By 11 March, Russia could be officially ‘off’ the internet, completing the isolation from global communications that has been in place since the first day of the attack on Ukraine. Sources expert in cyber-security confirm that Moscow has started preparations to transfer all transmissions, connections to servers and management of internal domains on a parallel network, the national intranet ‘Rucom’.
Russia blocks Facebook and Twitter
by Bruno Ruffilli
This is what emerges from two documents sent by the Ministry of digital development, communication and mass media “to the federal executive authorities and the executive authorities of the subjects of the Russian Federation”, and in which it is asked to “verify access to the personal accounts of the administrators of the domains of public sites on the Internet, update and (or) make the password policy more complex “with” the addition of authentication factors for users “, the displacement of transmissions to DNS servers located on the territory of the Russian federation , the deletion from HTML pages of all Javascript codes downloaded from foreign resources.
Russia-Ukraine
The alarm goes off: Italy will be hit by a cyber attack
by Arturo Di Corinto
Furthermore, if the sites use a foreign hosting, the public resources will be moved to a Russian hosting and it is then asked to move all the active sites on this intranet to a ‘.ru’ domain. The application of the measures will be reported to the Moscow Ministry of Digital Development by 15 March.
In reality, the move is not unexpected: Giulio Gargiullo expert on the Russian web and author of “Digital Marketing in Russia: Sell online and promote your brand in the largest digital market in Europe” explains in fact that the posting is set up by law for some years already. The text of the law – he continues – “National program of digital economy” concerning privacy and security, was in fact approved between 16 and 22 April 2019 by the Russian Parliament, was signed on 1 May by President Vladimir Putin and published on the Government website “.
The strategy
The creative use of technology in the service of Ukraine
by Federico Guerrini
For some time, however, many regimes have been impatient with the management of the web at a global level in the hands of Icann, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, an independent organization that controls domains and addresses. But immediately after the outbreak of hostilities, the Kiev government had called for a ‘detachment’ of Russia from the Internet. Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Mykhailo Fedorov had in fact asked for the Web isolation of Moscow to prevent the spread of false news and hate messages. Today Moscow is playing in advance to prevent the spread of uncomfortable truths about war in the country, without denying its citizens access to the Internet.