A motorist on Saturday captured video of a plane crash in Moscow that killed five crew members on board.
First posted on December 29 on YouTube, the video now has over 5.1 million views.
The video was first noticed by LJ-Toys followed by other Russian sites before breaking to news outlets like the Daily Mail in the UK and popular site Reddit.
Five people died in the crash of the Red Wings Tu-204 airliner just off a highway near Moscow’s Vnukovo Airport.
The plane was carrying eight people on …

China has once again denied a recently announced US report accusing it of using hacking and spying to gain trade secrets.

China, with or without evidence, rejected the latest US report involving cyber espionage. (Image: Matt Barber (CC), via Flickr)

A report from the US Office of Counter Intelligence claimed that China and Russia are employing cyber espionage to acquire American trade secrets.
According to Reuters, the report to Congress indicated that highly sensitive information are …

A report from the US government has accused China and Russia for hacking attacks and spying activities.

The US condemns the hacking attacks and spying activities from China and Russia. (Image: quatro.sinko (CC), via Flickr)

The October-dated report entitled Foreign Spies Stealing US Economic Secrets in Cyberspace comes from the Office of Counter Intelligence.
According to the report, cyber-attacks against financial and government institutions have increased, showing a graphic with a Wall …

The government of Russia may introduce a new tax on the Apple iPad and Samsung Galaxy Tab tablets, a report from Kommersant reveals.

Russia will be adding an additional 5 percent tax on the iPad 2 and Galaxy Tab models. Image: double-h_by_phone / Flickr (CC)

The report says that the news comes from Federal Customers Service documents it has seen.
The new tax, amounting to a new import duty of 5 percent, the Kommersant says, comes from the classification of iPad 2 and Galaxy Tab tablets with …

Twitter, Facebook, and one of Russia’s biggest social networking websites were blocked by the authoritarian government of Belarus in an attempt to squash the efforts of protestors in Minsk, Belarus. Police on Sunday detained several dozens of protestors during an action dubbed “Revolution via Social Network”.

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Thousands of police and secret service agents were sent to help suppress the protest action but between 700 and 800 showed up employing a new …

Microsoft on Wednesday has posted notices in two Russian dailies to legally inform those behind the Rustock network of zombie computers to legally make their case, various reports detail.

According to reports, the quarter-page notices will run in the Delovoy Petersburg and The Moscow News papers for 30 days.
The Rustock botnet, which was taken down by U.S. authorities in cooperation with Microsoft in March, was a notorious network of computers which had sent massive numbers of spam emails …

Apple is looking to open its first retail store in Russia, a report from ifoAppleStore says.
The store, which purportedly is likely to open in Moscow, will be located at the newly refurbished Hotel Moskva, according to the report.
The possibility that the store will be opened at the 16,000-square-foot facility is likely, the report says, as Apple officials have reportedly flown to Russia to survey the space.
According to the site, Apple Senior Vice President of Retail Ron Johnson and Vice …