The Tor Project has called on its community to set up more WebTunnel bridges as it says Russian authorities are clamping down on its anti-censorship network.
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Elon Musk has been in regular contact with Vladimir Putin since 2022. It appears to be a closely held secret in government, a new WSJ report claims.
The Microsoft Threat Analysis Center says state actors based in Russia, Iran, and China are continuing to spread misinformation online about the upcoming US presidential election.
Turkey has officially banned access to the messaging platform Discord due to concerns over illegal content sharing.
Ahead of its official debut, the M4 MacBook Pro is already up for sale on a Russian classifieds website.
Russia has blocked Discord for failing to remove illegal content, according to the country's telecom regulator.
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Microsoft has confirmed that it has informed more of its customers that emails they sent to Microsoft's corporate employees were accessed by Russia-based hackers earlier this year.
The US could ban Kaspersky anti virus sales on Thursday, according to people with knowledge of the matter. The US government believes Kaspersky is poses a significant security threat.
European space mission ExoMars began in 2001. However, it came close to being canceled due to repeated delays and war in Ukraine. A new partnership with NASA aims to finally send the rover into space.
The Microsoft Threat Analysis Center (MTAC) has issued another report on possible efforts by Russia state-sponsored hackers who are posting misinformation on US social media channels.
The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency confirmed this week that the recent Microsoft attack from Russian hackers stole emails between the company and the US government.
Russian semiconductor company Baikal was forced to switch to domestic partners for the packaging of its chips due to the war. However, the rate of defective products is at ridiculously high levels.
Microsoft has posted an update on the discovery that a Russian hacker group accessed its corporate email accounts. Apparently, it used the information to breach Microsoft's source code repositories.
Roskomnadzor, the Russian internet censorship machine, listed the Steam community website among those banned in the country. However, once the word spread, the domain disappeared from the blacklist.
The US Department of Justice announced this week that a criminal botnet set up by Russian hackers that used hundreds of home and small office routers has now been shut down by court order.
Ukrainian intelligence confirmed that Russians are using Starlink at the front line in Ukraine. SpaceX denies a possibility that the Russian military obtained its terminals legally.
Yandex, Russia's largest Internet company, has agreed to sell most of its Russian operations to a consortium. The deal marks Yandex NV's exit from Russia amid tensions over the invasion of Ukraine.
Microsoft announced in a regulatory filing on Friday that a Russian intelligence group called Nobelium hacked into the email accounts of some of the company's top executives in November 2023
Recently some Western companies including Google were relieved of some fines imposed by Russians. Out of these, Telegram commented that it was unaware of the reasons why the charges were dropped.
We don't have a busy launch schedule this week in terms of rocket launches. China will launch an unknown payload while Russia will launch a group of astronauts to the International Space Station.
STC IT ROSA, a Russian IT firm, has been developing a made-in-Russia phone. The head of APPSIM has leaked purported details about the phone on its Telegram channel with photos and videos.
Google was fined after failing to remove an alleged fake news video about the Russia-Ukraine conflict from YouTube, a Russian district court ruled after the company broke its administrative laws.
This week, Virgin Galactic will send several private astronauts to the edge of space and Russia will send a spacecraft to the Lunar south pole. There are many other launches coming this week too.
Microsoft discovers a phishing attack by a Russian-backed hacker group. They are using compromised Microsoft 365 accounts to pose as tech support in Teams. The group targets govts, NGOs, and more.
A cybersecurity team found a new Mac malware on the Dark Web forum using ChatGPT prompts. It prices up to $60,000 and can gain full access to a target's machine. Apple didn't immediately respond.
Following sanctions on Russia over its invasion of Ukraine, gaming piracy levels have rocketed. Research has found that 7 in 10 gamers have engaged in game piracy over the last year.
We have just two rocket launches coming up this week. One will include a Falcon 9 carrying ESA's Euclid space telescope into orbit where it will map the universe across a third of the sky.
Kremlin's concerns about US technology continue. Russia alleges the NSA used Apple iPhone vulnerabilities to spy on officials and civilians. And officials in Russia urged to stop using iPhones.
The Department of Justice has opened an investigation into Binance for helping Russians skirt the US sanctions. This is not the first time Binance has come under fire for violating sanctions.
Finish newspaper Helsingin Sanomat leaking the Ukraine war atrocities to Russians through a secret room. It created a map for Counter-Strike: Global Offensive with a hidden underground room.
American technology giant Microsoft Corporation sent out letters to around 1,000 Russian companies that are not under sanctions to renew their licenses of its software amidst the ongoing crisis.
Xiaomi has hit back at Ukraine's assertion that it's an international sponsor of war. The Chinese company said that the phones it sells in Russia are for civilian and commercial use only.
We've got a busy week of rocket launches coming up next week. SpaceX, China, Russia, and India all have missions planned. It'll mostly be satellite launches, however, so nothing too exciting!
In response to allegations, Meta has shared some details about its content moderation mechanism to deny claims that its review process censors Ukrainian content while allowing Russian propaganda.
Russian courts have recently issued a $57,000 fine to Amazon-owned Twitch for failing to remove content about its military campaign in Ukraine which it reportedly says is falsified.
This week, SpaceX is set to carry out two launches and the Russian space agency will carry one out too. In this week's recap, we got footage of the Mitsubishi H-IIA rocket launching a satellite.
Ever since Intel and Microsoft withdrew from Russian markets following the invasion of Ukraine, citizens who wanted to download drivers and other software have faced difficulty until today.
MSI has confirmed that there is indeed a funding-related issue due to the ongoing Russia-Ukraine conflict. As a result, the development of the extremely popular MSI Afterburner tool has been stalled.
Google has rolled out tools to Search to help people in Europe with the ongoing energy crisis. It includes news on the matter, local guidance, and steps you can take to cut usage and save money.
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Microsoft is pledging continued support for Ukraine since its conflict with Russia started in late February. The software giant will provide additional technology aid valued at roughly $100 million.
