Documentolog News #13 (June 29, 2020 - July 6, 2020)

? New company clients, with whom you can interact electronically: 

New Legal Entities (NLE) 

for the week / total   +139 / 11,552,

New Individuals (NI)

for the week / total   +302 / 11,419. 

?Electronic documents sent (ED sent): 

for the week / total  + 20,776 / 1,069,649. 

?Minimum savings on courier services (MSCS): 

for the week / total   5,194,000 tenge / 267,412,250 tenge;

?New client requests (CR): 

for the week / for the year   + 405 / 20,186; 

?Average request execution rating (AP):

for the week    5.0;

?Documentolog system availability level (SAL):

for the past week  99.96%;

Other news from the past week:

? A total of ❗️240 information security events were recorded. Among them:

- 41 hacking attempts,

- 199 vulnerability analysis and search events in our network. 

All actions by intruders were successfully prevented.

?What IT projects were implemented during the quarantine. The story covered the transition of government bodies to cloud document management. 

?The level of digital literacy of the population of Kazakhstan reached 82%. 

"Overall, thanks to the development of human capital in the IT sector, the total economic effect of digitalization amounted to 802.5 billion tenge. More than 120,000 jobs were created in various industries. About 38 billion investments were attracted to domestic startups. There are good achievements in international rankings. This work will continue," said Askar Zhumagaliyev.

?KZ-CERT will cooperate with APCERT. (https://devsday.ru/news/details/188317) The RSE "State Technical Service" joined as a communication partner in the Asia-Pacific Computer Emergency Response Team (APCERT).

The main goals of the partnership are:

— exchange of information on information security threats;

— joint response to information security incidents;

— exchange of information on the spread of malware;

— exchange of compromise indicators.

?IT specialists' salaries in Kazakhstan increased by 20%. According to PayWell Kazakhstan 2019, the salary of IT specialists increased by 20% compared to the previous year. It is noted that the average monthly salary of an IT specialist in 2019 in Kazakhstan was 503,000 tenge (before taxes).

?The number of payment cards in circulation jumped by 55% in a year. By the beginning of June this year, there were 38.8 million payment cards in circulation in Kazakhstan — 54.7% more compared to the same period last year (25.1 million cards). 

?An application for people with special needs will be developed at a hackathon in Nur-Sultan. According to the Astana Hub international technopark, the 48-hour online hackathon SOCIALHACK will bring together students from all over Kazakhstan to solve a socially oriented task of developing a prototype mobile application for people with special needs. The hackathon will take place from July 16 to 18, 2020, in an online format.

?Facebook admitted that thousands of developers were able to access user data again. Facebook did not disclose how long this situation lasted before it was discovered, nor the total number of users whose data may have been inadvertently exposed in this leak.

?Analysis of 170 million leaked passwords: interesting findings: big data analyst and independent cybersecurity researcher Ata Hakcil collected and analyzed over a billion rows of logins and passwords, which were scattered across the network and obtained as a result of various leaks. 

Further analysis of Hakcil's data showed that:

 • the most common password is "123456", appearing in about 0.722% of cases, followed by "123456789", "password", "qwerty", "12345678";

 • Only 8.83% of the total password database are unique, the rest appear two or more times.

Other findings of the analysis here.

?Researchers from the Microsoft AI team presented a new AI algorithm that can restore old images without distortion or loss of texture.

?The identity of the hacker Fxmsp, who stole information from more than 300 corporate networks in 44 countries, has been established — a 37-year-old resident of Kazakhstan. 

The hacker is accused of "committing various federal crimes" related to a group of cybercriminals that hacked into networks of institutions, companies, and governments worldwide. According to law enforcement, the hackers were able to gain persistent access to information, which they then resold on specialized forums. 

That's all. We wish everyone a productive week! Take care!