News of the week: Yandex and Western intelligence agencies, FAS fights online casinos, Ministry of Transport regulates BlaBlaCar



    In the new digest read:

    • Yandex was attacked by Western intelligence agencies;
    • Google plans to distribute the Internet with balloons for money;
    • The Ministry of Transport is engaged in the regulation of BlaBlaCar and other transport workers;
    • NASA plans to ship a rover to Titan;
    • Donald Trump lifts sanctions against Huawei;
    • FAS will seriously take on online casinos;
    • Corel and Parallels sold for $ 1 billion.

    Yandex and Western intelligence agencies




    The Yandex company said that at the end of 2018 it was attacked by intruders . This attack was an attempt by cybercriminals to introduce a rare type of malware into the company's infrastructure. Provided that it is successfully introduced into the network, the malware operator can monitor the user accounts of company services.

    Cybercriminals hunted for technical information that provides user authorization. If the attack succeeded, then the attackers could calmly get a large amount of personal data of the company's users.

    Google will distribute the Internet from balloons in Kenya




    Over the next few weeks, Google, together with one of Kenya’s largest Internet service providers, are planning to launch the Internet over the air . This is a project called Project Loon, which is being gradually implemented by the corporation.

    For the first time they decided to distribute the Internet from balloons in 2011. Then the company connected artificial intelligence to this project, which monitors the placement and direction of movement of balloons. Now the project is being tested for the first time on a commercial basis, since previously all tests were carried out free of charge for the end user.

    If the Google project performs well in Kenya, then the other companies mentioned above will also test it. “If the results are positive, we will be interested in the project,” a spokesman for Orange Middle East and Africa said.

    Ministry of Transport will regulate the work of online aggregators of joint trips by car


    The Russian Ministry of Transport is planning to regulate online aggregators . The largest service of this kind is BlaBlaCar. The project imposes a number of restrictions on the capabilities of those users who offer transport services.

    In particular, the project prohibits the use of cash to pay for driver services, plus a restriction is introduced on the number of flights per day (no more than two) and the number of travel companions - there should not be more than five.

    As for the bill, this is a document representing a new federal law; it also supplements existing norms. He was sent on June 28 to members of the working group of the Ministry of Transport, which is engaged in regulating legal relations in such trips.

    NASA sends rover to Titan, however, not today and not tomorrow




    The NASA agency announced its intention to send a flying Dragon Rover to Titan . This device, according to the plan, will go to the planetoid in 2026. It should descend into the atmosphere of the object in 2034. The device is an octocopter - it is a drone with four double propellers. Such copters have never landed outside the Earth.

    “The device will fly to dozens of places on Titan in search of chemical elements and processes common both on Titan and on Earth. Titanium is an analogue of the Earth at an early stage of its development and can give a hint about how life could have appeared on our planet, ”NASA said in a press release.

    US lifts sanctions against Huawei




    US President Donald Trump said that almost all sanctions against the Chinese company Huawei are lifted. Negotiations on this issue were held at the G20 Summit in Japan.

    As far as one can understand, the reason for lifting sanctions against Huawei, obviously, was the successful negotiations between representatives of countries regarding the US planned increase in duties on imported goods from China. Earlier, Donald Trump expressed dissatisfaction with the trade imbalance between the two countries. As a result of the negotiations, he said: “Now we do not plan to raise tariffs in relation to China in the near future. We look forward to working with China. They seem to be open to communication and ready to start spending money. "

    FAS will fight against illegal online casino advertising




    The Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) of Russia is going to obtain the right to block sites with illegal advertising of online casinos with the help of Roskomnadzor .

    “The problem with online casinos is really big. Casino advertising is prohibited on the Internet. And, in principle, it does not appear in search engines and on news sites. Such advertising is more typical for sites with pirated content, but these sites are not always located in our domain zones, so it is not always possible to block access to such a site. We know this problem and are trying to solve it, ”Tatyana Nikitina, head of the FAS advertising and unfair competition control department, told TASS news agency.

    Corel and Parallels sell for $ 1 billion




    The companies mentioned in the title were bought by the KKR investment group from the United States . The fact that KKR plans to acquire Corel became known back in May 2019 - however, then there was no clear signal from the buyer, so the information went only in the form of rumors. Now, the total amount of the transaction has not been disclosed, but sources close to both the seller and the buyer claim that the transaction volume is at least $ 1 billion.

    KRR announced that they plan to continue Corel’s policy of buying promising companies and using their assets . At the moment, it is not known which Corel products will continue to develop, and which will remain unchanged or will be closed.

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