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Iranian hackers breached Albania’s Institute of Statistics (INSTAT)

Security Affairs

The attack did not impact systems employed in the 2013 census. INSTAT will continue its statistical activity and will use alternative means of communication such as the email address instat.albania@gmail.com and the official social media channels, Instagram and Facebook.” The group also claimed to have hacked Air Albania.

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Meet Ika & Sal: The Bulletproof Hosting Duo from Hell

Krebs on Security

From January 2005 to April 2013, there were two primary administrators of the cybercrime forum Spamdot (a.k.a 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. The Spamdot admins went by the nicknames Icamis (a.k.a.

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Ten Years Later, New Clues in the Target Breach

Krebs on Security

18, 2013, KrebsOnSecurity broke the news that U.S. retail giant Target was battling a wide-ranging computer intrusion that compromised more than 40 million customer payment cards over the previous month. By the first week of December, 2013, Rescator’s online store — rescator[.]la Kink,” “Mr. Heppner,” and “Ms.

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A job ad published by the UK’s Ministry of Defence revealed a secret hacking squad

Security Affairs

The existence of a secret SAS mobile hacker squad, named MAB5 and under the control of the Computer Network Operations (CNO) Exploitation, was revealed by a job ad published by the UK’s Ministry of Defence on an external website, reported Alan Turnbull of Secret Bases. His email address and phone number were also listed in the advert.”

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Confessions of an ID Theft Kingpin, Part I

Krebs on Security

Now, after more than seven years in prison Hieupc is back in his home country and hoping to convince other would-be cybercrooks to use their computer skills for good. Ten years ago, then 19-year-old hacker Ngo was a regular on the Vietnamese-language computer hacking forums. Hieu Minh Ngo, in his teens. to face prosecution.

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Snowden Ten Years Later

Schneier on Security

In 2013 and 2014, I wrote extensively about new revelations regarding NSA surveillance based on the documents provided by Edward Snowden. I wrote the essay below in September 2013. I didn’t know either of them, but I have been writing about cryptography, security, and privacy for decades. It made sense. Probably not.

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Creating Records at Home, Part I: Microsoft Teams

The Texas Record

Organizations have rushed to adopt new technologies and remote communication software, often before records management capabilities have been evaluated. There are many different types of collaborative software and communication platforms. In other words, why was it installed on all your computers and cellphones in the first place?