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Even though the Romanian faction of Anonymous started their campaigns not long ago, since the beginning of 2012 they have left their mark on many government institutions they consider to be corrupt, their latest target being the website of the Ministry of European Affairs (dae.gov.ro).
The hacktivists managed to gai... |
6 February 2012
08:47 GMT |
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As promised, we return with more information on the story of the famous grey hat hacker TinKode, who is apparently a 20-year old student that didn’t spend too much time in class and even failed IT Fundamentals, the only exam he attended. According to a statement of the Romanian Directorate for Investigating O... |
1 February 2012
11:04 GMT |
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TinKode, the famous grey hat, was arrested today in Romania by the Directorate for Investigating Organized Crime and Terrorism (DIICOT), being accused of hacking into some major US websites.
His real name is Manole Răzvan Cernăianu, but for most people in the world he’s known as TinKode, the hacker that manage... |
31 January 2012
11:23 GMT |
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Prior to the meeting that takes place today in Brussels with NATO’s Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Romania’s President Traian Basescu revealed in a press conference that the Balkan country could have a great contribution to the cyber defense of member states. “Romania could be an importan... |
30 January 2012
02:25 GMT |
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Researchers from Microsoft’s Malware Protection Center came across a social welfare website that was hacked and modified to serve visitors a piece of malware each time they think they download a useful document. The site in question is from Romania and it shows up among the first results in search engines when... |
27 January 2012
09:40 GMT |
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After having revealed their support for the protests currently taking place in Romania, hackers part of Anonymous Romania launch an operation against the local government and other organizations they consider to be corrupt. Last week they defaced the website of the Social Services and Child Protection Agency (DGASPC... |
26 January 2012
05:46 GMT |
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Anonymous hackers, as part of operation AntiSec, breached and defaced the website of Romanian Social Services and Child protection Agency (DGASPCGR), located in Giurgiu county, calling it a corrupt organization and threatening to shut it down completely in the next days.
“Dear Romanian Government. Once again y... |
23 January 2012
03:39 GMT |
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A couple of days ago we’ve seen how the protests in Romania are used by cybercriminals to spread their malicious campaigns. At the time, we wrote that unlike in other countries, these Occupy-like movements are not backed up by Anonymous hackers, but this has now changed. The hacktivist collective released a vi... |
19 January 2012
04:24 GMT |
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On January 18, 2012, fans of the Romanian singer Inna who visited her site were automatically redirected to a protest message left by a Turkish hacker group called DarkDevilz Crew. The Hacker News informs that the Video page’s source code had been altered so that anyone who accessed it would be redirected to a... |
19 January 2012
03:09 GMT |
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Romania is beginning to look a lot like other countries where Occupy protests are taking place and even though this is not an official Occupy movement and no Anonymous hackers are involved, cybercriminals take advantage of the citizen’s discontent with their president to launch a malware-spreading campaign.
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17 January 2012
04:13 GMT |
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Yahoo Messenger 11.5 was introduced a couple of weeks ago. The instant messaging client added quite a few features and changes, some of which have been requested for a lot of time. The latest update also brought support for a new language, Yahoo Messenger became available in Romanian for the first time.Yahoo is now m... |
19 December 2011
08:03 GMT |
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The Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) in collaboration with the Romanian Intelligence Service (SRI) apprehended a 54 year old Ukrainian retired general and two of his accomplices while they were trying to withdraw $1 million (700,000 EUR) from CEC Bank, money obtained as a result of cyberfraud operations. Valer... |
16 December 2011
11:14 GMT |
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For the past two days now - precisely the time it took Apple to roll out iTunes Match internationally - the Romanian iTunes Store has been acting up.iTunes shows the following error whenever you try to access the Romanian store:“Your request could not be completed. The item you’ve requested is not current... |
16 December 2011
09:08 GMT |
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After the Romanian CEC Bank revealed the fact that they were in the process of blocking and reissuing the credit cards of 17,000 of their customers, along with PINs, Visa Europe and the Romanian Association of Banks (RAB) also confirmed the data breach that may have affected cardholders in eastern Europe. Visa Europ... |
16 December 2011
02:52 GMT |
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The “Gheorghe Asachi” Technical University in Iasi, Romania, will host the first regional edition of the hacking and INFOSEC conference called DefCamp on December 17, where underground, academic and enterprise security specialists will share their insight on some of the hot topics that currently affect bo... |
15 December 2011
02:48 GMT |
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Four Romanians, known in cybercriminal underground as dobitoc212, xjuniior, iulyvip and r_florinus were indicted by US authorities for hacking into computing devices belonging to more than 200 businesses, especially targeting point-of-sale and checkout systems to steal credit card information.
According to the offi... |
9 December 2011
05:17 GMT |
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Doodles are a regular occurrence at Google these days and the company has been running localized doodles for quite some time too. The most obvious examples are the various doodles Google showcases for the national days of the countries it's available in.
