Russia
Microsoft warns US Government of Facial Recognition Use abuse
For the first time in history, Microsoft which is a top American technology company has come into open to criticize the use of facial recognition technology by the US government. It says the abuse of the technology will create hurdles to the law of protecting people’s privacy and freedom of expression. In a blog post […]
No Cyber Attacks on FIFA World Cup 2018
Just a few hours ago the final match of FIFA World Cup 2018 was conducted in Russia’s Luzgniki Stadium between France and Croatia and it was France which bagged the World Cup Football 2018 title for the second time. No doubt the game was thrilling even though most of the time the ball was shuffled […]
Russia creates its own Domain Name System Internet
Russia which is being led by Vladimir Putin for the 4th time has announced that it has almost completed the creation of an alternative to “Domain Name System” AKA DNS. In technical terms, DNS is nothing but a phone book which converts numerical IP addresses into readable text like Facebook.com and Youtube.com. The implementation date […]
Russian hackers break into Gmail accounts of US Officials
Russia sponsored hacking group named Fancy Bear is found to be hacking into the Gmail accounts of many US officials- all a part of cyber an espionage campaign. And its said that FBI knew about this interception, but couldn’t disclose it to the world for various reasons. Cybersecurity firm SecureWorks has brought this fact into […]
Vladimir Putin urges the world to fend off cyber attacks on a collective note
All these days we have seen many nations including the US, UK, and Ukraine alleging that Russia and its leader Vladimir Putin have malicious intentions to launch cyber attacks on developed countries in order to create a political instability in the respective nations which would help the Russian federation emerge as a world leader in […]
Russia tries to hijack Mexico elections via DDoS Cyber Attack
Vladimir Putin led Russia is accused of interfering in the elections of Mexico after a political party from the said region announced publicly that its website was hacked by state-funded actors. The National Action Party (PAN-Partido Accion Nacional in Spanish) had its website shut down during the final televised debate in early June this year. […]
Australia appoints the task force to defend its Elections from Cyber Attacks
The Government of Australia has appointed an Electoral Integrity Task Force to defend its next month’s electoral system from cyber attacks. As Federal elections around the world are prone to state-funded cyber attacks from certain nations (Russia and China), the Australian government has taken the decision to protect the sanctity of the election system and […]
Russian hackers infect 500,000 routers to launch a massive cyber attack on Ukraine
Cisco Systems Inc on Wednesday issued a warning that says hackers from Russia have infected over 500,000 routers including storage devices in order to launch a massive cyber attack on Ukraine. The Networking giant stressed on the fact that the attack will be of Denial of service attack genre and will be mainly targeting Ukraine’s […]
UK decides to name and shame Countries which are behind cyber attacks
The United Kingdom has finally decided to name and shame all those countries which are trying to launch or have launched cyber attacks on its critical infrastructure. The names include Russia, North Korea, and other states which are alleged to be behind the cyber assaults on Britain’s infrastructure on a previous note. UK’s Attorney General […]