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Networking In: Russia
White Papers With the world’s 12th largest economy, a GDP of over $1.4T, and a growth rate of 6.7%, Russia is a vital market for global business. However, enterprises opening or expanding operations in Russia face telecom cost overruns, a changing regulatory...
[December 22, 2005, 23:00]
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]
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 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]
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 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 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]
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]
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]
Problems With Mortality Data In Russia
White Papers Mortality crisis in Russia was discussed many times in the scientific literature. However little attention was paid to the problems of the quality of mortality statistics in Russia, which is rapidly deteriorating.
[February 5, 2007, 23:00]
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]
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]
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]
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]
Apher Worm: From Russia With Problems
News Why would Microsoft send you an announcement of a new antivirus product from Russia? It wouldn't. Yet the author of the Apher worm (w32.apher@mm) is willing to bet someone will fall for it. Unfortunately, Apher includes a known Trojan horse...
[August 23, 2002, 8:27]
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]
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]
Bank Scam May Originate From Russia
Talkback I think that maybe my husband has been suckered into this scam.He has been working with a few people from Nigeria.Who can I contact to investigate with either party not knowing about this?
[October 29, 2003, 0:22]
Russia Attacks Microsoft Licensing Costs
Talkback M$ should not be allowed to decide what OS you put on a computer. That choice should be up to the consumer. Why should you pay extra for something you aren't going to use?
[February 19, 2007, 15:56]
Bank Scam May Originate From Russia
Talkback Hello We are Russian trading company Hofon Group Ltd. We are looking for business partner from UK. You can earn some cash for the small help in one matter. It is easy. No special actions. Please contact us for more details only by this email: HOFON...
[April 1, 2005, 22:50]
