December 2009
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Document Reveals TJX Hacker’s Assistance to... →
Admitted TJX hacker Albert Gonzalez has identified two Russian accomplices who helped him hack into numerous companies and steal more than 130 million credit and debit card numbers. Gonzalez told prosecutors that the hackers breached at least four card processing companies, as well as a series of foreign banks, a brokerage house and several retail store chains, according to a sentencing memo filed...
TJX Hacker Was Awash in Cash; His Penniless Coder... →
Accused TJX hacker kingpin Albert Gonzalez called his credit card theft ring “Operation Get Rich or Die Tryin.” He spent $75,000 on a birthday party for himself and once complained that he had to manually count $340,000 in pilfered $20 bills because his counting machine broke. But while Gonzalez apparently lived high off ill-gotten gains, a programmer who claims he earned nothing from the scheme...
Hacking Godfather ‘Maksik’ Sentenced to 30 Years... →
A Ukrainian cybercrime lord linked to nearly every major breach of U.S. retail networks in the past four years was sentenced this week to 30 years in prison by a Turkish court. His sentence was on unrelated charges of hacking banks in that country, according to reports. Maksym Yastremski is alleged to be “Maksik,” well-known in the underground as a top online seller of stolen credit...
http://www.ustreas.gov/offices/enforcement/ofac/sdn... →
ALPHABETICAL LISTING OF SPECIALLY DESIGNATED NATIONALS AND BLOCKED PERSONS:
This publication of Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) is designed as a reference tool providing actual notice of actions by OFAC with respect to Specially Designated Nationals and other persons whose property is blocked, to assist the public in complying with the various sanctions...
Tokyo 492 →
Tokyo 492, originally uploaded by chrisjongkind.
The Large Hadron Collider/ATLAS at CERN →
The Large Hadron Collider/ATLAS at CERN, originally uploaded by Image Editor.
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BBC News - Cameroon revealed as web threat hotspot →
More than one third of websites in the West African country of Cameroon pose a security risk to surfers according to a new report by security expert McAfee. Web addresses for Cameroon end “.cm” - attracting careless web users who wrongly type “.com”. Fraudsters take advantage of spelling mistakes and typing errors to set up false sites that may look similar to those the...