Stories about electronic voting usually centre on the danger that foreign powers such as Russia or China will hack into systems in the West and affect the outcome of elections. But in a new twist, Russia’s Duma has accepted a draft law which may allow electronic voting in their own …
In July 1984, General Vladimir Kryuchkov, head of the KGB’s First Chief Directorate, the division of the KGB responsible for overseas espionage, gave a lecture to a specially convened conference of KGB officers in Moscow. His subject was the failure of the service compared with their Western opponents. By this …
In his annual speech to the Russian Security Service, the FSB, President Valdimir Putin has claimed that they had detected more than six hundred enemy spies last year. He said that “for obvious reasons” he would not go into details, but he claimed that 126 members of diplomatic missions and …
26 February: According to a statement from the Swedish Security Service (SAPO), an individual has been arrested in central Stockholm on suspicion of “unlawful intelligence activities”. Daniel Stenling, head of the Counter-Intelligence Division of SAPO said that the individual had been recruited by a Russian intelligence officer, probably in 2017. …
25 February: After a secret trial, a Russian military court has found FSB Colonel Sergei Mikhailov and Kaspersky Lab senior executive Ruslan Stoyanov guilty of treason. The allegation was that they had conspired to pass information to the FBI. Mikhailov had been deputy head of the FSB’s cyber security division. …