Information security

How did the Taliban take settlements in Afghanistan without a fight and what is the countryʹs future...

23 august 2021
CTV
News of Belarus. A little bit more about the U.S. Army in Afghanistan and events taking place there. Andrei Chernobay, Military Analyst at the Belarusian Institute of Strategic Research, is the guest of Minsk Capital Television (CTV) studio.   ...

View from Belarus: Tashkent Forum allowed comprehensive consideration of information security...

05 july 2021
DUNYO
In an interview with the Dunyo Information Agency Director of the Belarusian Institute of Strategic Research, Oleg Makarov commented on the outcomes of the CIS International Expert Forum on Information Security held in Tashkent on June 29: ...

Experts – on the achilles’ heel of digitalized elections and polls

31 july 2020
Belarus Segodnya
The advance of information technologies has made digitalization a reality that has deeply rooted in our daily lives. And electoral processes are no exception. Even IT platforms have already been announced, which will supposedly provide remote monitoring of elections and alternative counting of votes. Nikolay Sukhotsky and Svetlana Aleinikova, discuss the risks and challenges of such p...

Types of fake news, population protection against distorted facts, the role of state bodies and jour...

08 april 2020
Belarus Segodnya
Digital analysts have already attributed the spread of fakes and deepfakes to the most significant cyber threats this year. According to various estimates, even today up to 60 percent of the world Internet traffic is provided by artificial programs, including the spread of various rumours and fake news. At a February meeting with the heads of the leading state media, the President com...

Competent tuesday: specialists – on ways to ensure information security in the light of development ...

03 march 2020
Belarus Segodnya
An abundance of false or inaccurate information is becoming a worldwide evil. Providers are sounding the alarm: up to 60 percent of the world Internet traffic is provided by bots – artificial programs involved in the distribution of fakes. It is becoming more and more obvious that the situation requires a solution. But which one? This January, Minister of Information Aleksandr Karlyuk...

Know more of the new types of fakes on the internet. Attention: deep fakes!

22 january 2020
Belarus Segodnya
Do you still believe in what you see? Politicians getting drunk and swearing. Businesspersons confessing to have committed crimes, actors "gluing on" other people's faces and doing strange things. The Internet is full of videos of celebrities behaving in an unusual way. However, none of them is true. Deep fake is when a person's appearance and voice are changed in a real video using ...

Makarov: the impact of fake news on people will weaken

01 september 2019
Belarus Segodnya
Oleg Makarov, Director of the Belarusian Institute for Strategic Research, believes that the impact of fake news and Telegram channels on people will weaken. He made this statement in an interview with the "Nedelia" show on СTV channel. ...