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Mozilla Drops Onerep After CEO Admits to Running People-Search Networks

Krebs on Security

On March 14, KrebsOnSecurity published a story showing that Onerep’s Belarusian CEO and founder Dimitiri Shelest launched dozens of people-search services since 2010, including a still-active data broker called Nuwber that sells background reports on people. Onerep and Shelest did not respond to requests for comment on that story.

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Ask Fitis, the Bear: Real Crooks Sign Their Malware

Krebs on Security

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. . My fingerprints change beyond recognition every few days.

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French Court of Cassation Excludes Application of Data Protection Act to Competition Authority’s Investigation

Hunton Privacy

On February 19, 2010, the Court of Appeals of Versailles upheld the Commission Authority’s unlimited search and seizure of emails belonging to employees of the company, Janssen-Cilag.

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French Court Rules Investigation by Competition Authority Did Not Breach Employee Privacy Rights

Hunton Privacy

On February 19, 2010, the Court of Appeals of Versailles (the “Court”) upheld the unlimited seizure and review of a company’s emails by several agents of the French Competition Authority ( Autorité de la Concurrence ).

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Ten Years Later, New Clues in the Target Breach

Krebs on Security

As detailed in my 2014 book Spam Nation , Vrublevsky not-so-secretly ran a pharmacy affiliate spam program called Rx-Promotion , which paid spammers and virus writers to blast out tens of billions of junk emails advertising generic Viagra and controlled pharmaceuticals like pain relief medications. ru under the handle “ r-fac1.”

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COVID-19 – Johnson & Johnson saw a 30% uptick in cyber-attacks

Security Affairs

“North Korean hackers have targeted at least six pharmaceutical companies in the U.S., “Healthcare companies literally have seen an onslaught [of cyberattacks] since March 2010,” Allison added. Johnson & Johnson, along with other COVID-19 research companies, has been recently hit by North Korea-linked hackers.

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Reltio: From Origin Story to Future State

Reltio

When Informatica acquired Siperian in 2010, Manish left to pursue a startup venture that would solve some of these thorny problems – but instead through a unified, cloud-based solution. Reltio’s customer base was primarily in the pharmaceutical industry out of the gate. Reltio’s First Customers Providing Life Sciences Data Solutions.