Collaborate Disseminate
In this third installment of the series (Part 1, Part 2), we come back to the story in early 2007 when a Secret Service agent operating out of San Diego takes a flight halfway across the world. He’s going to meet with Europe’s most prolific stole… Continue reading Malicious Life Podcast: The Life and Exploits of Albert Gonzales Part 3
In this second installment of the series (listen to Albert Gonzales Part 1 here), Gonzales is working with the Secret Service and apparently doing an outstanding job. He was such a good employee, in fact, that they had him doing seminars for staff… Continue reading Malicious Life Podcast: The Life and Exploits of Albert Gonzales Part 2
A lawyer for an alleged player in one of the largest hacking schemes in history says he is talking with the Department of Justice about the possibility of bringing his client to the U.S. to stand trial. Mikhail Rytikov can’t leave his home country of Ukraine because he would risk becoming the latest Eastern European snatched up by Western law enforcement and charged in cybercrimes. The 30-year-old, who lives in Odessa on the coast of the Black Sea, allegedly participated in criminal schemes by running a profitable “bulletproof hosting” business — servers that police supposedly can’t block or access — known as AbdAllah. Ukraine doesn’t extradite its own citizens, so Rytikov is theoretically safe as long as he stays close to home. But he vehemently denies any wrongdoing, and apparently wants to set the record straight. His lawyer in the U.S., Arkady Bukh, told CyberScoop he is negotiating with the Department of Justice about the possibility of standing trial in […]
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It wasn’t *only* SQL injection, but it shows how far you can go if a company exposes its soft and fleshy parts to the internet. Continue reading Hackers sentenced for SQL injections that cost $300 million