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FBI – Cyber’s Most Wanted

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I notice substantial overlap between the things these men are wanted for and what the NSA and FBI have been doing....

What about Andrey Nabilevich Taame?

He hijacked people's DNS and replaced ads. Doesn't Comcast do that?

And how about CARLOS ENRIQUE PEREZ-MELARA?

He sold a key logger, and didn't even have the key logger send the information back to himself. The only thing that seems criminal is that it allowed purchasers to install it using a drive-by exploit.

Comcast only "hijacks" your DNS if you use their servers. Opendns does the same, btw.

If all this talk of Comcast is about them doing ad pages for NXDOMAIN results, these jokes/digs on them are rather stale - and incorrect.

When Comcast switched to DNSSEC, they dropped their (non-existent) domain hijacking as it was an incompatible practice ... Almost 2 years ago, infact.

http://dns.comcast.net/index.php/help#faq2

I don't have love for Comcast but please do make accurate commentary.

The NSA and FBI don't like competition.

Credit card and financial fraud? That's the common thread across all these postings.

I laughed so hard when I noticed "Fun & Games" in the menu.

There's a requirement on the books that federal agencies have to provide a "for kids" section of their web sites.

Other examples:

https://www.cia.gov/kids-page/

http://www.nsa.gov/kids/

Due to a 1997 Bill Clinton memo directing federal agencies develop and share online educational resources. http://clinton2.nara.gov/WH/New/NetDay/memorandum.html

I'm finding the fact that almost every page in the CIA site's 6-12 section has the same "classroom" stock photo to be inexplicably unnerving.

50% Russian. Nice!

Almost, still that demonstrates how good Russians got at exploiting the system.

I disagree, it demonstrates that the US government has a hard time prosecuting Russians.

Actually, it only demonstrates the effect of the lack of an extradition treaty with Russia.

We're splitting hairs here, so what about the possibility of Russian and US law enforcement cooperating under the Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty, or similar agreements, but not extraditing?

Or the the lack of a extradition treaty to the west - dont want Andrey Lugovoy extradited The MET police and presumably the security service have some questions they would like to ask him a few questions.

...or more likely to be identified due to poor skills.

"Those sneaky fucking Russians."

Or how good they are at receiving exploit infos from FBI/NSA, who create them.

Russian hackers/coders are good and there is no doubt about it. Former USSR mathematicians and scientists were always good so it so no surprise that Russians have strong cyber security and cyber crime minds. People like to downplay it but the trend is there. I recall carderplanet, one of the biggest credit card fraud community in the world, and some recent nasty malware that were developed there. Gotta give them credit.

out of 4 Russian sounding last names, 2 are Latvian citizens, born there in 87 and 89. Latvia got separated somewhen during 89-91. Considering the situation with Russians in Baltic states, these guys are most probably not "Latvians", yet they are probably noticeably different from "Russians" (similarly to children of many Russian immigrants in US).

Five:

- ALEXSEY BELAN: Belan has Russian citizenship and is known to hold a Russian passport

- PETERIS SAHUROVS: Sahurovs is thought to be in Rezekne, Latvia. He may also visit Kiev, Ukraine

- ARTEM SEMENOV: Semenov speaks both Russian and English, although his English may not be that good. He tends to stay close to Russian communities.

- ALEXANDR SERGEYEVICH BOBNEV: Bobnev has a Russian Passport and has ties to Russia.

- ANDREY NABILEVICH TAAME: Taame speaks both English and Russian. He holds a Russian passport and Russian citizenship.

Taame born in Siria, the last name isn't Russian, very frequently it would mean that his father was some Sirian guy (named Nabil or Nabeel [an Arabian male name] as Russian middle names are given base on the name of the father) sent for education, civilian or military, to USSR who married and brought back a Russian girl.

Given that he has russian (slavic) first name that sounds plausible.

>> The FBI is offering a reward of up to $20,000 for information leading to the arrest and conviction of Shaileshkumar P. Jain.

i find the wording of such reward offerings quite disturbing. it means that the FBI considers these people guilty before there's even been a trial. or is there another way to look at it?

I don't know, it does say conviction too. It feels more that it can be read as "We're pretty sure this is the guy we want, help us catch him AND jail him, and we'll give you $5"

You're not going to try and arrest them if you don't think their guilty...

they all have names like mine...no "Tom Jones" or "Chris Sullivan's" here

BJORN DANIEL SUNDIN can be counted as representative of western world in this list.

Hearing suits (usually over 50) talk about technology and the Internet gets painful.

They're obsessed with the word "Cyber." "We have a war on Cyber!" "We need to hire more people to make Cyber secure!"

You can always pick out the guys who have done real work in the DC area, because they don't even flinch when you say cyber. Valley geeks freak out like you just questioned their startups valuation.

It's like walking up and saying "Could you send me an electronic mail message to my apple internet phone?" It labels them as "outsider" with poser knowledge, except they wield power and define internal politics (and, as we've seen leaked this year, make endless powerpoint presentations to other departments).

Nice casual ageism.

Okay, that's the one thing all you old people[1] jumped on as the Offense Token of the post.

But, really, it's old guys in suits in the government/military who are obsessed with labeling things "Cyber."

I was thinking of this guy specifically since we have video evidence: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MX488s19yE (He clearly doesn't know exactly what he's talking about, so he uses "Cyber" every chance he can.)

[1]: The scale of ages are:

  0-16: Youth
  17-24: Middle Age
  25-89: Old
  90+: Good for you, hope you're not in too much pain.

If you haven't made your millions in Middle Age, there's no hope and you should be subservient to the closest 22 year old who has cashed out $10 million in his last equity round. [yes, I'm aware of who I'm replying to. I'm entitled to ramble.]

' [just] the government/military who are obsessed with labeling things "Cyber." '

By extension, this means anyone who works with them, which means in turn any FTSE/NASDAQ 500 organisation and their partners/suppliers. So pretty much any medium to large enterprise (enterprise for short).

If you're a start-up and want access to the big revenue generating clients, the enterprise is were it's at. Which means making them feel safe and secure and using the easy terminology they understand.

Cyber.

Dude, I have long-running deep technological disputes that are older than you are.

I used to think that, but then I realised that within enterprise, "cyber-" comes with 20% extra salary for the same role. Downside is having to be able to translate for suits, upside is /you get to translate for the suits and do it right/ ;)

Language changes: https://twitter.com/dinodaizovi/status/405148448107659264.

I took a bit of time to read some of your more recent comments and I'm going to level with you-- I cringed pretty hard. Labeling people of 25 years as "old"? Yikes. I'm not sure if you mean to come off this way or not, but some friendly advice: your attitudes surely will limit the people who are willing to work with you to accomplish your goals. Might be worth some reflection.

The first thing that comes to mind is "Message to the Fed - NAS"

Why am I disappointed that I'm not on there?

the rewards are an insult, that's pocket change for the guys that are being pursued

The rewards are not an attempt to outbid organized crime.

Politicians, non-profits, charities, and the like all typically argue that in order to get the best talent for the job, they have to offer competitive enough rates to ensure they even get a look-in compared to big companies.

There is an argument (not saying it is the right one) that there are substantial risks associated with reporting criminals, and there can be substantial benefits to working with them instead. So surely any rate has to be high enough to ensure it is considered an option?

Of course, that then gives the question - what is that lower bound?

Outbidding organized crime is an insane idea.

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