Citizens of Russia who had the imprudence to indicate their mobile phone number or email address in the personal data column when filling out various forms, cards and questionnaires on the Internet often encounter spam clogging their email inbox.
There is hope that new introductions to the legislation of the Russian Federation will correct the current situation with access to personal data, which has been attacked or hacked recently.
The working team on the development of information technologies in September this year will submit to the State Duma of the Russian Federation for consideration several amendments to the current law on the protection of information in the field of communications, information technologies and mass communications.
The head of the working group, Ruslan Gattarov, says that in the world of social networks, citizens of the Russian Federation are not immune from public dissemination or distortion of information about themselves. Mr. Gattarov has repeatedly tried to convict Google of tax evasion, and also suspects the Facebook network of inconsistency with real legislation, since deleted messages remain in the archive of any social network. Of course, the relevance of this topic is connected with the sensational case of the CIA employee Edward Snowden, who declassified the information on how the American intelligence agencies receive information about users of Google, Facebook, Twitter and Microsoft.
Definitely, the world of online crimes committed in virtual reality is growing and expanding every day. Hackers are inventing new tools for hacking user accounts and financial systems. At a company providing major Internet providers, claim that in order to keep the Internet space free, it is necessary to create a working system for detecting, warning and deleting information, access to which is limited by applicable law. For a year now, the Registry of Prohibited Sites has been actively working, which, according to lawyers, can clearly convince users of their goal - to save minors from information that can be traumatic and prohibited by law.
The Minister of Telecom and Mass Communications Nikolai Nikiforov said that “everything that happens on the Internet cannot be considered any kind of confidential information - not from a legal, but from a technical point of view, because it goes through various channels, servers. Someone, one way or another, may have access to this. " Based on this, he argues that modern society should think about what kind of Internet services it uses. Indeed, according to the reports of Group-IB research groups, about fifty percent of sites with second-level domains in the zones of RU and the Russian Federation are engaged in the distribution of malicious software. As explained - For the first half of 2013 alone, 896 sites threatening computer software security were detected in the Russian-language segment of the global Internet.
The information has serious power and can even be a weapon, as evidenced by the use of cyber weapons - Stuxnet and Duqu, as well as the expansion of the zone of its use in Iran and the territory of West Asia adjacent to it. Stepan Deshevykh, Kaspersky Lab’s senior product manager, notes that now modified Trojans are already being used in the business sector too, having gone beyond fraud with home users. More and more malicious programs are appearing that are created to infect the repository of corporate documentation, as well as damage encryption programs.
The Acronis analytics team concluded that information is losing its high degree of protection even in companies where employees use their own devices in the workplace. Only a third of large firms forbid their employees to bring personal devices to the office. In addition, many companies allow the use of cloud services for data transfer, but almost eighty percent of organizations do not train employees in the safe use of computers.
Roskomnadzor, as well as other government departments, are introducing new amendments to the current legislation: new crimes are being introduced, almost all types of violations are being considered, and law-abiding companies are encouraged. For example, if a particular company does not receive complaints, the service puts it at the end of the list of the verification plan. Roskomnadzor expects to receive more offers in this regard, wishing to stimulate Russian society to be law-abiding not only in the real, but also in the virtual world.