Microsoft will run a 30-day ad campaign in Russian newspapers Delovoy Peterburg and The Moscow News in an effort to notify the parties responsible for the Rustock botnet that the botnet has been shut down and that they are being summoned to court, the company reported in its blog on Monday.
Trend Micro, a security solutions provider headquartered in Tokyo, announced that it has received a certificate for its Enterprise Security 10.0 software suite from Russia’s Federal Service for Technical and Export Control (FSTEC), as reported earlier this week by IKS Consulting, a firm studying the Russian IT and telecom markets.
An original event took place last week in Moscow: Positive Hack Days — an international forum on practical information-security issues that aimed to “unite hackers and information security companies so that they could understand how much they need each other.” In addition to roundtables and masterclasses on a wide range of information security issues, the …
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Federal Security Service (FSB) senior official Alexander Andreyechkin complained last Friday during a government meeting that “the uncontrollable use of Gmail, Hotmail, and Skype [in particular] could lead to a major threat to Russia’s security.” FSB is “more and more concerned about these services using foreign-made cryptographic means” that Russia’s security services cannot access, he added.
Pirate Pay, a startup from Perm, and Ajatix, another one from Volgograd, have both received grant funding from the Microsoft Seed Finance Fund. The fund aims to provide direct financial support to startups in the areas of software and SaaS services. The fund was created in November 2010 in partnership with Skolkovo, the state sponsored …
With revenues exceeding 81 billion rubles (approximately $2.87 billion) in 2010, National Computer Corporation (NCC) confirmed its status as the biggest player on the Russian IT market, reports CNews.ru, an online news portal specialized in IT.
After compiling a list of the “Top 50 Most Innovative Companies” worldwide last month, which included Yandex and Kaspersky Lab, U.S. business magazine Fast Company has now issued a ranking of the “Ten Most Innovative Companies in Russia.”
Two Russian IT giants, Yandex, the leading Russian-language search engine, and Kaspersky Lab, a leading developer of IT security and threat management solutions, have been ranked among the Top 50 Most Innovative Companies worldwide by U.S. business magazine Fast Company. Yandex took the 26th place in the ranking and Kaspersky Lab the 32nd.
General Atlantic, a US-based private equity fund, has bought a large stake in Kaspersky Lab. Though no details of the deal have been disclosed by the parties, it is known that General Atlantic has become the second-largest shareholder in the Russian computer security company. Evgeny Kaspersky, who owns a controlling stake in the firm, will …
