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• St. Petersburg International Economic Forum: Hi-Tech in IT, Medicine and Economics

  Discussions at this year’s St. Petersburg International Economic Forum often revolve around the development of technology, its effect on future economy, and the increasing role of scientists in the matter. Experts discussed the transformation of medicine, humanity’s destructive effect on nature, cybersecurity, digitization of production and what new educational methods will need to be developed to train new kinds of specialists.

  24.05.2018

• Ensuring Cybersecurity: Hacking to Stop Hackers

  At the end of April, Ekaterinburg hosted an annual Russian Cybersecurity Competition known as Russian Capture the Flag (RuCTF). ITMO University’s student team LC↯BC took the fourth place in the overall ranking and the second place among Russian teams. RuCTF is a team competition in cybersecurity when participants have to protect their own servers and hack the opponents’ servers. A team from Ural Federal University has been hosting this competition for more than ten years. ITMO.NEWS talked to Vlad Roskov and Alexander Menschikov, the coordinators of SPbCTF project which holds weekly seminars in competitive hacking at ITMO University, and asked them some questions about CTF.

  16.05.2018

• InfoWatch President Natalya Kaspersky: New Technologies Pose Cybersecurity Threats

  New technology is being released every day, which makes it hard for cybersecurity experts to calculate potential risks. Seduced by new technologies like Internet of Things and Blockchain, we forget about the most important thing when it comes to information technology: its security. Everything is under threat today: from smartphones to control systems for nuclear power plants. Natalya Kaspersky, President of InfoWatch Group, attended the formal opening of ITMO-InfoWatch center. During an open lecture at ITMO University, she spoke about the challenges facing information security specialists and what ordinary users can do to protect themselves.

  24.01.2018