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Estonia sues Gemalto for 152M euros over flaws in citizen ID cards issued by the company

Security Affairs

.” In November 2017, Estonia announced that it would suspend security digital certificates for up to 760,000 state-issued electronic ID-cards that are using the buggy chips to mitigate the risk of identity theft.

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Cyber CEO: The History Of Cybercrime, From 1834 To Present

Herjavec Group

Investigators determined that two hackers, known as Datastream Cowboy and Kuji, are behind the attack. government websites in 1998 and is sentenced to 18 months in prison in 2001. After being released in 2003, he uses WiFi to commit attacks, program malware and steal credit card information. retailer (Polo Ralph Lauren).