Sometimes, Google just paints its logo in the country... |
1 December 2011
09:24 GMT |
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The environmentally-friendly campaign launched by WWF on October 24 is returning the first results. After raising over 65,000 signatures, the initiative will ensure the preservation of approximately 250,000 hectares of virgin forests in Romania, which represent a unique ecosystem. At this point in time, the Ministe... |
16 November 2011
02:38 GMT |
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As one of the first multinational companies to have invested in Romania, Coca-Cola continues to support and promote the development of an educated society and of a healthy environment.The latest project coming from Coca-Cola Hellenic Romania is a major environmental protection initiative that has just been awarded a ... |
7 October 2011
03:41 GMT |
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Bad news for Romanian Nokia employees working at the manufacturing facility in Cluj, as the Finnish company has just announced its plans to shut down the factory. According to Nokia, the planned closure will have a direct impact on approximately 2,200 employees. After reducing its R&D operations in Smart Devices and ... |
29 September 2011
03:57 GMT |
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Ubisoft has kicked off a very special competition in Romania, in the form of the Ubi Challenge, where the French company wants to find and recruit the best ASP.net developers in the country, to work in its Webstudio team, which currently coordinates all of the company's online gaming and non-gaming efforts.Ubiso... |
23 September 2011
14:21 GMT |
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A major law enforcement operation in Romania led to the arrest of 90 individuals this morning who are suspected of being members of three distinct cyber fraud rings.Prosecutors from the Romanian Directorate for the Investigation of Organized Crime and Terrorism (DIICOT) assisted by national police executed 117 raids ... |
14 July 2011
05:48 GMT |
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Romanian authorities have arrested nine individuals believed to be part of a phishing gang that used hacked accounts to make bids on fake online auctions. Prosecutors from the Romanian Directorate for Investigating Organized Crime and Terrorism (DIICOT) raided 26 residences in Bucharest and three different counties.... |
23 June 2011
13:16 GMT |
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Thirty people were indicted in Romania last week in connection with an international VoIP fraud scheme that involved routing calls to premium numbers through hacked PBX systems.The criminal operation lasted from October 2009 to December 2010 and, according to prosecutors from the Romanian Directorate for Investigatin... |
18 June 2011
02:22 GMT |
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South Korean mobile phone maker Samsung Electronics has announced that its new flagship Android-based device, the Samsung Galaxy S II, will arrive on the market in Romania during the second half of the next month. The mobile will be launched worldwide in late April, but it would arrive only in some countries at that... |
8 April 2011
09:49 GMT |
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Romanian Apple reseller iStyle has partnered with Apcom, the company’s official distributor in the territory, to lend a MacBook Air to the winner of a blogging contest (that’s right, ‘lend’) for one year.Had we not been born around these parts, we’d have probably slapped our foreheads so... |
31 March 2011
04:11 GMT |
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Two of the latest smartphones that Samsung unveiled to the world with Google's Android operating system on board, namely the Samsung Galaxy S II and Galaxy Pro, are expected to become available for purchase on the Romanian market as soon as April.The company made an official announcement on the matter via its F... |
9 March 2011
21:41 GMT |
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Romanian authorities have arrested three members of a fraud ring that specialized in credit card counterfeiting and illegal cash withdrawals.According to Europol, the gang installed ATM skimmers across the European Union and had members active in Poland, Sweden, the United Kingdom and Romania.Law enforcement agencies... |
17 February 2011
06:29 GMT |
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On January 20, 2011, officials from the Romanian government and representatives of the European Space Agency (ESA) witnessed the signing of the Accession Agreement to the ESA Convention. The East European nation is now posed to become the 19th Member State in the organization.Even though the European Union (EU) conta... |
21 January 2011
03:33 GMT |
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Romanian authorities have dismantled a fraud network of 50 individuals who hacked into VoIP servers belonging to companies from around the world and made fraudulent phone calls to premium rate numbers. According to prosecutors from the Romanian Directorate for Investigating Organized Crime and Terrorism (DIICOT), th... |
17 December 2010
12:58 GMT |
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Google Street View is one of the company's most controversial products, sometimes rightfully so. But not all Street View roll-outs are met with the kind of drama that the Germany launch got. Google has just unveiled the service in Romania where several of the biggest cities are now already available with more on... |
8 December 2010
13:13 GMT |
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Security researchers have detected a tax return phishing scam directed at Romanian users, which seems to be in line with a recent trend of localizing such attacks.The fake emails purport to originate from the Romanian Ministry of Public Finance (Ministerul Finantelor Publice) and are similar in content to the ones co... |
25 November 2010
13:56 GMT |
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A well placed source has confirmed for Softpedia that Apple is on track to launch iPhone 4 in several new territories tomorrow, including Romania, via Orange, and The Philippines, through Globe Telecom. Pricing and contract details are unknown, as of yet.Various reports have emerged this week saying that Apple was on... |
23 September 2010
04:44 GMT |
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A team of investigators announces the discovery of a new species of dinosaurs that they say is closely related to the renowned predator Velociraptor. The animal appears to have roamed the European continent during the Late Cretaceous period. This epoch ended with the K-T extinction event (the K-T boundary), which too... |
31 August 2010
05:11 GMT |
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The Romanian organized crime police has dismantled a major cybercriminal ring that specialized in manufacturing and selling ATM skimmers. Law enforcement officials descended at more than 40 locations in several cities and detained 20 suspects. Prosecutors from the Romanian Directorate for Investigating Organized Cri... |
27 May 2010
10:05 GMT |
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Wireless carrier Cosmote recently announced the launch of commercial 3G network in Romania. According to the company, 11 cities in the country can enjoy its new services, including Bucharest, Iasi, Cluj-Napoca, Timisoara, Constanta, Galati, Craiova, Brasov, Moinesti, Oltenita and Orastie. At the same time, the netwo... |
22 April 2010
05:52 GMT |
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Two websites hosted on the telegraph.co.uk domain were defaced to display Romanian patriotic messages and the country's flag, yesterday. The hacktivists who claimed responsibility for the attack expressed anger at the British media for portraying the Romanian people in an unfavorable light.
