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Russian division of LG accused of using pirated software

Legal history has been made in Russia with the first prosecution of a foreign company for the use of illegal software according to a press release from the Department of Economic Security (DEB). The DEB statement does not name the company but refers to it as being ‘engaged in the production of electronic and household appliances’. Further sources report this to be the Russian division of LG Electronics. A search of the premises by officials...

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Scam member to be deported

U.S. District Court in Charleston Tuesday handed down a three-year prison sentence to Angella Muthoni Chegge-Kraszeski, 34, of Raleigh, NC. Having already served time behind bars Chegge-Kraszeski will spend the next 20 months in the federal prison after which she will be deported back to Kenya. Chegge-Kraszeski, and five other Kenyan nationals already serving time, all pleaded guilty to their various parts in the scam where bank accounts set-up in similar sounding names to existing businesses received over $3 million in re-routed money owed to...

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Hacker gang caught in Moscow

The Moscow offices of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs, known as Service ‘K’, and the Economic Crimes police department report that they have smashed a gang of criminal hackers responsible for stealing more than 500 million rubles (US$16.25 million) in the last year. Goods in possession of the suspects were seized in the operation when around 20 addresses were raided in this joint operation. This huge scam was perpetrated by the Russian hackers through a series of actions. Firstly, unsuspecting victims' computers were infected with...

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Pushdo Takedown Damages Botnet

Last week it was reported that the Pushdo botnet, used to send spam using the Cutwail spamming module, was taken down, thanks to the efforts of several security researchers. Thirty command-and-control (C&C) servers of the Pushdo/Cutwail botnet were identified, almost 20 of which were taken down after their Internet hosting providers were notified. So far, the takedown appears to have been effective. Our monitoring indicates that the volume...

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New Report Investigates Drive-by-Downloads

  A whitepaper entitled ‘When Legitimate Sites Threaten Your Network’ is available from the ComputerWeekly website (registration required). An introduction to the paper describes how cyber criminals are attracted by ‘drive-by’ delivery methods as stealthy forms of attack that trick users into clicking onto pages loaded with Malware. Using these methods organized gangs can effectively and efficiently infect a user’s PC with...

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Better online protection from ASA

  The UK’s Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) is to extend its digital remit to include marketing communications online covering misleading advertising, social responsibility and the protection of children.  Seen as a landmark agreement the ASA's aim is to further protect children and consumers in line with the UK Code of Non-broadcast Advertising, Sales Promotion and Direct Marketing (the CAP Code).  According to ASA Chairman Lord Chris Smith the authority had been unable to deal with the 4,500 complaints about website marketing communications...

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EURid Announces 'DNSSEC key material now in root zone'

EURid, the registry for the .eu top-level domain, is pleased to announce that .eu has a complete ‘chain of trust’ for Domain Name System Security Extensions (DNSSEC), an Internet security standard, with the addition of .eu DNSSEC key material to the Internet’s root zone. The .eu zone was enabled for DNSSEC on 15 June 2010 knowing that the Internet’s highest level, the root zone, would become DNSSEC-compliant at a future date. Indeed, DNSSEC was fully deployed at the Internet root zone during July 2010 creating a single trust anchor. EURid’s...

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ICANN: Committed to Protecting Registrants

The many benefits to registrars in signing ICANN’s most recent RAA (Registrar Accreditation Agreement) from May 2009 are explained in a detailed interview with Tim Cole, Chief Registrar Liaison. An RAA agreement authorizes registrars to sell gTLD domain names to consumers. According to ICANN, consumers are seeking out registrars...

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Mobiles Deactivated in User Registration Crackdown

The anonymous purchase of pre-paid mobile phones will be harder from today in China and Bahrain with the intorduction of new policies aimed at improving public safety. In China both an identity card and registration with a real name will be required from now on when buying a new phone. Current users have until 2013 to register under their real name or be suspended according to the Chinese Global Times. The Kingdom of Bahrain has introduced similar measures today advising users to ensure that...

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