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Tonight, due to the unscheduled work in Kazakhstan, about 20 websites of the state bodies will be inaccessible for almost a day, the press service of the JSC National Information Technologies (NIT) reported. The need to introduce such a …
The Russian State Duma has passed the first reading of legislation that is designed to ensure the operation of the Internet in Russia if access to servers located abroad is cut off. The legislation is co-authored by chair of the …
Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov briefly regained access to his Instagram account yesterday, after being blocked from the platform for nearly a year. Kadyrov was one of a number of individuals sanctioned under the US's …
European Union plans to impose fines over terrorist propaganda
Russian president Vladimir Putin has fired his main adviser on Internet issues German Klimenko, according to the order posted on the Kremlin website on June 13. In a post to his Facebook page, …
Russia's state industrial corporation Rostec has unveiled a local analogue of telecom application Skype, system AVES-S, for the government and business, Rostec said in a statement. AVES-S has a very high level of information …
Russian Minister of Communications and Mass Media Nikolai Nikiforov has not ruled out that another popular messenger Viber could be blocked if the Federal Security Service has problems with obtaining encryption keys. …
Tehran has banned all government bodies from using foreign-based messaging apps to communicate with citizens, state media reported. "All government agencies, public and non-governmental institutions are obliged to transfer all …
Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov has heard nothing about any plans the Kremlin might be considering to launch an equivalent of China’s firewall that would allow for isolating the Russian segment of the world web …
Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said that he would no longer use the messaging app Telegram. The announcement came as rumours continued that Iran would soon block Telegram, built by Russian tech guru …
Moscow’s Tagansky’s court satisfied the demand of Russia’s telecommunications watchdog and blocked access to the Telegram messenger in Russia over its failure to furnish keys to the Federal Security Service to decrypt user …
An undercover investigation by Channel 4 News reveals how British firm Cambridge Analytica secretly campaigns in elections across the world. The admissions were filmed at a series of meetings at London hotels over four …
The NAC on the principle of 'non-contact involvement' in the terrorist activities
There is a new botnet targeting Android devices by scanning for open debug ports so it can infect victims with malware that mines the Monero cryptocurrency, Bleeping Computer reported. The botnet came to life on February 3, and is …
Cybersecurity is among the issues being raised on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum, now in full swing in Davos. Russia's Kaspersky Lab appears to appreciate the significance of the agenda as it has warned of a yet new IT threat …
Wikipedia removed fabricated content falsely associating Turkey with terror groups after being blocked for almost nine months in the country, the executive director of the Wikimedia Foundation Katherine Maher said. …
Filtering on Telegram and Instagram social networks is temporary and will end on January 5, a member of Iranian Parliament's National Security and Foreign Policy Commission Alireza Rahimi said. Rahimi made the …
Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev ratified the amendments to the laws "on information and communication issues" banning anonymous comment on the Kazakh websites. According to the president's …
More than 1.6 million Dagestani residents registered on the State Service portal, which is about 70% of the republic's population. According to this indicator, the region has risen by 74 positions among the subjects of the Russian Federation, …
As a result of large-scale optimization and improvement works, the Nar Mobile mobile operator has provided the customers with a possibility to use the 4G (LTE) services not only in Baku and Absheron peninsula, but in the country’s other …
