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War is not only on the battlefield. Hackers are actively struggling with each other as well. Recently, Anonymous said that they had breached Russian search engine Yandex.ru and put 150k users at risk. However, it’s impossible to claim whether this information is accurate. Moreover, many users claim that the passwords do not work. And even if they work, 2FA would make them useless. JUST IN: The network of the Russian search giant https://t.co/yGsYTZ1Lyr has been breached by #Anonymous,… Source link

Arkady Yurievich Volozh seemed to be in good spirits. It was February 11, his birthday, and the 58-year-old billionaire CEO and cofounder of Yandex, the Russian tech behemoth, was in the sort of open, engaging mood that could be called privetliviy, after the casual Russian word privet for hello. He was speaking from his car in Tel Aviv, bragging about his father—an oil geologist in his eighties who had “discovered” oil in Israel, Volozh said—as we chatted about my upcoming trip to… Source link

Arkady Yurievich Volozh seemed to be in good spirits. It was February 11, his birthday, and the 58-year-old billionaire CEO and cofounder of Yandex, the Russian tech behemoth, was in the sort of open, engaging mood that could be called privetliviy, after the casual Russian word privet for hello. He was speaking from his car in Tel Aviv, bragging about his father—an oil geologist in his eighties who had “discovered” oil in Israel, Volozh said—as we chatted about my upcoming trip to… Source link

Editors’ Note: Arkady Volozh resigned as Yandex’s CEO on June 3, 2022, after the European Union sanctioned him.  Arkady Yurievich Volozh seemed to be in good spirits. It was February 11, his birthday, and the 58-year-old billionaire CEO and cofounder of Yandex, the Russian tech behemoth, was in the sort of open, engaging mood that could be called privetliviy, after the casual Russian word privet for hello. He was speaking from his car in Tel Aviv, bragging about his father—an oil geologist… Source link

Editors’ Note: Arkady Volozh resigned as Yandex’s CEO on June 3, 2022, after the European Union sanctioned him.  Arkady Yurievich Volozh seemed to be in good spirits. It was February 11, his birthday, and the 58-year-old billionaire CEO and cofounder of Yandex, the Russian tech behemoth, was in the sort of open, engaging mood that could be called privetliviy, after the casual Russian word privet for hello. He was speaking from his car in Tel Aviv, bragging about his father—an oil geologist… Source link

Apple has been cutting ties with Russia over its invasion of Ukraine. The iPhone app store still hosts dozens of apps from Yandex, the country’s biggest internet firm. A senior Yandex executive was recently sanctioned by the EU over his close ties to Vladimir Putin. Apple has stopped selling iPhones in Russia and limited the use of its … Source link

The closure of Western social media networks like Facebook, Instagram and Twitter by Russia in retaliation for Western sanctions, following the invasion of Ukraine, creates new business opportunities for Russian media and communications companies like Yandex. Russia’s biggest email account provider VK is reportedly considering reviving the ICQ chat program, developed in Israel in the 1990s and eventually finding Russian owners in 2010, in order to provide social network… Source link

Yandex, the Russian online search giant — also running a variety of other digital services — is exploring different “strategic options, including disvestment, for its news aggregation service and infotainment platform Zen.” The company stated Friday it intended to “focus on developing its other technology-related businesses and products (including search, advertising, self-driving and cloud) and transactional services (including ride-hailing, e-commerce, video/audio… Source link

Russia’s internet giant Yandex has told investors it’s exploring “strategic options” for its media products — including a potential sale of its news aggregator, Yandex News, and a user-generated content recommendation and blogging “infotainment” platform, called Zen. The disclosure confirms our reporting earlier this week — when sources told us Yandex is in discussions to sell Yandex News and Zen. Our sources suggested the move is linked to the risks posed by tighter… Source link

Russia’s internet giant Yandex has told investors it’s exploring “strategic options” for its media products — including a potential sale of its news aggregator, Yandex News, and a user-generated content recommendation and blogging “infotainment” platform, called Zen. The disclosure confirms our reporting earlier this week — when sources told us Yandex is in discussions to sell Yandex News and Zen. Our sources suggested the move is linked to the risks posed by tighter regulations on freedom… Source link