The Russian interior ministry has offered a bounty of just under four million roubles (£66,000) for information that allows the government to track users of the Tor browser anonymising network. It's believed that the authorities were keen to not only find out who's using the technology and what hardware they're …
Read More »Ukranians crowdfund military drone-tech for army
Ukraine's current relationship with its neighbours in the East hasn't been the most care-free as of late, with tension and hostilities rising from both local and Russian camps. The problem on the Ukrainian side of things though, is that there's no budget to equip its soldiers, leading many to have …
Read More »Google floods Russia, Putin pro gay messaging everywhere
Across Eurasia, around 300 million Russian speaking folks will have powered up their favourite search engine to be treated to a peacock display of pro-gay messaging. Has any country's state policy ever backfired so badly and so publicly? KitGuru looks for rainbows in the skies over rain-drenched Blighty. Some battles …
Read More »Edward Snowden accepts temporary Russian asylum
Edward Snowden, the NSA contractor who leaked documents pertaining to the NSA's PRISM campaign and set off a worldwide revelation of how much governments are able to keep track of their citizens, has been granted asylum in Russia by President Putin, on the condition that he stops leaking U.S. secrets. …
Read More »How Russia and the US are avoiding a digital cold war
Russia and the USA spent a large part of the 20th century in a stand off of global proportions. Posturing went back and forth, spies and information wars were won and lost but ultimately there was no out and out conflict, most likely because neither party really wanted to go …
Read More »In Russia, cyber crime is cheap
Whether you're looking to hire a hacker for an hour, or have someone spammed, maybe you want a botnet of your very own, or a trojan that lets you take over a particular computer? All of this can be had for at most, a few hundred pounds – all you …
Read More »Anonymous hits Pussy Riot court website
Internet hacktivist movement Anonymous, has shown how it feels about the recent conviction of Russian anti-government protesters, the band Pussy Riot, by defacing the website of the court that sentenced them. To show their dissaproval at the outcome of the trial, the Anons posted a video of the latest single …
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