Saturday, May 18, 2024
In an effort to provide convenience to soccer fans flocking to the Russian city of Kaliningrad this summer for the World Cup, a hotel company has decided to start accepting payments in cryptocurrency, CCN reports. According to Russian website Buying Business Travel, Apartments Malina located in Kaliningrad will accept cryptocurrency payments...
A Russian-made drone being tested for package delivery by Russia's postal service crashed into a building just seconds after making its debut, Reuters reports. The drone, which was being tested in the Siberian city of Ulan-Ude, is part of an effort announced two years ago by the national mail and parcel...
Czech Republic's extradition to the United States of Yevgeny Nikulin, a Russian charged with hacking U.S. tech companies, appeared to be aimed at damaging ties between Moscow and Prague, Russia's Foreign Ministry said on Monday, according to RIA news agency. 29-year-old Nikulin was arrested in Prague in 2016. He was extradited to...
The trial of the Russian programmer Pyotr Levashov, accused of computer fraud by American authorities, has been postponed until December, his attorney Igor Litvak told RIA news agency. "The judge postponed the start of the trial due to the complexity of the case, neither the defense nor the prosecutor's office is ready...
An alleged Russian hacker wanted by both Washington and Moscow has been extradited to the United States, Reuters reported. Yevgeny Nikulin is accused of hacking big Internet companies including LinkedIn and Dropbox in 2012 and 2013. In the United States, he faces up to 30 years in prison if convicted on...
Russia’s RT television network is going off the air in the Washington, D.C., area, one of the channel’s most coveted markets in the United States, Bloomberg reported. The pro-Kremlin English language news channel, described by U.S. intelligence agencies as part of Moscow’s “state-run propaganda machine,” will still be available via satellite,...
British businessmen are being given a secret MI5 handbook to help them avoid being caught in "honeytraps" when working in Russia or China, The Irish Independent reports. Some of the UK's biggest firms have received the booklet, which warns that getting drunk, gambling or womanizing could see them targeted amid...
Online messaging service Viber has refused to provide codes needed to read users’ electronic messages to Russia’s Federal Security Service, or the FSB, RBC business daily says. Viber Media S.a.r.I., a subsidiary of Japan’s Rakuten, which owns one of the most popular messengers in Russia, is ready to cooperate...
Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg says his company is locked in a tech race to stop future Russian election meddling, Newsweek reports. He said the social media giant needed to “get in front” of secret plots to sway millions of voters and destabilize democracies around the world. The social networking giant was thrust...
European nations are on the lookout for possible Russian cyberattacks on energy installations, after the United States last week warned that Russia has hacked into a number of public and private companies in the energy sector, including power plants. A spokesperson for the European Commission told Forbes that while they cannot...