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Alleged Russian cybercriminal extradited to the US

Jan

2012

A suspected Russian cybercriminal arrived in Manhattan on Tuesday to face charges of security fraud, computer hacking and ID theft after being deported from Switzerland. Vladimir Zdorovenin, 54, of Moscow, and his son, Kirill Zdorovenin, both Russian citizens, are facing nine charges for allegedly masterminding credit card theft and stock manipulation scams. The duo was […]

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LulzSec attacks US Senate and Bethesda Softworks

Jun

2011

Apparently committing crimes for the “lulz” is still entertaining for the group known as LulzSec. They announced their latest conquests around 12:30pm PDT today, senate.gov and Bethesda Softworks. Nothing terribly secret was lost in the breach of the US Senate’s web server. LulzSec posted some basic information on the filesystems, user logins and the Apache […]

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President Obama’s cybersecurity plan – Part 2 Data Breach Notification Act

May

2011

Following up on yesterday’s post outlining the proposed changes to RICO and the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, today I will dissect the White House’s proposal for the National Data Breach Notification Act. Currently 47 states have data breach notification laws with varying rules and requirements. This makes it very difficult for national and multinational […]

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