Yandex News

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Yandex data breach reveals source code littered with racist language  IT PRO Source link

in brief Russian hackers have proved yet again how quickly cyber attacks can be used to respond to global events with a series of DDoS attacks on German infrastructure and government websites in response to the country’s plan to send tanks to Ukraine. The efforts, according to Germany’s cyber security agency, the BSI, were largely in vain. “Currently, some websites are not accessible. There are currently no indications of direct effects on the respective services and, according to the BSI’s… Source link

in brief Russian hackers have proved yet again how quickly cyber attacks can be used to respond to global events with a series of DDoS attacks on German infrastructure and government websites in response to the country’s plan to send tanks to Ukraine. The efforts, according to Germany’s cyber security agency, the BSI, were largely in vain. “Currently, some websites are not accessible. There are currently no indications of direct effects on the respective services and, according to the BSI’s… Source link

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Petr Pavel: Ex-general beats populist rival in Czech election  BBC Source link

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Yandex ‘leak’ reveals 1922 search ranking factors  Search Engine Land Source link

A former employee allegedly leaked a Yandex source code repository, part of which contained more than 1,900 factors the search engines uses for ranking search results. Why we care. This leak has revealed 1,922 ranking factors Yandex used in its search algorithm, at least as of July 2022. Perhaps Martin MacDonald put it best on Twitter today: “The Yandex hack is probably the most interesting thing to have happened in SEO in years.” Yandex is… Source link

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Racial slurs discovered in leaked Yandex source code  CyberScoop Source link

Russian tech giant Yandex apologized on Friday for racial slurs uncovered in the company’s source code. The apology came in response to the discovery of multiple references to the N-word in the company’s code base after it leaked online. “We deeply regret that this word ever appeared in our internal codes,” the Yandex press office told CyberScoop in an email Friday. A researcher who goes by the name “Wacky Fruit” on Twitter posted screenshots Thursday showing the use… Source link

Moldova’s antitrust enforcer has launched its first probe into an online platform as it assesses if two taxi applications owned by Russian search engine Yandex have abused their dominance through exclusivity arrangements. … Source link

The smart oven installed in your kitchen may look innocuous enough, but it could be quietly surfing the internet and visiting websites in China and Russia every few minutes. As The Register reports(Opens in a new window), that’s what security-minded software developer Stephan van Rooji discovered when he checked what his own AEG smart oven was using a Wi-Fi connection for. As van Rooji explains(Opens in a new window), most devices with an active internet connection perform regular checks to… Source link