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German Government Advises Companies to Stop Using Kaspersky Anti-Virus
With the ongoing situation between Russia and Ukraine, international attention has clearly been focused on the conflict and especially so in the tech world with various limitations and suspensions going in both directions. Following a report via BleepingComputer, however, the German Government has just issued a rather stark and certainly…
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Russia May Be Changing Laws to Legalise Software Piracy!
Following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine late last month, in terms of the tech world the news has been pretty much dominated with companies effectively announcing that they were either suspending support or hardware supplies to the country until, basically, the war comes to a peaceful end. I’d list off the…
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Ukraine Calls for Microsoft and Sony to Withdraw Support From Russia
A significant portion of the technology community has already come forward in support of Ukraine following their invasion by Russian forces last week. Although their methods have varied, the bottom line is that a pretty big number of major companies has either withdrawn stock intended for shipment to Russia or,…
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AMD, Intel, TSMC, and More Suspend Tech Supplies/Support to Russia!
Following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine last week, rather than choosing to escalate the situation through the direct deployment of armed forces, most Western countries have instead chosen the economic sanctions path in order to attempt to bring some sanity back to the situation. Primarily driven by America, Europe, and Asia,…
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Bitcoin Donors Send Over $13.7M to Ukraine! – But Scams Also Appear!
Following Russia launching its invasion of Ukraine last week, the situation in the region has clearly been more than a little distressing. Admittedly, it’s significantly more so for the people actually living there, but the international community is generally appalled at what they mostly view as an unprovoked act of…
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New Ransomware Attacks Reported in Russia and Ukraine
Ransomware on the rise again! If you were to ask someone this time last year ‘what is ransomware’ the likelihood is that they wouldn’t know. In truth, I didn’t become entirely aware of it myself until a friends PC got affected. It was, however, at this point that I realized…
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Meet iPhone 7 – The Man Who Changed His Name to Win a Phone
It might be hard to believe, but it is true. A Ukranian man has legally changed his name to iPhone 7 and there’s actually a somewhat valid reason behind it. An electronics store offered the latest Apple phone to the first five people who would legally change their name to…
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Third Hack Linked To SWIFT Network Costs $10 Million
In this day and age, people like to know that their bank is keeping their money safe. Sadly in this day and age where everything is connected that is harder to do than most would imagine and it would now seem that a third bank has linked a theft to…
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Hackers Reportedly Responsible for Ukraine Power Cuts
Back in December 2015, 225 thousand people in Ukraine were without power, which a US report has now blamed on hackers. This would make it the first known successful hack against utilities. The report was created by the US Department of Homeland Security, based on a number of interviews with…
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Google Translates Russia as “Mordor”
Google Translate is an extremely useful albeit slightly confusing tool at times, the freedom to translate any foreign web page or language with a degree of accuracy has been widely used by a huge array of consumers and companies alike. However, there are instances when Google translates something completely different…
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Ukrainian Hackers Helped US Insider Trader Earn $100 Million in Illegal Profits
An unlikely union between a bunch of Ukrainian hackers and unscrupulous US stock traders yielded profits of up to $100 million through illegal insider trading. The hackers stole confidential press releases, which it then made available to traders, over the course of five years, US authorities have revealed. Nine people…
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Apple Ends Sale of Products in Crimea
Following the announcement that they would be terminating developer programmes in the region, Apple has now announced that it will cease the sale of its products in Crimea starting February 1st. The company informed resellers in a later, declaring their compliance with US sanctions on the region. “With reference made…
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Watch: Drone Flight Over Chernobyl
Cameraman Danny Cooke, working on a report for CBS News, has shared this amazing montage of footage largely taken with a drone, from the devastated town of Pripyat – the site of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Station Disaster. Cooke managed to capture the radiation riddled ruins of Pripyat in a way like…
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JPMorgan Customers Target in Huge Phishing Campaign
JPMorgan, the No. 1 U.S. bank by assets, has confirmed that spammers have launched a phishing campaign targeting its customers. The spam-campaign is dubbed Smash and Grab and was launched on Tuesday by an unknown group. It however bears the resemblance of Eastern European cybercrime gangs and most of the…
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Wikipedia Entry Regarding MH17 Crash Reportedly Edited by the Russian Government
Changes spotted by a Twitter bot which monitors Wikipedia edits from Russian government IP addresses indicate that an Internet user revised a Wikipedia entry regarding Malaysia Airlines Flight 17. Since the bot monitors government IPs, the only conclusion drawn is that someone within the Russian government wanted to make some…
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