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Ukraine accuses Russia of attack on president's website after web sanctions
KIEV (Reuters) – Ukraine accused Russia on Tuesday of carrying out an organised cyber attack on President Petro Poroshenko’s website in response to Kiev’s decision to impose sanctions against a number of major Russian internet businesses. …read more Source: The...
Ukraine president's office accuses Russia of attack on presidential website
KIEV (Reuters) – The office of Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko accused Russia on Tuesday of carrying out an organised cyber attack on his website in response to Kiev’s decision to impose sanctions against a number of major Russian internet businesses. …read more Source: The...
Ukraine president's office accuses Russia of attack on presidential website
KIEV (Reuters) – The office of Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko accused Russia on Tuesday of carrying out an organised cyber attack on his website in response to Kiev’s decision to impose sanctions against a number of major Russian internet businesses. …read more Source: The...
Ukraine blocks Russia’s top social media networks
KIEV: Ukraine on Tuesday blocked Russia’s most popular social media networks and an internet search engine in response to the Kremlin’s alleged backing of a three-year separatist war in the east. The decision sparked an immediate outcry from Ukrainian internet users and freedom of speech advocates. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov...
No ‘clean slate’ between the US and Russia, Tillerson says
WASHINGTON: Relations between the United States and Russia, at their lowest level since the Cold War, will not restart “with a clean slate,” Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said on Sunday. The former ExxonMobil CEO, who was decorated in 2013 by Russian President Vladimir Putin, had said previously that the relationship between the two nuclear...
Portuguese crooner wins Eurovision as conflict mars Kiev’s party
KIEV: Portugal won the Eurovision Song Contest for the first time ever early Sunday with a melancholy ballad performed by a singer who suffers from a serious heart condition. The fado-tinged song “Amar Pelos Dois” was performed by 27-year-old Salvador Sobral, who is awaiting a heart transplant. It scored a crushing victory, winning...
Businesses bolster cyber defenses for new ransomware attacks
TORONTO: Businesses around the world scrambled on Saturday to prepare for a renewed cyber attack, convinced that a lull in a computer offensive that has stopped car factories, hospitals, schools and other organizations in around 100 countries was only temporary. The pace of the attack by a destructive virus dubbed WannaCry slowed late on Friday,...
Global cyber attack fuels concern about U.S. vulnerability disclosures
WASHINGTON: A global cyber attack on Friday renewed concerns about whether the U.S. National Security Agency and other countries’ intelligence services too often hoard software vulnerabilities for offensive purposes, rather than quickly alerting technology companies to such flaws. Hacking tools believed to belong to the NSA that were leaked...
Global cyberattack disrupts shipper FedEx, UK health system
LONDON/MADRID: A global cyberattack leveraging hacking tools widely believed by researchers to have been developed by the U.S. National Security Agency hit international shipper FedEx, disrupted Britain’s health system and infected computers in nearly 100 countries on Friday. Russian cyber security software maker Kaspersky Lab said its...
Trump urges peace between Russia and Ukraine
The White House is left fuming after Russia publishes photos of Donald Trump meeting Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov (R). AFP photo WASHINGTON: Donald Trump urged Russia and Ukraine to “make peace,” in a tweet accompanied by two photos of the US president posing with top diplomats from the rival countries. “Yesterday, on the same day – I...
