How a Bookmaker and a Whiz Kid Took On an Extortionist — and Won

[AdamSelene]

Facing an online extortion threat, Mickey Richardson bet his Web-based business on a networking whiz from Sacramento who first beat back the bad guys, then helped the cops nab them. If you collect revenue online, you'd better read this.

Article: http://www.csoonline.com/read/050105/extortion.html

 

[wilheim]

Hats off to Mickey and CRIS.




wil.

 

[joel2002]

good article.read it couple days ago

 

[TheGeneral+]

Thanks adam

In a couple of long chats, they talked shop in detail, Hardcore always deferring to eXe and praising his skill. This seemed to put eXe at ease.

Soon enough, eXe pointed Hardcore to a webpage with attack scripts on it, and he gave Hardcore an ICQ chat client user ID that he hacked. (Perhaps as a gesture of friendship, he gave the account the password "hardcore.") The ICQ account allowed Turner to chat directly with eXe, but it also led to eXe's biggest mistake when eXe conducted a file transfer over this ICQ connection. Turner nabbed eXe's real IP address and traced it to a dedicated broadband line in Russia, a cable modem that he determined eXe paid for himself.

Turned out the smart guy wasn't so smart afterall.

 

[assassin]

kewl read


i learned a lot and was entertained at the same time

 

[sharky99]

real interesting read thanks