Romania turns hacking crisis into advantage, helping Ukraine - Polidicks

[quote]Ukraine is turning to an unlikely partner in its struggle to defend itself against Russian cyber warfare: Romania. Both historic twists have ironically turned Romanian cyber sleuths into some of Europe’s best. So much so that NATO tapped Bucharest to defend Ukraine from Russian digital espionage by sending experts to monitor Kiev government institutes and train Ukrainian IT specialists. Ukraine says Russia’s Federal Security Service is coordinating attacks on government offices as part of a proxy war against Ukraine’s government, amid real fighting between Ukrainian forces and pro-Russian rebels in the east. Ukrainian security operatives say that, with Romania’s help, they have foiled attempts to spread malicious software intended to disable the government’s computer network or steal intelligence. At the opening of a regional conference on cyber security, U.S deputy Secretary for Commerce Bruce Andrews on Monday praised Romanian company Bitdefender which created “Bitdefender Box.” one of the first security products made specifically for home networks. It protects devices by scanning network traffic to detect and block potential security threats and noted that Romanian was the second language spoken at Microsoft in offices around the world, after English. Europol is also tapping into Romania’s cyber savvy. The European police agency’s chief, Ron Wainright, said 20 percent of Europol’s cyber defense experts are Romanian police officers. “The expertise that Romanian specialists bring in their daily fight against this threat is extraordinary,” he said on a recent visit to Bucharest.[/quote] [URL="http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/romania-turns-hacking-crisis-into-advantage-helping-ukraine/2015/05/13/9fa64642-f942-11e4-a47c-e56f4db884ed_story.html?tid=rssfeed"]Source[/URL]

Romania can into #1 Internet and #1 Hackers!

[QUOTE=Darknote;47715595]Romania can into #1 Internet and #1 Hackers![/QUOTE] The really fast and cheap internet helps the IT sector, indeed.

I really want to post *THAT* shutterstock photo but I can't :/

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I just looked it up and holy fuck romania has 1Gbit for like 17 bucks a month

[QUOTE=Zovox;47716294]I just looked it up and holy fuck romania has 1Gbit for like 17 bucks a month[/QUOTE] That's sorcery right? I mean, what the hell, I got like 10mb for like 85 euros a month... (then again, I have phone, TV channels, prepaid phone card with 500mb every month and the internet just doesn't goes further than that because the signal sucks where I live)

[QUOTE=kweh;47716347]That's sorcery right? I mean, what the hell, I got like 10mb for like 85 euros a month... (then again, I have phone, TV channels, prepaid phone card with 500mb every month and the internet just doesn't goes further than that because the signal sucks where I live)[/QUOTE] [quote]But there are other factors in Romania’s telecommunications history that have led to its impressive internet speeds, according to the ITU. When the demand for high speed internet started to grow in Romania, Romtelecom (Romania’s AT&T) hadn’t yet launched. To meet the need, savvy entrepreneurs started to launch neighborhood networks: small, localized operations that only serve a customer base of a few blocks. At first, these were just local area networks so neighbors could share music they’d downloaded or play games together. The local network operators started to make more money as more people joined the network, so they decided to use the LANs as a convenient way to sell inexpensive high-speed internet to a specific area, installing overhead internet cables.[/quote] Basically it started because of piracy. Those networks kept expanding, and eventually got bought up by big internet companies. They kept improving those networks, centralized them, modernized them. And now we have one of the fastest and cheapest internet speeds in the world.

I love how there's internet access literally everywhere, even though I live in a fairly remote area.

[QUOTE=Zovox;47716294]I just looked it up and holy fuck romania has 1Gbit for like 17 bucks a month[/QUOTE] oh my god fuck off american companies if romania can do it so can you

[QUOTE=J!NX;47716529]oh my god fuck off american companies if romania can do it so can you[/QUOTE] but they won't because they're greedy cunts.

[QUOTE=J!NX;47716529]oh my god fuck off american companies if romania can do it so can you[/QUOTE] it's the same here in AU. ISP's not wanting to upgrade to fiber optic because PROFIT. Plus, in a place where major capital cities are sometimes 3,000 km away from each other, it's not surprising. There are some places where ISDN / Dial-up is still used alot because of a lack of proper infrastructure. Romania even has faster internet than we do on average, even though they have a smaller economy & smaller country. Good on them for using technology on countering russian cyber-warfare. Might actually give the EU a +1 on mutual trust / defence for Ukraine, plus garnering more middle-class support in favouring them. I'm not sure about the wealthy & poor though.