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Nope all over this article. >If you want to buy a botnet, it'll cost you somewhere in the region of $700 Very vague. >ZeuS source code: $200-$500 Nope, total bullshit. It is widely available. [1] >SOCKS bot (to get around firewalls): $100 Nope. "Socks bot" refers to the ability to convert an infected computer into a SOCKSv5 proxy >Unintelligent exploit bundle: $25 This refers to exploit packs, which is obfuscated sof…
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Any more information to this story? Do you know how they did it?
I'm sorry but I don't know how did he do it. I was wondered when I saw that I can't login in to my gmail account. I thought that it's impossible someone to hack my gmail account, because Google is a big company they should have some good codes there. But it's possible. In that day my friend sent my new password per sms my and said that it was a joke. if you want to hire someone, go to free-lance.ru, in left menu sele…
If you couldn't log in, he did it by guessing the answers to your security questions based on other stuff he could find out about you online, and resetting your password (possibly resetting or taking control of your backup email account that you had your new password set to send to, you should check all that stuff).
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A year ago a "friend" of me hired a russian hacker, just for a joke, and he hacked my gmail, twitter and facebook accounts. And the passwords were random 10 caracters or something like that. He hired the hacker in free-lance.ru
You say "passwords" were they all the same password or was your gmail password unique to gmail?
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Oh yes, yes! Totally agree! In my comment I've been referring to a typical russian mentality. And Russian Jews have a very different mentality, from the one I've been referring to.
Typical Russian mentality is thorough approach to problem solving and having a good rest afterwards. Russian language itself structurally teaches your brain to be more abstract.
It has always fascinated me how history, individuals, geography and natural resources influenced people, their mentality in various world regions. While Russia is rich for natural resources (diamonds, gas, oil), just a few people profit from them. Next tear of wealthy individuals mostly profit from serving those who profit from natural resources… Natural resources imply that value is already created. You dont have to…
The resource curse is very real and well documented: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_curse The only seeming exception I can think of is Norway, which has a highly unusual massive government savings program to deal with its oil wealth, and then only discovered that wealth fairly recently.
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Typical Russian mentality is thorough approach to problem solving and having a good rest afterwards. Russian language itself structurally teaches your brain to be more abstract.
Interesting observation. Have you heard of Korzybski?
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Interesting observation. Have you heard of Korzybski?
Nope, but thank you for the reference. My observation comes from the wild, and is confirmed by observations of fellow Russian programmers and sysadmins who lived and worked in the US and the UK. Actually I'd better refer to Bekhtereva and Stalin, who observed quite the same thing from very different perspectives.
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The resource curse is very real and well documented: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_curse The only seeming exception I can think of is Norway, which has a highly unusual massive government savings program to deal with its oil wealth, and then only discovered that wealth fairly recently.
Canada.