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Russian national Yevgeniy Aleksandrovich Nikulin sentenced to 88 months in prison

Security Affairs

Russian national Yevgeniy Aleksandrovich Nikulin was sentenced to 88 months in prison for hacking LinkedIn, Dropbox, and Formspring in 2012. The Russian national Yevgeniy Aleksandrovich Nikulin was sentenced to 88 months in prison in the United States for hacking LinkedIn, Dropbox, and Formspring in 2012. Source: US Defense Watch.com.

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GovPayNow.com Leaks 14M+ Records

Krebs on Security

14, KrebsOnSecurity alerted GovPayNet that its site was exposing at least 14 million customer receipts dating back to 2012. In July, identity theft protection service LifeLock fixed an information disclosure flaw that needlessly exposed the email address of millions of subscribers. On Friday, Sept.

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Alleged FruitFly malware creator ruled incompetent to stand trial

Malwarebytes

In 2012, as a senior soon to graduate with a physics degree, he worked on a project with faculty member Robert W. While at CWRU, he was accused of “cracking passwords” on a CWRU network. In college at CWRU, he participated in a philosophy club, where he was “interested in the philosophy behind mathematics.”

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How to Prevent Data Leaks

Spinone

Details included names, addresses, telephone numbers, dates of birth and encrypted passwords, all of which could be used to access other accounts belonging to these users. The Hacker had discovered Zuckerberg’s password in a 2012 LinkedIn data breach and he had used the same password across several accounts.

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Project Svalbard: The Future of Have I Been Pwned

Troy Hunt

Increasingly, I was writing about what I thought was a pretty fascinating segment of the infosec industry; password reuse across Gawker and Twitter resulting in a breach of the former sending Acai berry spam via the latter. And while I'm on Sony, the prevalence with which their users applied the same password to their Yahoo!

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

Herjavec Group

1962 — Allan Scherr — MIT sets up the first computer passwords, for student privacy and time limits. Student Allan Scherr makes a punch card to trick the computer into printing off all passwords and uses them to log in as other people after his time runs out. She connects him to any phone number he requests for free.