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Tech CEO Sentenced to 5 Years in IP Address Scheme

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Golestan’s sentencing comes nearly two years after he pleaded guilty to using an elaborate network of phony companies to secure more than 735,000 Internet Protocol (IP) addresses from the American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN), the nonprofit which oversees IP addresses assigned to entities in the U.S.,

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Giving a Face to the Malware Proxy Service ‘Faceless’

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Riley Kilmer is co-founder of Spur.us , a company that tracks thousands of VPN and proxy networks, and helps customers identify traffic coming through these anonymity services. as a media sharing device on a local network that was somehow exposed to the Internet. 2012, from an Internet address in Magnitogorsk, RU. In 2013, U.S.

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Experian, You Have Some Explaining to Do

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“Experian now sometimes does require MFA for me now if I use a new browser or have my VPN on,” Rishi said, but he’s not sure if Experian’s free service would have operated differently. “We believe these are isolated incidents of fraud using stolen consumer information,” Experian’s statement reads.