The Russian Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technology, and Mass Media (Roskomnadzor) will not block access to YouTube, the Head of the department Alexander Zharov said.
YouTube refused the watchdog’s request to delete a video of an investigation by opposition leader Alexey Navalny which contained accusations of corruption...
Cyber attacks cost the United States between $57 billion and $109 billion in 2016, a White House report said Friday, warning of a "spillover" effect for the broader economy if the situation worsens.
According to Engadget, the report by the White House Council of Economic Advisers sought to quantify what...
Facebook says it is doubling its security staff to 20,000 and actively working with the FBI to stop election interference by Russians and others, The Associated Press reported.
The company's statement is in response to the indictment of 13 Russians and three Russian organizations by federal prosecutors. The charges shed...
Using the SWIFT international payments messaging system, unknown hackers stole $6 million from a Russian bank last year, the Russian central bank said on Friday.
The disclosure, buried at the bottom of a central bank report on digital thefts in the Russian banking sector, is the latest in a string...
The United Kingdom has blamed Russia for a "malicious" cyberattack last summer that disrupted companies across Europe, warning that the West will not tolerate such activities, The Guardian reports.
The Foreign Office said on Thursday that “the Russian government, specifically the Russian military,” was responsible for the so-called NotPetya ransomware attack in...
A Russian citizen was sentenced to 12 years in prison on Wednesday for his role in a computer hacking scheme that compromised more than 160 million credit card numbers and caused around $311 million in damages, NJ.com reports.
Vladimir Drinkman, 37, of Syktyvkar, Russia, who was arrested in the Netherlands...
Cybersecurity firm Kaspersky Lab has filed a lawsuit targeting the second of two federal bans on its products. The latest suit goes after language in a defense law explicitly blocking the purchase of Kaspersky products. An earlier suit targets a Homeland Security directive doing the same, Law reports.
With Washington reluctant...
Russia has threatened to shut down YouTube and Instagram unless they agree to remove a video accusing the deputy prime minister Sergei Prikhodko of corruption, The New York Times reports.
On Saturday, the government’s media and telecommunications watchdog agency, known as Roskomnadzor, ordered YouTube to remove seven videos and ordered Instagram...
The Trump administration is planning to privatize the International Space Station instead of simply decommissioning the orbiting international experiment in 2024, according to a report in The Washington Post.
According to a document obtained by the Post, the current administration is mulling handing the International Space Station off to private...
A group of Russian nuclear scientists was arrested after it was discovered they used a top-secret supercomputer to mine cryptocurrency.
The scientists were apprehended after allegedly connecting the high-end machine to the internet to use it for “personal purposes,” including cryptocurrency mining, according to Russian news agency Interfax.
The Federal Nuclear Center...
