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Who’s Behind the ‘Web Listings’ Mail Scam?

Krebs on Security

One from May 2011 at onlineprnews.com sings the praises of Weblistingsinc.info , weblistingsinc.org and web-listings.net in the same release, and lists the point of contact simply as “Mark.” Cached versions of this site from 2011 show it naming Web Listings Inc. as a business partner. That same management@helpmego.to

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Confessions of an ID Theft Kingpin, Part I

Krebs on Security

By the time the Secret Service caught up with him in 2013, he’d made over $3 million selling fullz data to identity thieves and organized crime rings operating throughout the United States. As I wrote of Ngo’s service back in November 2011: “Superget lets users search for specific individuals by name, city, and state.

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Predictions 2015: Uber, Google, Apple, Beacons, Health, Nest, China, Adtech…

John Battelle's Searchblog

Last year, for example, I predicted that 2014 would be the year that the Internet would “adopt the planet as its cause.” A good example of this is my declaring that Twitter would become a major media platform three years ago. Predictions 2013. 2013: How I Did. Predictions 2011. 2011: How I Did.

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Predictions 2014: A Difficult Year To See

John Battelle's Searchblog

If you’re wondering what’s made me feel this way, a couple of choice articles from 2013 (and there were too many to count) should do the trick. Last year, for example, I wrote my predictions based mainly on what I wished would happen, not what I thought realistically would. Related: Predictions 2013. 2013: How I Did.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking the Art of Invisibility

ForAllSecure

Vamosi: One sunny morning in 2013. SO I only mention Ross Ulbricht in talks because I use him as an example of an Operation Security, or OpSec failure. In 2013, we only knew that someone calling themselves Dread Pirate Roberts was running the site. In 2011, there a was user in a chat room by the name of altoid, like the mint.

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Predictions 2016: Apple, Tesla, Google, Medium, Adtech, Microsoft, IoT, and Business on a Mission

John Battelle's Searchblog

Examples include sensors in jet engines (and just about everything else of industrial significance), exercise and health wearables , and home automation , to name but a few. Predictions 2013. 2013: How I Did. Predictions 2011. 2011: How I Did. Sports unbundle. That’s pretty much it. 2015: How I Did.

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The debate on the Data Protection Bill in the House of Lords

Data Protector

The biggest changes since our debates on the Data Protection Act 1998, or even the early stages of the GDPR, which I was involved in as a Minister at the MoJ from 2010 to 2013, is that the threat to civil liberties and personal freedoms now comes not only from agencies of the state but from corporate power as well.

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