wildfires all across the massive countr, and the smoke they produce can be felt above the capital city of Moscow as well. In fact, the city is covered in a massive blanket of smog, which featu... |
9 August 2010
05:02 GMT |
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Last week, a Russian court ordered a local ISP to block YouTube entirely for hosting one video that it classified as ‘extremist’ in the country. Anyone with any understanding of how the internet and YouTube works would know that this is in no way a solution, but the court would have none of it, access sho... |
3 August 2010
10:16 GMT |
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Russia joints the less-than-flattering list of countries to ban the video site YouTube. Now a court in the far-east town of Komsomolsk-on-Amur in the Khabarovsk region has ordered that YouTube, along with four other sites, be blocked by an ISP in the region. In YouTube’s case, the reason was an extremist video,... |
29 July 2010
09:09 GMT |
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Facebook may not be the most open company out there, but it values the developers working with its platform. And Facebook has one of the hottest platforms of the moment, Zynga’s billion-dollar business can attest to that, smart developers can make a tidy profit on Facebook. The company is now encouraging develo... |
12 July 2010
09:33 GMT |
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While proprietary software is characteristically closed-source, there are exceptions to this rule, with select third parties being allowed complete access to products such as Windows and Office. Microsoft has announced that it plans to share the source code of Windows 7 with the Russian federation, also opening up ad... |
8 July 2010
05:54 GMT |
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Security researchers have come accross a new ZBOT sample which targets several online banking systems in Russia. The variant was generated with a very old version of the ZeuS toolkit.ZeuS is a one of the most widespread and active developed crimeware toolkits. The program is so popular because it makes it easy for ev... |
6 July 2010
03:08 GMT |
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It seems that the Russian Parliament has had enough of the stereotypical way in which citizens of the great nation are portrayed in videogames and plans to deal with the issues by creating no less than six patriotic videogames. The Ministry of Communication has actually requested about 500 million rubles, which is mo... |
10 June 2010
15:01 GMT |
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Russia is looking to reinvent itself as a technological country and to spur development and research in high-tech fields with the help of outside companies and funds. The country is building a massive technology park, which many are labeling Russia’s Silicon Valley, in a Moscow suburb, Skolovo. The project has ... |
1 June 2010
05:44 GMT |
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A Russian newspaper recently ran a story that proposed a new method of stopping the expanding oil spill currently adorning the surface of the Gulf of Mexico. The editors write that the former Soviet Union had good results in such instances when it used targeted, tactical nukes to seal off natural gas or oil leaks. Ex... |
13 May 2010
05:48 GMT |
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By the end of the coming month, Microsoft will hand out an impressive number of free copies of the latest iteration of its Windows client to all schools in Russia, weaving off all installation limitations. According to the Redmond company, the plan is to send free installation DVDs with Windows 7 to in excess of 54,... |
26 March 2010
07:32 GMT |
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Russian authorities have responded to critics as being a safe heaven for hackers and introduced stricter measures to registering .RU domain names. The increased security measures will force persons and entrepreneurs to submit copies of their passport or their state certificate if they're a legal entity.These cha... |
23 March 2010
11:17 GMT |
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A Canadian researcher has recently discovered the tracks left behind by a famous Russian lunar rover. The investigator used only maps from one of his own atlases on the Moon, and recent images from the NASA Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) spacecraft, to make the finding. The inspiration for the work came from the ... |
17 March 2010
08:03 GMT |
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After Austerlitz, it was time to head to the endless expanses of the Russian Empire and face the campaign, which undid much of the conquests of Napoleon Bonaparte. More than half a million men were involved in the battle and more than a quarter of them were casualties. The trouble was that deep in Russia, Napoleon co... |
16 March 2010
19:21 GMT |
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The Russian Federation has made no secret from the fact that it plans to construct its own global navigation system, similar to the American Global Positioning System (GPS). In order to do this successfully, and to gain global coverage, the nation's space agency, RosCosmos, needs to deliver a large number of sat... |
2 March 2010
03:21 GMT |
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Anyone watching the social media online market has been hearing a name a lot lately, Digital Sky Technologies (DST). The Russian internet investment group has been making some rather big splashes after a couple of huge investments, in Facebook and Zynga, some of the company's first forays outside of its home ter... |
22 February 2010
09:41 GMT |
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Scientists seeking to drill deep beneath Antarctica announce that deeply-buried Lake Vostok is within their reach. Russian drill specialists say that they have only 100 meters of depth to cover, and that the amazing, sealed lake will be reached this year, or in 2011 at the latest. The issue is not simply drilling thr... |
