Russian President Vladimir Putin has passed an executive order banning the purchase of foreign software for use in critical infrastructure projects by the state agencies and semi-government entities, in an apparent bid to make the country less vulnerable to further Western sanctions and potential cyberattacks.
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Tech giants reportedly served up data to hackers pretending to be law enforcement Apple and Facebook’s parent company Meta were persuaded to give up customer data to hackers posing as law enforcement agents bearing phony “emergency data requests,” Bloomberg revealed on Wednesday, citing three sources familiar with the matter. The fraudulently obtained information allegedly included…
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On March 4, 2022, Roskomnadzor (Federal Service for Supervision in the Sphere of Telecom, Information Technologies and Mass Communications) blocked Facebook social network in Russia. Little bit later the Prosecutor General’s Office demanded to recognize Meta (that manages Facebook, Instagram* and Whatsapp) as an extremist organization and blocked Instagram in Russia.
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