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Ask Fitis, the Bear: Real Crooks Sign Their Malware

Krebs on Security

2016 sales thread on Exploit. Fitis’s real-life identity was exposed in 2010 after two of the biggest sponsors of pharmaceutical spam went to war with each other, and large volumes of internal documents, emails and chat records seized from both spam empires were leaked to this author. “Why do I need a certificate?”

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GUEST ESSAY. Everyone should grasp these facts about cyber threats that plague digital commerce

The Last Watchdog

A common type of spyware is a RAM scraper that attacks the storage (RAM) of electronic point-of-sale (POS) devices to scrap customers’ credit card information. About the essayist: Ashley Lukehart has been writing about the impact of technology and IT security on businesses since starting Parachute in 2005. Trojan horse.