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Meet Ika & Sal: The Bulletproof Hosting Duo from Hell

Krebs on Security

Spamit), an invite-only community for Russian-speaking people in the businesses of sending spam and building botnets of infected computers to relay said spam. Penchukov) — fled his mandatory military service orders and was arrested in Geneva, Switzerland. The Spamdot admins went by the nicknames Icamis (a.k.a. 9, 2024).

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Israel’s Pager Attacks and Supply Chain Vulnerabilities

Schneier on Security

Our computers are vulnerable, and increasingly so are our cars, our refrigerators, our home thermostats and many other useful things in our orbits. In 2007 the Idaho National Laboratory demonstrated that a cyberattack could cause a high-voltage generator to explode. The targets won’t be just terrorists. Targets are everywhere.