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$10M Is Yours If You Can Get This Guy to Leave Russia

Krebs on Security

Launched in 2005, Try2Check soon was processing more than a million card-checking transactions per month — charging 20 cents per transaction. ” In February 2005, Nordex posted to Mazafaka that he was in the market for hacked bank accounts, and offered 50 percent of the take. Denis Kulkov, a.k.a. Image: USDOJ.

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The role of a secret Dutch mole in the US-Israeli Stuxnet attack on Iran

Security Affairs

Stuxnet is a malicious computer worm developed to target SCADA systems that was first uncovered in 2010, but researchers believe its development begun at least 2005. That mole then provided much -needed inside access when it came time to slip Stuxnet onto those systems using a USB flash drive.” ” wrote the journalists.

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Cell Phone Security and Heads of State

Schneier on Security

Back in 2005, unknown attackers targeted the cell phones of many Greek politicians by hacking the country's phone network and turning on an already-installed eavesdropping capability. We don't know details of which countries do what, but we know a lot about the vulnerabilities. As for the rest of us, it depends on how interesting we are.

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