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Russian Cybersecurity Executive Arrested for Alleged Role in 2012 Megahacks

Krebs on Security

Nikita Kislitsin , formerly the head of network security for one of Russia’s top cybersecurity firms, was arrested last week in Kazakhstan in response to 10-year-old hacking charges from the U.S. Department of Justice. A 2010 indictment out of New Jersey accuses Ieremenko and six others with siphoning nonpublic information from the U.S.

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Cybersecurity Report: June 29, 2015

SiteLock

According to Wikileaks, the whistleblower website, the US National Security Agency (NSA) has been spying on French President Jacques Chirac, Nicolas Sarkozy and Francois Hollande in 2006-2012, Wikileaks says. Follow the SiteLock blog for the latest cybersecurity news. Almost Half of Leading Websites Fail Security and Privacy Tests.

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Is The Cost Of Predictive Cyber Security Worth The Investment?

Security Boulevard

Cybersecurity Events Becoming More Predictable ? With the advancements in cybersecurity science, mathematics and physics, and, of course, a good dose of luck, there is light at the end of the tunnel regarding predictable cybersecurity capabilities. Those people belong in the Internet Hall of Fame. per month.

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

Krebs on Security

According to cybersecurity firm Constella Intelligence , the address polkas@bk.ru That Bankir account was registered from the Internet address 193.27.237.66 Cyber intelligence firm Intel 471 found that Internet address also was used to register the account “Nordex” on the Russian hacking forum Exploit back in 2006.

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The Essential Guide to Radio Frequency Penetration Testing

Pen Test

In contemporary times, with the exponential growth of the Internet of Things (IoT), smart homes, connected cars, and wearable devices, the importance of RF pentesting has soared significantly. GHz and 5 GHz bands, providing high-speed wireless internet connectivity (Kurkovsky, 2006). What is Radio Frequency (RF)?

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Why Malware Crypting Services Deserve More Scrutiny

Krebs on Security

Those records indicate the user Kerens registered on Verified in March 2009 from an Internet address in Novosibirsk, a city in the southern Siberian region of Russia. One of the domains registered in 2006 to the address unforgiven57@mail.ru In 2010, someone with the username Pepyak on the Russian language affiliate forum GoFuckBiz[.]com

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The Origins and History of the Dark Web

Identity IQ

The Origins and History of the Dark Web IdentityIQ The dark web is a hidden part of the internet that cannot be accessed as easily. The dark web consists of websites and services that operate anonymously and aren’t accessible in the “public” part of the internet. The deep web is far and away the largest part of the internet.