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

Krebs on Security

government this week put a $10 million bounty on the head of a Russian man who for the past 18 years operated Try2Check , one of the cybercrime underground’s most trusted services for checking the validity of stolen credit card data. Denis Kulkov, a.k.a. “Nordex,” in his Ferrari. 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. Khan stole the designs to build Pakistan’s nuclear program, then proceeded to market them to other countries, including Iran and Libya.”

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Cell Phone Security and Heads of State

Schneier on Security

What about the cell phones of other world leaders and senior government officials? These included senior government officials of Germany -- among them Chancellor Angela Merkel -- France , Japan , and other countries. These vulnerabilities are resold to governments and cyberweapons manufacturers.

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