22 February 2010
04:01 GMT |
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There seems to be a lot of activity from Russia lately when it comes to internet services and companies. The Russian investment group Digital Sky Technologies has already made a name for itself with after the investments in Facebook and Zynga, but there are plenty of others who are looking to venture out of the home... |
16 February 2010
04:56 GMT |
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Selling and installing pirated Microsoft software is nothing short of an integral part of the mundane scenery in Russia, a study from the Redmond company found. Russian software outlets are easily getting away with commercializing bootlegged products, the software giant showed, although the company did emphasize that... |
11 February 2010
10:56 GMT |
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South Korean mobile phone maker LG Electronics is reportedly working on a series of new high-end devices that should arrive on the market during the ongoing year, and an LG LU9400 Arena Max is one of them. The phone emerged into the wild before, some of you might already know that, and now a series of photos with it... |
8 February 2010
14:31 GMT |
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The website of Russia's leading independent newspaper, Novaya Gazeta, has been under a continuous Denial of Service attack for over a week. The publication's staff feels it's the work of more than amateur hackers.Denial of Service attacks involve overloading a server with bogus requests. The attack aga... |
2 February 2010
10:15 GMT |
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Late last year, the Russian Federal Space Agency (RosCosmos) announced its plans to begin work on the design and construction phases of a new, nuclear-powered spacecraft. This type of project is not new, but the Russian government apparently has taken things seriously. It has just alloted about 430 million rubles ($1... |
12 January 2010
05:01 GMT |
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Canadian mobile phone maker Research in Motion and Mobile TeleSystems OJSC announced recently the launch of the BlackBerry Curve 8520 in Russia, and the availability of the device through all MTS shops in the country. The new mobile phone has been released on the carrier's airwaves both for end users and for co... |
18 December 2009
05:00 GMT |
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Google rules the search market worldwide and clearly dominates in most countries. In a few markets though, it has failed to make too much inroad, especially where the country is being served by a powerful local brand. This is the case in China, where Google is getting trumped by Baidu and has just managed to get to ... |
15 December 2009
08:46 GMT |
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Merely two days ago, the citizens in the northern parts of Norway could see a very peculiar, spiral-like formation glowing on the night sky. Viewed from a lot of angles, it immediately began to raise suspicions that it was a UFO, and many conspiracy theorists began to hypothesize as to its origins and purpose there. ... |
11 December 2009
02:04 GMT |
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Strategy First Inc. is announcing that it has entered into an agreement with Valve, the company that maintains the Steam digital distribution service, to offer the title 9th Company: The Roots of Terror for download. All gamers who are interested in a tough strategy title dealing with events in the Soviet occupation ... |
8 December 2009
13:11 GMT |
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If you've ventured through the single-player campaign of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, then you've already gotten a taste of what the developers think of Russia and its residents. As any good American that has lived through the Cold War or been raised on movies inspired by that period, the writers behind ... |
17 November 2009
04:30 GMT |
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Top officials in the Russian Federation announced on Thursday that they gave their acceptance to a proposal stating that the country should pursue the development of a nuclear-powered spacecraft, which is currently set to fly as early as 2012. This would essentially leave the former Communist nation in charge of the ... |
5 November 2009
10:52 GMT |
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Local Polish media reports that the country's government network was the target of an organized cyberattack back in September. The authorities are reluctant to disclose details about the incident, but apparently the attack originated in Russia.According to the Polish Rzeczpospolita (The Republic) newspaper, the ... |
15 October 2009
10:03 GMT |
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According to the international agreements among the space agencies involved in the International Space Station (ISS), the sky lab is to end its operations by 2015. However, more and more of the countries involved are beginning to question if it is wise to put an end to the ISS, after it operated at full capacity for ... |
12 October 2009
08:49 GMT |
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Between 1961 and 1985, the Soviet space agency funded and conducted a series of space-exploration missions to Venus, in order to collect as many scientific data about the “morning star” as possible. Ten of the probes in the Venera program successfully landed on the surface of the planet and relayed data b... |
9 October 2009
06:05 GMT |
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The American space agency NASA usually makes use of solar panels for its exploration missions in the solar system, such as for instance on Mars, the Moon, Saturn, Mercury, Vesta, Ceres, and so on. But these explorations take place in the relative vicinity of the Sun, so the amount of electricity produced by the solar... |
1 October 2009
06:04 GMT |
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