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Russian Cybersecurity Executive Arrested for Alleged Role in 2012 Megahacks

Krebs on Security

Nikita Kislitsin , formerly the head of network security for one of Russia’s top cybersecurity firms, was arrested last week in Kazakhstan in response to 10-year-old hacking charges from the U.S. Nikita Kislitsin, at a security conference in Russia. Department of Justice. “The company is monitoring developments.”

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Meet Ika & Sal: The Bulletproof Hosting Duo from Hell

Krebs on Security

For years, security experts — and indeed, many top cybercriminals in the Spamit affiliate program — have expressed the belief that Sal and Icamis were likely the same person using two different identities. But the identity and whereabouts of Icamis have remained a mystery to this author until recently. bank accounts.

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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. Try2Check’s login pages have been replaced with a seizure notice from U.S. law enforcement.

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Spam Kingpin Peter Levashov Gets Time Served

Krebs on Security

In 2010, Microsoft — in tandem with a number of security researchers — launched a combined technical and legal sneak attack on the Waledac botnet, successfully dismantling it. The government argued that under U.S. Levashov was arrested in 2017 while in Barcelona, Spain with his family. I will die in a year.”

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Blockchain Tracing: The U.S. Government’s Newest Tool to Combat Foreign Crime

Data Matters

2010) (citation omitted). Federal magistrate judges rarely issue memorandum opinions to explain their reasons for issuing federal complaints, and here there seemed little question as to whether there was probable cause that Defendant used U.S.-based based institutions to direct bitcoin to a sanctioned nation. at 6, quoting Zarmach Oil Servs.,

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Time to end a decade of library austerity

CILIP

CILIP and Library Champion Bobby Seagull delivered a petition to Downing Street last Thursday calling for an end to a decade of public library austerity and demanding secure revenue funding for public libraries in the Chancellor?s 243m per year in real terms since 2010. ve seen in the last 10 years. s budget is announced.

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LinkedIn to IPO in 2010? Facebook to Find a Business Model? | ZDNet

Collaboration 2.0

Google unplugs Windows Google decides that a security invasion from China was the last straw and bans the use of. LinkedIn to IPO in 2010? By Oliver Marks | December 29, 2009, 12:36pm PST Summary Despite the claims from LinkedIn that an IPO isn’t imminent, I wouldn’t be surprised to see that happen in 2010.

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