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UK, US, Russia, China - surveillance blackspots
Blog A report by Privacy International has again found the UK to be up there with such enlightened regimes as Russia, China, and the US in terms of how intrusive surveillance is in our society. Ok, China and Russia have a worse human rights reputation...
[January 2, 2008, 17:32]
Russia gets ready to gag online dissent
News Russia's parliament may give final approval this week to sweeping restrictions on using the Internet to oppose the government. The Russian measure, which could receive final approval in the Duma as early as this week, pitted Putin and his...
[June 25, 2002, 9:29]
Russia's Baltika Breweries Links Its ERP Databases Using SQL Server 2008 Replication
White Papers Baltika Breweries, the largest producer of beer in Russia, has about 12,000 employees and 11 breweries. Its popular brands have been the market leader in Russia for more than a decade and are exported to 46 countries.
[March 25, 2008, 0:01]
Russia's cybercrime-fighting Bond villain
News Police reports suggest that a lot of phishing attacks and hack attacks originate in Russia. There are many types of hackers and criminals in Russia and in China, of course. In Russia we have criminals, but in Germany, China, the States, the UK and...
[January 10, 2005, 16:05]
Russia accuses FBI agent of hacking
News Russia has accused an FBI agent who nabbed two Russian hackers of downloading evidence against the pair from a server based in Russia without authorisation. The charges come nearly two years after FBI investigators lured two Chelyabinsk, Russia...
[August 19, 2002, 8:08]
Russia tweaks laws to drive IT growth
News Like India and China before it, Russia is revamping national policies to expand its presence in the global information technology industry. Although raw materials have been the cornerstone of Russia's economic growth in the last decade, the country...
[January 30, 2004, 8:40]
Comcast subscribers unable to email Russia
Talkback Today is March 12, 2004 and I still cannot email my friend in Russia. Comcast is now blaming Russia. Would appreciate update since comcast website is unresponsive.
[March 12, 2004, 18:37]
Russia faces increased Internet restrictions
News Pustinsev referred to "Sorm 2", a system of black boxes that must be installed by Internet service providers (ISPs) in Russia allowing interception of their subscribers' correspondence. On Friday a Russian pro-democracy campaigner denounced...
[September 26, 2000, 10:10]
iNews Russia
Downloads iNews Russia gives access to feeds of Russia section of most admired news sources. It provides news feeds of the Russia sections from Google, Big News Network, OECD, Pew Forum, and Moscow Times. This application features get latest news of all news...
[September 2, 2009, 11:46]
NeuStar Partners With MegaFon to Deliver Russia's Third Mobile Instant Messaging Service
White Papers MegaFon is Russia's first all-Russian mobile operator in GSM 900/1800 standard. Mobile IM is emerging as a popular service with Russia's mobile users, and the company needed to ensure that a quality messaging service is available to their subscribers.
[April 16, 2009, 1:22]
Georgia accuses Russia of co-ordinated cyberattack
News The Georgian embassy in the UK has accused forces within Russia of launching a co-ordinated cyberattack against Georgian websites, to coincide with military operations in the breakaway region of South Ossetia.
[August 11, 2008, 13:51]
Russia attacks Microsoft licensing costs
News Russia is in the Business Software Alliance's top 10 list of worst offending countries for counterfeit software, and deputy Russian IT minister, Dmitry Milovantsev, admitted in a briefing in Moscow last week that unlicensed software is a "very...
[February 19, 2007, 8:36]
Russia and China 'behind current spam deluge'
News Organised criminals based in Russia are fuelling the rise in the amount of spam sent over the Internet, according to a leading opponent of junk mail. Steve Linford, director of The Spamhaus Project, warned on Tuesday that these gangs are supplying...
[June 8, 2004, 18:20]
Sale(s) in Russia
Talkback I guess MicroSoft is expecting to sell 2 copies of Windows in Russia this year.
[June 19, 2009, 2:33]
HP to open research lab in Russia
News HP is opening a research lab in Russia, a country that some believe could be technology's next major outpost. Like other tech companies, HP has had a global presence for years and has operated in Russia as well.
[January 22, 2007, 16:34]
Bank scam may originate from Russia
News A criminal element from Russia may be responsible for the recent spate of spoof emails that have attempted to con online-banking customers into revealing their account details. The scam is reminiscent of the infamous "419" scam emails, where the...
[October 27, 2003, 14:10]
Make games not nukes: DTI outsources to Russia
News Coming from Russia, these guys have been used to using quite low-spec kit so are very adept at creating super-efficient code with lots of clever short-cuts," said Allington. Flying over the six scientists is part of the DTI's £6m UK-Russia Closed...
[September 2, 2004, 18:00]
US and Russia don't extradite their own citizens
Talkback US and Russia don't extradite their citizens. I think we should take the same approach , he should be trialed here. Also the UK has a policy (i think we are signed up to it as international law) not to deport or extradite someone to a country with...
[August 6, 2009, 12:24]
Expensive Trojan emerges in Russia
News That could drive up the text message bill for mobile phone users in Russia on the Beeline, MTS and Megafon networks. Antivirus companies are warning of new malicious software that can infect any mobile phone capable of running Java applications...
[March 1, 2006, 14:05]
Comcast subscribers unable to email Russia
News Since Saturday, Comcast subscribers with contacts in Russia have been scrambling for information about the outage. Comcast's high-speed Internet subscribers trying to email Russian addresses found themselves incommunicado for four days after the...
[March 3, 2004, 8:20]
