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| Peskov reports dozens of hacker attacks on the Kremlin website daily |
| 2024-02-11 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. Moscow, February 10, 2024, 11:08 - IA Regnum. The Kremlin's official website is subject to dozens of hacker attacks every day. Press Secretary of the Russian President Dmitry Peskov announced this on February 10. Answering a question about hackers' attempts to prevent the publication of an interview between American journalist Tucker Carlson and Russian leader Vladimir Putin on kremlin.ru, Peskov said he did not know whether there were any extraordinary attacks. “But dozens of attacks are carried out on the Kremlin website every day. Every day for a year,” said the press secretary of the head of state. In a conversation with TASS, a Kremlin official stressed that, despite constant attacks, the security of the president’s website is ensured at the proper level. He added that to protect the resource, press services work around the clock. As Regnum reported, the Russian Security Council stated that during 2023, foreign intelligence services repeatedly tried to launch cyber attacks on Russian resources. Foreign hackers launched the most dangerous cyber attacks against Russian government facilities, energy, communications, education and science, transport, industry, and the banking sector. Thanks to the measures taken by authorized ghttps://regnum.ru/news/3866287overnment agencies and organizations, disruption of the functioning of Russian information resources was prevented. The head of the department of security problems in the information sphere of the Security Council apparatus, Alexei Petrov, said that hackers are constantly attacking the information infrastructure of Russia. According to him, in 2023 alone, about 200 thousand powerful cyber attacks were recorded. On November 4, 2023, a massive hacker attack from Ukraine and Western countries was carried out on the websites of the Russia exhibition. The cyber attack was carried out through a controlled botnet network located in Ukraine, the USA, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Poland, Japan and other countries unfriendly to Russia. |
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| #3 Scientists complete 13-year study on cats’ sex lives |
| Posted by: Grom the Reflective 2024-02-11 11:01 |
| #2 ^^ Keeps the IT folks busy while the back-ends and databases are explored. |
| Posted by: Mullah Richard 2024-02-11 08:38 |
| #1 Only "dozens"? |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2024-02-11 00:10 |