Putin wants his own internet
Then we can control people better
Word on the street is that the Tsar of all the Russias, Vladimir Putin, thinks that his empire would better off it had an internet he could control.
Russian trolls regret depending on Apple security
IPhone 7 was backdoor for US spooks
Details of the American attack on Russia’s troll factory last year are starting to emerge and it appears that one of the attack vectors was the impossible to hack, super cool, absolutely secure iPhone.
Russians desperately seeking Swedish tech
Spy arrested
The Swedish domestic security agency says a person has been arrested on suspicion of having been recruited by Russia to carry out “illegal intelligence activities against Sweden”.
US cyber warriors took out Russian troll farm
A pre-emptive strike during the 2018 mid-term elections
US Cyber Command launched an attack on the Internet Research Agency in St. Petersburg that shut down the group’s internet on the day of the 2018 midterm elections.
Are Putin’s teams out to slow down 5G adoption?
Fake news targeting 5G
Conspiracy nuts are starting to target 5G development based on what Infowars and Russian backed fake news sites are telling them.
Russian hackers tried to discredit Mueller probe
Stole evidence and then edited it
Russian hackers attempted to gather evidence to discredit the investigation into the involvement of President Putin in getting Donald (Prince of Orange) elected in 2016.
Russian hackers had another crack at the DMC
Hoping to repeat their success in getting their candidate elected
Russian hackers had a crack at the US DMC servers during the last mid-term elections in the hope of repeating their success in getting their presidential candidate elected.
Facebook slashes more Russian accounts
Some linked to state-owned news agency Sputnik
Facebook has removed hundreds of Russia-initiated accounts, which it judged to be involved in coordinated inauthentic behaviour on its platforms.
FCC claims Russia meddled in net neutrality debate
Apparently, they were in favour of it
FCC Chairman Ajit Pai has admitted that around 500,000 comments submitted during the net neutrality public comment period were linked to Russian email addresses.
Russians were pulling Facebook data
UK Commons committee has discovered
A UK Commons committee chair said that a seized trove of Facebook documents reveals that a company engineer flagged Russian "entities" using a Pinterest API to pull billions of points of Facebook data every day in 2014.