Russia’s state-owned electric grid company Rosseti has launched a pilot for a blockchain solution by Waves Enterprise in retail payments, CoinTelegraph reports.
The trial aims to address discrepancies owing to meter reading errors, which result in non-payment of bills, Rosetti said. Waves claims that the total debt for electricity as of September 1,...
Two suspected Russian hackers have been brought to criminal responsibility for mining cryptocurrencies through infected computers in state organizations, RBC reported on Monday.
Nikolay Murashov, Deputy Director of the National Coordination Center for Computer Incidents, told a press conference on Monday:
"In Russia, there have been two cases recently when people...
Russia-focused U.S. company Fort Ross Ventures has made an investment in multinational technology firm Kryon that is expected to boost the use of its automation solutions by Russian businesses, ComNews reports.
Kryon has developed a platform that comprises process discovery and robotic process automation (RPA) tools. The platform is used...
In 2019, system administrators stole about a third of the personal information sold on DarkNet. The Izvestia newspaper writes about a new leak method based on a study by DeviceLock, a cybersecurity company.
According to Radio Sputnik, IT specialists came under suspicion due to unloading from access control systems, presence...
An ongoing corporate dispute surrounding U.S.-based webserver Nginx has already affected the IT market and damaged the government’s development goals, the Kremlin’s special representative on digital and technological development Dmitry Peskov said on Friday, according to RBC.
"Here’s my personal stance regarding Nginx. Those developments have already dealt a major...
Russia has become the third most developed market in the world, as more than 80% of the country’s citizens use some sort of fintech service, a new study by Ernst & Young has revealed, according to bne Intellinews.
The most popular financial service among Russians are money transfers and payments,...
The Moscow office of tech company Ngynx was raided by police on Thursday after the ownership of the popular web server's source code was disputed, ZDNet reports.
Ngynx (pronounced "Engine-X") was acquired earlier this year by U.S.-based F5 Networks.
NGINX cofounders Igor Sysoev and Maxim Konovalov were detained during the reported raid,...
The biggest bank in Russia, state-owned Sberbank, said on Wednesday it saw the potential for companies in which it owns direct or indirect stakes to hold initial public offerings in the next three to five years, RIA Novosti reported.
Some of these companies include Yandex.market, Visionlabs, Rambler, Citymobil and Delivery Club.
The lender’s...
The Russian Satellite Communications Company (RSCC), the country’s main state operator of communications satellites, has signed a cooperation deal with Azerbaijan’s Azercosmos, which is the sole satellite operator in the South Caucasus, AzerNews reports.
The agreement, which includes cooperation in the field of satellite communications and broadcasting services, was signed...
A Soyuz-2.1a carrier rocket that blasted off from the Baikonur spaceport delivered a Progress MS-13 cargo craft into the near-Earth orbit, Russia’s Roscosmos state space corporation reported in a live broadcast on its website on Friday, TASS informs.
"The spacecraft’s separation from the carrier rocket’s third stage completed," the space...
