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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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Experts detailed how China Telecom used BGP hijacking to redirect traffic worldwide

Security Affairs

Security researchers revealed in a recent paper that over the past years, China Telecom used BGP hijacking to misdirect Internet traffic through China. Security researchers Chris C. The incident also affected US government (‘‘.gov’’) ” states the paper. gov’’) and military (‘‘.mil’’) mil’’) websites.

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Feds Allege Adconion Employees Hijacked IP Addresses for Spamming

Krebs on Security

A statement of facts filed by the government indicates Petr Pacas was at one point director of operations at Company A (Adconion). The government alleges the men sent forged letters to an Internet hosting firm claiming they had been authorized by the registrants of the inactive IP addresses to use that space for their own purposes.

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How Did Authorities Identify the Alleged Lockbit Boss?

Krebs on Security

The government alleges Khoroshev created, sold and used the LockBit ransomware strain to personally extort more than $100 million from hundreds of victim organizations, and that LockBit as a group extorted roughly half a billion dollars over four years. NeroWolfe seems to have abandoned all of his forum accounts sometime in 2016.

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Is India's Aadhaar System Really "Hack-Proof"? Assessing a Publicly Observable Security Posture

Troy Hunt

It's operating in an era of increasingly large repositories of personal data held by both private companies and governments alike. Here, Motherboard talks about personal data being sold for less than $10 a pop in a case that sounds eerily similar to the previously mentioned Medicare one. billion locals' data.

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The Burden of Privacy In Discovery

Data Matters

4 The Federal Rules of Civil Procedure have begun — since their inception — with a guiding command for courts to seek “to secure the just, speedy, and inexpensive determination of every action and proceeding.”5 19 No longer are the proportionality considerations described as separate “limitations” on an inquiry governed solely by relevance.20

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking Voting Systems

ForAllSecure

While digital voting systems are more secure today, what about the larger ecosystem, starting from the moment you register until your vote is counted? Who’s keeping those systems secure? In 2010, she was interviewed by O'Reilly Media. One of the premiere security researchers that Bowen invited to California was J.