Collaborate Disseminate
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The same hacker was once known as “international hacker-for-hire.” Karim Baratov,
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A hacker who lived the high life with expensive cars has been sentenced to jail for his part in a serious security breach at Yahoo.
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A 23-year-old Canadian man, who pleaded guilty last year for his role in helping Russian government spies hack into email accounts of Yahoo users and other services, has been sentenced to five years in prison.
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A 23-year-old man who pleaded guilty for his role in helping Russian spies hack into email accounts was sentenced to five years in prison on Tuesday. Karim Baratov, a Kazakhstan-born Canadian citizen, was arrested in Toronto last year before being extradited to the United States. Prosecutors say he was part of a group working with two intelligence agents from Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB). Baratov pleaded guilty in November for playing a role in the massive 2014 Yahoo data breach. That breach saw information tied to 500 million accounts stolen from the company. He was also charged with helping Russian spies hack into 11,000 email accounts. Sentencing came later than initially planned after Judge Vince Chhabria told prosecutors last month that their request of an eight-year sentence seemed “way out of whack compared to most hackers.” Baratov’s lawyers were asking for a 45-month sentence. After further filings from the government […]
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Ok so, we’ve got a situation here that sounds a bit hopeless, but it’s happening right now and we could really use some help. Please bear with me here as I try to explain…
Recently, my wife and I were on a vacation abroad,… Continue reading Recovering locked-out accounts after losing smartphone
I was doing a Cyber Security and IT audit for a company.
I was told that they had very little in terms of fraud protection, one of the only ways that they detected potential fraudsters was by manually checking if the email … Continue reading Why do scammers use emails like yahoo?
In the news, SEC fines Yahoo $35 million for not reporting cyber breach, hackers found using a new code injection technique to evade detection, Microsoft dismantles it’s Windows Development Group, & more on this episode of Application Securi… Continue reading FDA, Microsoft, & Android – Application Security Weekly #14
It’s password security’s Achilles heel: too many people make life easy for cybercriminals by re-using the same ones over and over. But what if there were a way for websites to compare notes on whether a password (or similar password) has been set by a … Continue reading Could this be the end of password re-use?
Ah Yahoo! in trouble again, this time the news is Yahoo! fined for 35 million USD by the SEC for the 2 years delayed disclosure of the massive hack, we actually reported on the incident in 2016 when it became public – Massive Yahoo Hack – 500 Million A… Continue reading Yahoo! Fined 35 Million USD For Late Disclosure Of Hack