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Russian DCS World developer Oleg Mikhaylovich Tishchenko was arrested for smuggling fighter jet manuals for the F-16, F-22, and other front-line aircraft in a conspiracy that started back in 2011. The local newspaper where the man was arrested is reporting that he is scheduled to go to trial on...

Metro: Exodus has been called one of the best AAA shooters in recent times by some, and as the developers noted in their "making of" videos, it has a distinctive Russian flair few games outside the Metro series can match. However, if you're in the mood for more, a small Slovakian developer...

During an interview with CNN, former Oculus VR founder Palmer Luckey detailed his vision for national security. After selling his Oculus VR technology to Facebook and leaving the company he founded behind, Palmer Luckey co-founded Anduril Industries in Orange County, California. There his team...

Metro Exodus is set to take the Metro series above ground. So far, we've seen trailers that show off the game's combat and ray-traced scenery, but Ukranian developer 4A Games just published a "Story" trailer for the game. The devs mention that there will be "vast, non linear levels inspired by...

Russia's premier mapping service, Yandex Maps, has started blurring images of all military installations in Israel and Turkey. This includes small military installations in the middle of cities that weren't previously known to be a military property. Now anyone can just look on the Yandex maps...

VG247 reports that production on the Metro 2033 film has halted, and that things weren't exactly going well before. According to the report, MGM acquired the rights to an adaptation of the novel in 2012. But unlike the game, MGM wanted to "Americanise" the script, transplanting the story from...

Nintendo of Russia boss Yasha Haddaji might be in hot water after he lost his cool during an official Mario Kart 8 livestream. The poorly run event was being livestreamed when Yasha Haddaji enters the stage area to complain that it isn't being streamed to a particular Nintendo page. He starts...

A government employee at the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) used his work laptop to search over 9,000 porn web pages while on the U.S. Government's network. These pages were routed through Russian servers and contained malware. An investigation by the Office of lnspector General (OIG) into...

Instagram users are getting hacked and in addition to their passwords being changed; profile pictures are being switched to animated Disney characters. The hackers then change the email address to a Russian .ru domain to completely lock them out. This leaves the user to complain on Twitter...

Last year Reuters published a story that described how foreign defense agencies were given access to source code of software that was also sold to the U.S. military. These agencies were looking for vulnerabilities in the software and this knowledge could be used to hack said software. In...

A couple of weeks ago we reported about a Russian malware (VPNFilter) that was infecting a large number or routers from different vendors. This week I have bad news to report because this malware is far more widespread than originally thought. More vendors have been added to the vulnerable list...

Members of the House intelligence committee have released over 3,500 Facebook ads from the Russians that were placed to cause political division in the United States. There's a little bit of everything there from general issues to specifics like police brutality or promotion of Trump and...

Two years ago we covered a story on how Russia was requiring ISPs to give backdoor access to apps. The encrypted messaging app Telegram, has lost a bid before Russia's Supreme Court to block security services getting access to users' data according to a Bloomberg report. Last year Telegram was...

In a report from international Business Times, a number of Russian nuclear scientists were arrested for allegedly using lab equipment to mine for cryptocurrencies. The report, originally on Russia's Interfax News Agency, said the engineers were working at the All-Russian Research Institute of...

A first of its kind mass drone attack was confirmed by Russia and they say there may be a Ukrainian connection to this attack. The attackers hand-built 13 drones using plastic sheeting/wrap, wood, model airplane engines and other miscellaneous materials. Each of the drones carried 10 bomblets...

For the first time since 2003 the US led the world in space launches last year. Previous to this the Russians were the clear leaders year over year and in 2016 the US tied with China for the lead. What this means is that the US is starting to get back to a leadership role in space exploration...

Kaspersky Labs has filed a lawsuit against the US government for banning use of their software without due process. Kaspersky is suspected of colluding with Russian spy agencies and as a result of their activities the US government elected to ban their products from use within the government...

Last week it was reported that Google was going to derank Russian Media Sites. This week Google has written a letter to Russia's communications watchdog telling them that they don't change their search algorithm to do re-ranking. I think Google is talking out of both sides of their mouth about...

Facebook has announced a portal to enable people to find out which Russian troll pages or Instagram accounts they liked or followed between January 2015 and August 2017. Their reason for doing this is to increase transparency and also to appease Congress as they investigate the issues from the...

It looks like the "it was Russia" drum beating in continuing as always. According to the UK cyber-defense chief Russia has been attacking Britain's media, telecommunications and energy sectors over the past year. As a matter of fact it was reported that one of the attacks targeted the UK's...

On Wednesday, in a security hearing that called both Equifax and Yahoo’s past and present executives to Washington D.C., we’re learning a bit more about what Yahoo didn’t know about the biggest hack in history. So let me see if I can get this right....Yahoo had 500 million, I mean 3 Billion...

A new strain of ransomware called BadRabbit is making the rounds in Russia and other Eastern European nations. This one caused some flight delays at the Odessa airport because workers has to process passenger data manually and affected payment systems in Kiev's metro system. Just goes to show...

Following it's agreement with the Russians Federal Anti-Monopoly Service, Chrome will now bring up a prompt for it's Russian users to choose between Yandex, Google, and **************. Sounds like a good thing to me, monopolies can be quite dangerous. Although I don't feel like this is a monopolistic...

In a press release from the US Department of Justice, a Russian citizen Maxim Senakh was sentenced to 46 months in prison for conspiracy to commit wire fraud and to violate the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. Senakh was using malware to infect tens of thousands of servers in order to generate...

Russia's two legislative bodies have passed a bill that bans the use of Tor, proxies, and VPNs, and is now on the desk of President Putin to get signed into law. Under the new bill Russian ISPs will have to implement the blocks that prevent users from using these services. We covered this back...

In a classified briefing with FBI and Homeland Security officials, the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee reportedly discussed growing concerns in relation to cybersecurity firm Kaspersky Lab. The Moscow, Russia-based company has created these concerns in the Senate due to apparent previous...

A decade-long investigation, 2014 arrest, and lengthy trial have come to a close today as Russian hacker Roman Valerevich Seleznev was sentenced to serve 27 years in U.S. Federal prison. 3,700 financial institutions and 500 business were victimized by the credit card and identity theft ring...

Here's a new one from the "Robot's Will Kill us All" desk. The Russians claim to have developed a humanoid robot capable of shooting dual handed. This one is probably best taken with a grain of salt, as the source, Sputnik, formerly known as "The Voice of Russia" is more or less the official...

If you enjoy seeing malware suspects cuffed, on the floor, and in their underwear, have we got one for you! Russian police just completed their second wave of arrests in a coordinated action to move on the Lurk malware gang, allegedly responsible for using a botnet to target corporate accounts...

Nothing to see here, move along. Oh wait just a friggin minute, this is worth hearing about. The Russian government are requiring Internet service providers to give backdoors in order for the government to collect encryption keys.