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Tech CEO Sentenced to 5 Years in IP Address Scheme

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By 2013, a number of Micfo’s customers had landed on the radar of Spamhaus , a group that many network operators rely upon to stem the tide of junk email.

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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.

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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. In 2013, U.S. The proxy lookup page inside the malware-based anonymity service Faceless. Image: spur.us.

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