117 of millions of passwords and messages of users of LinkedIn are laid out in the network

An unknown hacker under the pseudonym Peace put up for sale on an illegal website on the Internet millions of accounts of the social network LinkedIn, which were hacked back in 2012. Then LinkedIn management agreed to pay its users compensation for passwords stolen by hackers as a result of...

Russia in second place in the world for information leakage

According to the results of the first half of 2015, Russia ranked second in the world in the number of confidential information leaks on the Internet. For six months of 2015, according to the study, 59 cases of leakage of confidential information from Russian companies and government organizations were registered. Among the companies that have suffered from leaks over the past six months are MTS, VTB-24, ...

Tajikistan introduced a state monopoly on official information

Media operating in Tajikistan are now required to refer to the national news agency Khovar, which will receive all official press releases and statements from government bodies of the republic, according to the official minutes of the government meeting signed by the country's President Emomali Rahmon. “All government departments must...

Russian TV channels increased funding

On Monday, the State Duma approved a series of amendments to the budget law, providing, among other things, for the allocation of additional funds to Channel One OJSC and the VGTRK holding. The author of the amendment on additional financing of state channels, head of the Duma Committee on Information Policy Leonid Levin, believes that the aggravated international situation...

Search engines make us consider ourselves smarter than we really are.

Many search engines like Google or Yahoo! make people think they are smarter than they really are. Psychologists from Yale University (USA) found that this happens because people are just superficially familiar with information. Searching the Internet gives ...

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