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Meet Ika & Sal: The Bulletproof Hosting Duo from Hell

Krebs on Security

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. Icamis and Sal were in daily communications with these botmasters, via the Spamdot forum and private messages. The Spamdot admins went by the nicknames Icamis (a.k.a.

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Encryption: How It Works, Types, and the Quantum Future

eSecurity Planet

As networks evolved and organizations adopted internet communications for critical business processes, these cryptographic systems became essential for protecting data. Quantum computing attacks already present a real threat to existing standards, making the continued development of encryption pivotal for years to come.