Hacker news:
Climategate emails hacked from Tomsk (Daily Mail)? Coincidentally, top St Petersburg hacker Viktor Pleshchuk is a graduate of Tomsk university (Fontanka, in Russian).
The website of Moskovski Komsomolets newspaper has been attacked by South Korean hackers and some of the content - video and photo files - irrevocably destroyed (GZT.RU, in Russian).
NATO names Russian Business Network (RBN) as the major cyberspace threat (Newsweek, in Russian).
Climategate emails hacked from Tomsk (Daily Mail)? Coincidentally, top St Petersburg hacker Viktor Pleshchuk is a graduate of Tomsk university (Fontanka, in Russian).
The website of Moskovski Komsomolets newspaper has been attacked by South Korean hackers and some of the content - video and photo files - irrevocably destroyed (GZT.RU, in Russian).
NATO names Russian Business Network (RBN) as the major cyberspace threat (Newsweek, in Russian).
Sources in the hacker world say that the creator of RBN was Belorussian Alexander Rubatsky. He was born into the family of a policeman in Minsk but did not follow in his father's footsteps. First he worked for a local child-pornography dealer, then he struck out on his own. Rumour has it he also began by distributing pornography. The company he founded received payments through the Kiberplat system. In 2002 Kiberplat was involved in scandal. Six of its top managers were sacked for servicing sites involved in child pornography. After this Rubatsky is supposed to have started a new business - he created RBN on the foundation of the St Petersburg [telecoms] operator Eltel. In 2007 RBN transformed itself into a Criminal Internationale...Finally: site offering to provide the correspondence of anyone on the Vkontakte social site (vkontaktereader). Scam?
