Neowin News Feed for: Putin

Germany fires cybersecurity chief because of close ties to Russia

Usama Jawad — Wed, 19 Oct 2022 13:34:01 +0000

Germany has sacked its chief of cybersecurity after media allegations that the executive has close ties to a Russian firm with links to president Vladimir Putin. An investigation is underway. Read more...

Putin signs legislative amendment to ban cryptocurrency payments in Russia

Anushe Fawaz — Sat, 16 Jul 2022 14:42:01 +0000

Russia's President Putin signed a law to enact suspension of certain provisions of Federal Law “On Banks and Banking Activity”, and bans the use of digital assets as a payment mode in Russia. Read more...

Facebook takes down Russian accounts targeting African countries

Namerah Saud Fatmi — Wed, 30 Oct 2019 19:30:01 +0000

Social media giant Facebook removed a network of accounts, pages and groups from the platform today. These accounts were run by Russians who hid their identities and meddled in African politics. Read more...

Putin signs VPN ban in Russia, comes into effect from November 1

Shreyas Gandhe — Mon, 31 Jul 2017 18:32:01 +0000

Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed off the ban on virtual private networks and proxies, that was approved by the lower house of the country's parliament last week along with another law. Read more...

Trump discussed with Putin the creation of an "impenetrable Cyber Security unit"

Stergios Georgopoulos — Sun, 09 Jul 2017 18:50:02 +0000

Following the G20 summit, President Trump has revealed on Twitter that he talked to Russian President Vladimir Putin about creating an "impenetrable Cyber Security unit." Read more...

Ethereum inventor met with President Putin at SPIEF 2017

Paul Hill — Wed, 07 Jun 2017 02:46:01 +0000

President Putin met with Ethereum creator, Vitalik Buterin at the SPIEF 2017 event in St. Petersburg, Russia, which took place between the 1st and 3rd of June. Details of the meeting are quite scarce. Read more...

Russia will soon block LinkedIn if company doesn't store user info locally

Vlad Dudau — Fri, 11 Nov 2016 11:26:02 +0000

Russia is on the verge of blocking access to LinkedIn, after the company lost an appeal in court. The Russian ban is based on a recent law which forces companies to store user data locally. Read more...

Obama to Russia, China: Let's not hack each other because the US will win

Vlad Dudau — Tue, 06 Sep 2016 07:02:01 +0000

In a speech in China, the US president called for de-escalation of cyber tensions between major world powers. He suggested governments should stop hacking each other and go after cyber criminals. Read more...

Russian government wants to ban Windows, get more tax dollars from Google, Apple

Vlad Dudau — Wed, 10 Feb 2016 11:32:01 +0000

The Russian government wants to force US technology companies like Apple and Google to pay taxes on apps and services sold online. It also wants to ban Windows from government machines. Read more...

Russia prime suspect in German parliament cyber breach

Vlad Dudau — Thu, 04 Jun 2015 10:23:57 +0000

Russia is the prime suspect in what looks like a state-sponsored cyber attack upon the German parliament. The Bundestag's network was compromised and data was transferred outside of the country. Read more...

Google, Facebook and Twitter battle Russia over censorship

Vlad Dudau — Sat, 27 Dec 2014 10:14:01 +0000

The giant US internet companies Google, Facebook and Twitter are currently at odds with the Kremlin over censorship requests made by the government and ignored by the giant social networks. Read more...

Russia wants Facebook, Google, Twitter to comply with censorship laws

Vlad Dudau — Fri, 26 Sep 2014 19:56:02 +0000

In a move that's in-line with previous rumors, Internet companies are being pressured by the Russian government to comply with censorship and data storage laws if they want to continue doing business. Read more...