Dutch team up with Armenia for Bredolab botnet take down

Armenian authorities arrested Russian-Armenian Georg Avanesov, 27 in Yerevan's "Zvartnots" International Airport on suspicion of  constructing and running a massive botnet, at one point infecting up to 29 million computers in countries including Italy, Spain, South Africa, the U.S. and the U.K.

The botnet was constructed with the help of Bredolab - a type of malicious software program that can steal login and password details, log keystrokes, and steal any data from an infected computer. The Bredolab botnet was capable of infecting up to 3 million computers per month. By the end of last year, it was estimated that 3.6 billion spam e-mails were sent out daily containing the Bredolab malware, according to the Dutch High Tech Crime Team.
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Official: Number of Armenian Internet Users Reaches 1,5 Million

According to the Armenia’s Public Services Regulatory Commission (PSRC), 1,5 million internet users were registered in Armenia.

Member of Armenia’s Public Services Regulatory Commission (PSRC) Samvel Arabajyan told a news conference on October 26th, that over 160 thousand broadband internet users were reported as of October 1 against 125 thousand in January 1.

Meanwhile, twofold decrease of dial-up internet users was observed over the first half-year of 2010, their current number comprising 21 thousand.
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Armenia Needs Serzh Sargsyan Twitter Account

Twitter saw 300% growth in sign-ups the next day and have seen steady growth in activity and high-profile Russian use one day after Russian President Dmitry Medvedev started an account at Twitter HQ.
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Most Impressive Use of iPhone I've Ever Seen

In October 2010, a New York rock band, Atomic Tom had their instruments stolen. In a stroke of genius, Atomic Tom members improvised with their iPhones.
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The Future of Publishing - is the new generation really reading a lot?

Intensive Care Therapy for Internet Addicts

Unzipped: YouTube 'epidemics' in Armenia, new school abuse video emerged

After animal abuse, army abuse and school abuse videos that were widely distributed in Armenian online circles and subsequently reported by printed media and reacted by officials, putting evidence of irregularities on YouTube becoming increasingly THE way of exposing things in Armenia.

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Freedom of Information and Armenian Government's Prize-Winning (but slightly mis-configured) Site

The Armenian Government website www.egov.am was recognized as the best official site by Freedom of Information Center during the annual award ceremony dedicated to the International Right to Know Day and held on September 28 at Yerevan's "Regineh" hotel.
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