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17 year old fingered as author of malware used in Target attack
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Posted on 01/18/2014 9:03:36 AM PST by Sub-Driver

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To: HiTech RedNeck

I’m sorry you didn’t have time to read USC post.


41 posted on 01/18/2014 9:51:57 AM PST by Balding_Eagle (Over production, one of the top 5 worries for the American Farmer every year.)
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To: usconservative

Just a first stab, and as you say there are counter examples. (If it IS a counter example... I’m curious who did that retrospective Google for Tsarnaev... does Google have Wayback capability? Don’t want to just be tooting our horn in vain.)


42 posted on 01/18/2014 9:52:09 AM PST by HiTech RedNeck (The Lion of Judah will roar for you if you give him a big hug and a cheer and mean it. See my page.)
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To: Balding_Eagle

Unfortunately I *did* read it. And that’s my reaction. Old Windows, not updated. And so?? If Microsoft wants to keep a reputation it won’t just sit on its hands.


43 posted on 01/18/2014 9:53:18 AM PST by HiTech RedNeck (The Lion of Judah will roar for you if you give him a big hug and a cheer and mean it. See my page.)
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To: HiTech RedNeck
What would really be great is if MICROSOFT would hire him, and take some of his advice.

Or never shop with any company that
uses Internal facing microsoft servers.

44 posted on 01/18/2014 9:54:15 AM PST by Uri’el-2012 (Psalm 119:174 I long for Your salvation, YHvH, Your teaching is my delight.)
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To: UriÂ’el-2012

As if.

Everyone has room to raise their ethics quotient here.


45 posted on 01/18/2014 9:55:17 AM PST by HiTech RedNeck (The Lion of Judah will roar for you if you give him a big hug and a cheer and mean it. See my page.)
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To: Sub-Driver

holy cow!!!


46 posted on 01/18/2014 9:56:20 AM PST by dennisw (The first principle is to find out who you are then you can achieve anything -- Buddhist monk)
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To: Sub-Driver

Wasn’t it recently that Kerry was gifting potatoes to Russian diplomats? It seemed odd at the time, not so much now.


47 posted on 01/18/2014 9:57:01 AM PST by hmmmmm
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To: HiTech RedNeck
Can't speak to any "wayback" capability -- I'm sure someone on here knows how to search Google's cache better than I.

I can only speak to the days following the Boston Bombing's, the only references to "Tsarnaev" and "Chechnya" were related to the bombing. I looked to see what I could find. Everything prior to that day on "Tsarnaev" and "Chechnya" turned up nothing.

I should correct myself here: that may not mean there was nothing .....

48 posted on 01/18/2014 9:59:01 AM PST by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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To: usconservative

And so it is.

So could it be Chechnya. I don’t know. I haven’t followed the trends in Russian hacking. My feeling, only a feeling and it could be wrong, about these hackers, is that if they are radical Muslims, they are young ones. Radical Islam screws up one’s brain eventually with all its demonic spiritual crap.


49 posted on 01/18/2014 10:03:23 AM PST by HiTech RedNeck (The Lion of Judah will roar for you if you give him a big hug and a cheer and mean it. See my page.)
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To: UriÂ’el-2012
Or never shop with any company that uses Internal facing microsoft servers.

You're making a hell of an assumption: no one said that the servers that were breached were Microsoft.

The only details of the breach that have been released thus far have been that the Point of Sale systems that Target used involved using customized (in-house) developed software running on top of Windows XP Embedded POS.

Now if you're saying "don't shop anywhere where Windows XP Embedded POS / OS is used" .... good luck with that. It's (unfortunately) one of the most popular platforms for POS systems.

A better position to take might be this: If you're out shopping and want to remain completely safe from credit card information theft ... pay cash!

Best carry a gun with you too while carrying that cash ..

50 posted on 01/18/2014 10:03:30 AM PST by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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To: Sub-Driver
A 17 year old Russian hacker who goes by the online handle of "ree4" 

His nickname is reefer? Maybe this kid is really from Colorado?

-PJ

51 posted on 01/18/2014 10:04:20 AM PST by Political Junkie Too (If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
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To: usconservative
I do !

52 posted on 01/18/2014 10:06:22 AM PST by Uri’el-2012 (Psalm 119:174 I long for Your salvation, YHvH, Your teaching is my delight.)
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To: HiTech RedNeck
My guess that there's Chechnyan roots are based solely on the name and similarity to other Chechen names. Of course, I could be completely wrong ... gee, that's never happened on here before! ;-)

There's alot of speculation that this is Russian Mafia, could be them too. They do have a history of stealing credit card info. and selling to the highest bidders.

53 posted on 01/18/2014 10:06:24 AM PST by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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To: usconservative

Does anyone have a Chechnyan phone book?

A thoroughly Roosky name doesn’t mean a whole lot in a place that has extreme Islamist recruiting going on. Islam is tailor made for the disaffected, and Russia is still a mess. Christianity has helped Russia, but its practice is still kind of jaded. At least that is my view and it could be askew. (I am a poet and I know it.)


54 posted on 01/18/2014 10:15:13 AM PST by HiTech RedNeck (The Lion of Judah will roar for you if you give him a big hug and a cheer and mean it. See my page.)
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To: Sub-Driver

BTTT


55 posted on 01/18/2014 10:32:00 AM PST by onyx (Please Support Free Republic - Donate Monthly! If you want on Sarah Palin's Ping List, Let Me know!)
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To: Sub-Driver

The Obama care site is said to be a security risk.

Any ideas out there on how it can be done?


56 posted on 01/18/2014 10:36:52 AM PST by bert ((K.E. N.P. N.C. +12 ..... History is a process, not an event)
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To: McGruff

OMG your pic brings back memories of that fake mini-giraffe sites that popped up after that! Cleverly done and so hilarious!


57 posted on 01/18/2014 10:39:29 AM PST by austinaero
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but no reports of anyone actually getting robbed.

You probably won't since card theft is random across the country. For example, my credit card info was stolen maybe 6 years ago and someone charged up over $7,000 worth of stuff in Louisville, KY.

Basically it's local crime stuff that the papers never worry about.....

58 posted on 01/18/2014 10:39:42 AM PST by Hot Tabasco (Miss Muffit suffered from arachnophobia.....)
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To: usconservative

“I’m willing to bet that some research will turn up he’s either from, or has family in the Chechen region and ties to a muslim radical group.

Anyone want to take that bet?”

I, myself, was wondering the same thing,,or if he had any ties to Boston.


59 posted on 01/18/2014 10:41:01 AM PST by austinaero
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To: HiTech RedNeck

I’d rather the punk do time, get used and abused in prison, learn a lesson THEN get a legitimate job........


60 posted on 01/18/2014 10:42:32 AM PST by Hot Tabasco (Miss Muffit suffered from arachnophobia.....)
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