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Time to check your DNS settings?

14

Jan

2012

On Wednesday, the German Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) published a press release advising users to recheck DNS server settings on their computers. This recommendation is related to the successful botnet takedown – dubbed ‘Operation Ghost Click’ – led by the FBI during November 2011. The bad guys behind this botnet had infested approximately […]

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FBI: Operation Ghost Click

10

Nov

2011

A US court has indicted seven men (6 Estonians and 1 Russian) as part of the US Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Operation Ghost Click. Estonian authorities have made 6 arrests, the Russian defendant is still at large. Long time blog readers should remember one of the defendants, Vladimir T?a?t?in (aka “SCR”), from Case EstDomains, circa […]

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DNSChanger Fraud Ring Busted

10

Nov

2011

Here’s a money making idea: find some advertisers and tell them you can put their ads on billboards at half the going rate. You don't own any billboards? No problem, just go paste the ads over the ones on someone else's billboards. This idea has not really caught on in the real world—it's impractical to […]

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