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mspohr writes "The New York Times has an interesting article about Brian Krebs (Krebs on Security): 'In the last year, Eastern European cybercriminals have stolen Brian Krebs's identity a half dozen times, brought down his website, included his name and some unpleasant epithets in their malware code, sent fecal matter and heroin to his doorstep, and called a SWAT team to his home just as his mother was arriving for dinner.' His reporting is definitely on the edge. 'Mr. Krebs, 41, tries to write pieces that cannot be found elsewhere. His widely read cybersecurity blog, Krebs on Security, covers a particularly dark corner of the Internet: profit-seeking cybercriminals, many based in Eastern Europe, who make billions off pharmaceutical sales, malware, spam, frauds and heists like the recent ones that Mr. Krebs was first to uncover at Adobe, Target and Neiman Marcus.' The article concludes with this: 'Mr. Joffe worries Mr. Krebs's enemies could do far worse. "I don't understand why he hasn't moved to a new, undisclosed address," he said. "But Brian needs a bodyguard."' (He does have a shotgun.)"
Chances are with as high of a high profile as he has, they'd just find him wherever he moves.
Careful with names containing L slashdot.org/~AiphaWolf_HK slashdot.org/~AlphaWoif_HK slashdot.org/~AiphaWoif_HK
No kidding? To-date it seems to have only been reported to be a series of interconnected tubes. Who knew? Has anyone done a study of this? One can only wonder where this all leads to. There can be no good outcome.
You can't be ahead of the curve, if you're stuck in a loop.
A thought just came to me: If drugs are sent to his home often enough while he has plausible deniability, if the SWAT turn up often enough without cause... at which point does this man have immunity from law's scrutiny? At some point, the police will begin to just roll their eyes and tell him to just flush the coke down the drain, won't they? It's only human.
At that point... think of all the possibilities.
He needs a whole new identity to be able to keep wearing the Brian Krebs persona as a modern day Superhero
blindly antisocialist = antisocial
The smart ones are the coders who write the malware, not the criminal morons who use it. The chances of some east european knuckle dragging thug flying to the US , getting through security, tracking this guy down and doing him some harm is pretty slim. I'd be more worried about mafia closer to home who probably also use the malware but being smarter tend to be better at concealing their activities.
The whole thing, back history and all, is the carefully constructed persona of a small security agency out of Washington DC.
As if one person could generate as much output as "Brian Krebs" does.
Fucking A! I just found a new way to get heroin for free!
the mutation is ongoing.... the crooked little finger pointing is epidemic. it's not about us.. help is on the way? the beakers of composted (lhc accident) crown royal dna will not be administered to the custom made (in our own image) monkeys due to wardrobe problems, the new queen of the nile will still be a guy?
What with the recent harsh criticism of Slashdot, I see once again that despite mentioning the fact that the guy has a blog, the editors cannot be bothered to do a simple search and put the link into the story. No, I don't want someone to reply and add the link, that's not what I'm talking about. The lack of self-awareness is just shocking, but then again I suppose that's why commenters are abandoning this site in droves. I'll be off myself shortly, I expect.
Shutting down free speech with violence isn't fighting fascism. It IS fascism!
Hey guys, the bastards seem to have fixed the narrow comment layout of the Beta site.
Dear Americans, please, start distinguishing "Russians" from "Eastern Europeans".
This is a good example of where you need a fast-cycling firearm with decent capacity. Either of the AR / AK platforms would work, as well as a variety of (much more expensive) newer styles. Heck, even a Mini-14.
A shotgun will take care of one guy well enough, but if it's four, you are in deep shit real fast with only 8 or so rounds in a slow loading plaftorm.
Hey guys, the bastards seem to have fixed the narrow comment layout of the Beta site.
Did you see how easily I quoted your post in Classic Slashdot? It was a simple click of the Quote Parent button. Watch, I'll do it again:
Hey guys, the bastards seem to have fixed the narrow comment layout of the Beta site.
So where is the Quote Parent button on beta?
When our name is on the back of your car, we're behind you all the way!
That's all what's necessary for a hit, by basically any local or less local criminal.
If they can send drugs to his doorstep, they can send a hitman too.
In the Summer of 1979, when I was fifteen, I was in the Youth Conservation Corps at Yerba Buena Island, the small island in the middle of San Francisco Bay that has a tunnel through which passes the Oakland Bay Bridge. We mostly cut firebreaks but we also built a nature trail. We stayed in an old firehouse that was right next to the Coast Guard Base, and dined in the Coast Guard enlisted men's mess. During that Summer the Coast Guard made a huge bust of a ship bringing marijuna in from Mexico, in between the hulls of a double-hulled ship. That must have been an intelligence operation, to know which ship to search. Shortly after the bust, my friends in the YCC reported that they were readily able to score pot from the Coast Guard men.
Please mail me URLs of software employers.
It is inevitable, third world technology would reach a critical mass and then overtake the West. Now the brutal dog-eat-dog competition in the third world has created really tough breed of criminals and now they are the cutting edge in criminal behavior.
sed -e 's/Chuck Norris/Rajnikant/g' joke > fact
Wheres Anonymous the defenders of everyone rights? Why don't they do something good for once and actually find the criminals? But my guess is that they are one and the same. Or is all they can do is DOS attacks?
Jack of all trades,master of none
I spent a couple of holidays in an eastern european country known as a major source of e-crime. I have fond memories of time spent in internet cafes trying to complete an assignment while traveling. One place was like a dingy smoke-filled crack den, with cigarette butts floating in an old coffee cup, broken chairs, filthy keyboards where the keys didn't match the characters on the screen, and some guy paying for something with a fist full of fake Rolexes. That was the busiest internet cafe for whatever reason. I wish I could understand what those guys were talking about. At another internet cafe I had an old granny playing online pokies to my left, and some some barely 20 year old guy maintaining his porn site while his girlfriend sat on his lap to my right. Good times :-)
I fully recommend you visit a few internet cafes if you're traveling through eastern europe. They are very cheap, anonymous, and nobody asks any questions. Just leave your credit card, passport, camera, cellphone, whatever is worth stealing in a safe place before you visit.
Human Rights, Article 12: Freedom from Interference with Privacy, Family, Home and Correspondence
See Kim Dotcom interview video - link
http://m.vice.com/vice-news/kim-dotcom-the-man-behind-mega
lazy bums. I looked at the want ads. IT professionals can make 60,000 - 125,000 legally. no fear of jail time for me. i don't mind working 40 hours a week. at least my employer pays for my health insurance.
Keyboard is probably just bait to mess with people who see the photo.
I was hoping for yellow stickies with passwords written on them.