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Meet Ika & Sal: The Bulletproof Hosting Duo from Hell

Krebs on Security

Spamit), an invite-only community for Russian-speaking people in the businesses of sending spam and building botnets of infected computers to relay said spam. Penchukov) — fled his mandatory military service orders and was arrested in Geneva, Switzerland. The Spamdot admins went by the nicknames Icamis (a.k.a. 9, 2024).

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Encryption: How It Works, Types, and the Quantum Future

eSecurity Planet

Quantum computing attacks already present a real threat to existing standards, making the continued development of encryption pivotal for years to come. Cryptology is the overarching field of study related to writing and solving codes, whereas encryption and decryption are the central processes driving the computer science discipline.