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DOJ: Russian 'Superhacker' Gets 27 Years In Prison (thedailybeast.com)
According to the Justice Department, a 32-year-old Russian "superhacker" has been sentenced to 27 years in prison for stealing and selling millions of credit-card numbers, causing more than $169 million worth of damages to business and financial institutions. The Daily Beast reports: Roman Valeryevich Seleznev, 32, aka Track2, son of a prominent Russian lawmaker, was convicted last year on 38 counts of computer intrusion and credit-card fraud. "This investigation, conviction and sentence demonstrates that the United States will bring the full force of the American justice system upon cybercriminals like Seleznev who victimize U.S. citizens and companies from afar," said Acting Assistant Attorney General Kenneth Blanco said in a statement. "And we will not tolerate the existence of safe havens for these crimes -- we will identify cybercriminals from the dark corners of the Internet and bring them to justice."
WTF? Since when is the Executive Branch doing the sentencing?!
In Soviet Washington the swamp drains you.
Since Guantanamo Bay and similar "extra-jurisdictional" prisons, starting about 2001.
Obama was droning people daily by the dozen... while the intended targets probably deserved it, the actual targets (mostly civilians/kids in Syria/Lybia/Yemen cannot even sue, cause they do not have "constitutional rights").
Somebody hurry up and get that man another Nobel Peace Prize, and get one for George W. while you are at it...
It's about time the US ditches its 3rd world credit card system and uses something better protected, like mandatory using the chip on the card with a pin code. No more transactions alowed with only the card number, verification date and a 3 digit number that is printed on the card.
The only good thing about the AK-47 was that it was extremely reliable, and also extremely inexpensive to manufacture.
When I see stories of credit card fraud, I have to ask a very simple question:
Why haven't card companies moved to make the fraud process less prone to being abused?
It's trivial to commit CC Fraud even with chips in the card, and it's not likely to have prosecution if you don't do it too frequently or too blatantly. Or if you are a large company. Further, the merchant is the one the frequently has to pay for the fraud, not the card issuer, even if the merchant has "run the card" and been validated.
On the flip side, I had to have a card canceled twice because a company continued to charge it after I closed the account. Turns out the first "cancel", the card issuer "helped me" by informing the people changing my card of my new card number. I had to cancel the card again, and very specifically instruct the card issuer not to redirect any further changes for the card. If it's the wrong number, decline the transaction.
Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.
So the neocons hacked the US government and started a war over nonexistant weapons of mass destruction, penalty, zero. The banksters purposefully ran a scam to inflate profits and their bonuses whilst cheating customers and investors of billions, penalty, zero.
The Russian broke the law, hacked computer networks and copied credit card numbers, which he then sold to criminals. Those criminals did the stealing, fraudulently using those insecure numbers. Compared to those other crimes with zero penalty, what is going on. I was surprised there was no claim of refusal to help or it appears any effort what so ever to get those criminals who used those credit card numbers (makes the whole thing stink of politics). I would have liked to have seen a reduced sentence, say minus a month for each prosecution the defendant helped to gain against the criminals who used the credit card numbers, or at the very least that effort made. Perhaps the Russian government would have cooperated but no politics seemed to have been the focus.
It seems a major opportunity to track down more Russian criminals was wasted, stupid as.
Chaos - everything, everywhere, everywhen
This is journalism lingo for "he's not a script kiddie, and was successful at exploiting vulnerabilities on a large scale".
The dangers of knowledge trigger emotional distress in human beings.
He becomes the next RU president with a nice retirement and in the meantime, he has mafia ties for protection. If a guy is that good, he shouldn't be sent to prison, but made to work in cyber security. If anything, they just helped him find other criminals to make friends with. What a waist. Besides, last time I checked, they considered hacking a form of terrorism, and their SWAT shoots first and asks questions later in that regard. So, it wouldn't surprise me that they're telling the public one thing and really doing something else.
Everyone involved is completely ignoring the fact that the companies involved were not properly secured. It doesn't take a "superhacker" to get past shitty security and we shouldn't be protecting companies with shitty security. Sure, punish the hacker but you need to also punish the executives that decided security shouldn't be the highest priority. When you put profit comes before security, you are asking, nay, begging to get hacked and that's exactly what happened here.
Anons need not reply. Questions end with a question mark.
I've never fired the AK47, only the AK74 and the AK101, but they were both perfectly serviceable at 300m. As a matter of fact, missing the shoulder and head target at 300m was automatic kitchen duty back in basic training, in '88.
I've used much more precise assault rifles... but they all had their problems - too much kick, too high of a rate of fire, and not one was nearly as easy to disassemble and clean as the good ole Kalashnikov.
For its purpose, the Kalashnikov is hard to beat at thrice the price. Of course, when money is no object there are many weapons that are simply better... if you ignore reliability, about which I have little to say, given that I had never the need to use a gun hard and put it away dirty.
No good deed goes unpunished...
So you are saying that they should have been mothballed even before the predecessor of its predecessor had its first flight? How is that even possible?
"It's such a fine line between stupid and clever" -- David St. Hubbins, Spinal Tap
If you want to pick off a commie at 300 yds, it's not.
That's probably why they were manufactured like that: in case they fell into the enemy's hands and the enemy tried to use them against your communist comrades.
Ezekiel 23:20
Sounds like he went to the left army. ;)
Ezekiel 23:20
Tu-95? Don’t let its looks deceive you.
Also, there are supersonic Tu-160 - only 16 such planes in active servive tho.
I'm very apolitical and don't care about Trump or Clinton. Trump is the elected president and therefore it makes no difference to me if he has a low approval rating or if his approvals were to spike to the highest levels on record. The American people wanted him as their president. Russia poured a lot of money into his campaign, it is reported, but they could easily do that to anyone running so I see it as a fair playing field under the current rules.
If Americans lack critical thinking methods to distinguish between astroturf or genuine appeal, then their democracy will extend that lack of intelligence and eventually it will cost them their place in the world as the #1 superpower because the only decisions that weaken the USA in the long run are the ones anyone voting should be concerned with.
I may disagree with all of Trump's policy but my opinion is not important. Only facts are important, which Trump's people are certainly deadset against; they say anything they want and deny factual accounts consistently.
This won't help the USA in the long run and they will certainly pay a high price for this administration's ineptitude in lost GDP and lost global relationships.
But at the end of the day, USA elected him and I believe in democracy.
If I place my hand in a fire and it hurts and my reaction is to place my other hand in the fire so that I notice my first hand's pain less, well then I certainly deserve the consequences of that stupidity.
The dangers of knowledge trigger emotional distress in human beings.