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An Interview With the Target & Home Depot Hacker

Krebs on Security

” Dmitri Golubov, circa 2005. Golubov was arrested in Ukraine in 2005 as part of a joint investigation with multiple U.S. . “My nickname was MikeMike, and I worked with Dmitri Golubov and made technologies for him,” Shefel said. “I’m also godfather of his second son.” Image: U.S. ” he inquired.

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Capital One Data Theft Impacts 106M People

Krebs on Security

That data included approximately 140,000 Social Security numbers and approximately 80,000 bank account numbers on U.S. “Importantly, no credit card account numbers or log-in credentials were compromised and over 99 percent of Social Security numbers were not compromised,” Capital One said in a statement posted to its site.

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Attacks against game companies are up. But why?

SC Magazine

A young woman plays on the Electronic Arts (EA) newest product “Sims2 – Nightlife” at a Computer Gaming Convention on August 18, 2005 in Leipzig, Germany. That represents a 340% increase year-over-year, a 415% increase since 2018 and accounted for about 4% of the more than 6.3 Photo by Andreas Rentz/Getty Images).

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Attacks against machine learning — an overview

Elie

This strategy is mostly carried out by implementing rate limiting on scarce resources such as IP and accounts. The negative side effect of such active rate limiting is that it creates an incentive for bad actors to create fake accounts and use compromised user computers to diversify their pool of IPs. active blackmarket.

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The bleak picture of two-factor authentication adoption in the wild

Elie

Performing a longitudinal analysis highlights that the adoption rate of 2FA (two-factor authentication) has been mostly stagnant over the last five years, despite the ever increasing number of accounts hijacked due to the. in 2005 and TOTP in. reuse of passwords found in data breaches and phishing attacks. HOTP was standardized in the.

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Attacks against machine learning — an overview

Elie

This strategy is mostly carried out by implementing rate limiting on scarce resources such as IP and accounts. The negative side effect of such active rate limiting is that it creates an incentive for bad actors to create fake accounts and use compromised user computers to diversify their pool of IPs. active blackmarket.

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$10M Is Yours If You Can Get This Guy to Leave Russia

Krebs on Security

Launched in 2005, Try2Check soon was processing more than a million card-checking transactions per month — charging 20 cents per transaction. ” That handle used the same ICQ instant messenger account number ( 555724 ) as a Mazafaka denizen named “ Nordex.” Denis Kulkov, a.k.a. Image: USDOJ. In 2017, U.S.