Faced with the decision over whether to adhere to its standard of protecting user content or to help safeguard the integrity of U.S. elections, Facebook says it has chosen the… Read More
A new analysis by Facebook into whether Russia tried to interfere with last fall’s U.S. presidential election by purchasing ads on the social media network has found a connection between… Read More
For more than a year, Microsoft has been working to shut down the hacking group Fancy Bear, believed to have ties to the Russian government, through what some might consider… Read More
Russian cybersecurity company Kaspersky Lab said it has filed complaints with regulators in Germany as well as the European Union as a whole against Microsoft, alleging the Redmond, Wash. technology… Read More
Vladimir Putin has been far more visible lately with statements on the Russian-U.S. election story. Well-schooled in the art of Russian linguistic vaguery, he has alternately said that Russian freelance hackers may… Read More
The U.S. Department of Justice has charged four people with ties to Russian intelligence agencies with computer hacking, economic espionage and other criminal offenses in connection with hacking Yahoo’s network and email… Read More
NASA is considering a convoluted arrangement to reserve five more seats on Russian Soyuz capsules heading to and from the International Space Station, with the Boeing Co. as the middleman.… Read More
Donald Trump is known for a meandering, off-the-cuff verbal style but the president-elect’s first formal press conference since the campaign carried a strong theme throughout. The linchpin? BuzzFeed is the worst.… Read More
Two groups of Russian hackers used a blend of spearphishing, booby-trapped websites and remote-access malware to worm their way into the Democratic National Committee’s computers and hurt the party’s prospects… Read More
A robotic Russian Progress spaceship and its cargo were lost today, minutes after its launch to the International Space Station from Russia’s Baikonur Cosmodrome. Russia’s Roscosmos space agency reported the… Read More
The rivalry between Microsoft and Google might not match the one between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, but it goes back many more years, and it’s surfacing again this week in a story… Read More
With U.S. officials openly blaming Russia for hacker attacks on state election computer systems, and the myriad possibilities for election chaos such attacks raise, it’s important to put them in… Read More
Russian astronomers acknowledge that they picked up an “interesting radio signal” in the course of their search for alien transmissions, but that the signal was most probably a case of… Read More
A federal jury in Seattle convicted a Russian man Thursday of hacking numerous businesses to steal credit card numbers and sell them on the black market. Roman Valerevich Seleznev, 32,… Read More