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SEC: Hacker Manipulated Stock Prices
U.S. regulators are moving to freeze the assets and trading accounts of a Russian accused of hacking into personal online portfolios and manipulating the price of dozens of stocks listed on the Nasdaq Stock Market and New York Stock Exchange. The Securities and Exchange Commission is asking a federal judge to freeze all movement of assets of Broco Investments, believed to be a one-trader operation based in St.
Continue reading »etc: Surfers in Russia, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE will soon be able to use their non-Latin alphabets to enter URLs.
Surfers in Russia, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE will soon be able to use their non-Latin alphabets to enter URLs.
Continue reading »7-Eleven Hack From Russia Led to ATM Looting in New York
Flashback, early 2008. Citibank officials are witnessing a huge spike in fraudulent withdrawals from New York area ATMs — $180,000 is stolen from cash machines on the Upper East Side in just three days. After a stakeout, police arrest one man walking out of a bank with thousands of dollars in cash, and 12 reprogrammed cards. A lucky traffic stop catches two more cashers who’d driven in from Michigan.
Continue reading »Verizon: Data Breaches Getting More Sophisticated
Methods of stealing data are becoming increasingly sophisticated, but attackers are still gaining initial access to networks through known, preventable vulnerabilities, according to a report released by Verizon Business on Wednesday. “Attacks are getting more sophisticated and more difficult to prevent,” said Wade Baker, research and intelligence principal for Verizon Business’s RISK Team, in an interview. “The attackers still usually get in the network through some relatively mundane attacks.
Continue reading »Modern Warfare 2 upsets Russians
Once upon a time, the males of a nation — any nation — worked off their bloodlust by going to war and killing each other. Nowadays, there are plenty of global conflicts, but they’re largely commercial ventures fostered by business interests and relatively speaking, they don’t employ all that many young men —- —- or young women, as is increasingly the case. And that may be one of the reasons you can’t keep a good video game with “blood, drug reference, intense violence and language” from becoming a raging success.
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