The attack targete... |
15 April 2010
09:31 GMT |
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April 6, 2010 was a bad day for Romania's cybercrooks. In a joint US-Romanian investigation, Romania's Directorate for Investigating Organized Crime and Terrorism (DIICOT) sent out over 700 policemen in a nation-wide crack down on eBay fraudsters.Carrying out 101 search and arrest warrants, investigators br... |
8 April 2010
10:31 GMT |
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Romania's telecoms regulator ANCOM (National Communications Authority) announced recently that it had completed technical and administrative measures for a legal instrument that would offer wireless carriers in the country the possibility to use 3G services in the traditional GSM bands. Following the announceme... |
24 February 2010
10:06 GMT |
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Bing Maps’ evolution is without a doubt a multifaceted growth, with Microsoft making sure that the mapping, search and location platform moves forward in a variety of aspects. The past week, Bing Maps evolved with both new features and capabilities as well as with the addition of new content. At the end of the ... |
15 February 2010
06:16 GMT |
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Google has been making some strong moves in the enterprise sector and its Google Apps offering is picking steam and market share in most places. The service is available either directly from Google or through its resellers program. Atlas Networking has announced it is now an authorized Google Apps reseller in Romani... |
27 January 2010
09:47 GMT |
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A long time before Athens and Rome became two of the most renowned cities in the world, there existed a civilization on the Danube River, in Eastern Europe, that exceeded all its contemporaries in terms of arts, sciences, and their ability to work copper, the newest materials of the time. This civilization existed ev... |
27 January 2010
03:48 GMT |
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Cornel Ionut Tonita, 28, of Galati, Romania, pleaded guilty to charges in connection with a phishing scheme that targeted the customers of numerous financial institutions, the U.S. Department of Justice announces. The phisher is scheduled for sentencing on April 5 and faces a maximum sentence of five years in prison.... |
15 January 2010
11:12 GMT |
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Worldwide leading mobile phone maker Nokia has announced today that its Jucu Factory in Romania has been chosen as one of the leading green buildings in the world by the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC). The Gold Rating for Leadership in Energy and Environment Design (LEED) has been received for the first time by ... |
27 October 2009
10:29 GMT |
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Three former Soviet-Bloc countries in Eastern Europe have recently been selected to host one of the most ambitious physics experiments devised by the European Union. The Extreme Light Infrastructure (ELI) aims to build the most powerful exawatt-class laser in the world near the Romanian capital, Bucharest, which will... |
13 October 2009
02:59 GMT |
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The Romanian Constitutional Court has ruled that Romania's national implementation of European Union's Data Retention Directive is unconstitutional. The law was found to violate article 28 from the country's Constitution, pertaining to the secrecy of communication.According to the European Union Direct... |
9 October 2009
09:14 GMT |
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The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided: this year's Nobel Prize for Literature goes to Herta Muller, a prolific novelist, poet and essayist that is mostly renowned for her depictions of the harsh conditions present in Romania during the rule of the Communist leader Nicolae Ceausescu. She was born in t... |
8 October 2009
08:59 GMT |
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The Romanian authorities are undergoing a massive effort to dismantle cybercriminal groups operating in the country. During the last ten days, two series of arrests and raids related to credit-card fraud were performed in major Romanian cities. On September 9, the Romanian Direction for Investigating Organized Crime... |
18 September 2009
08:49 GMT |
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It seems that the latest iteration of Apple's iPhone, namely iPhone 3GS, will soon become available for purchase in even more markets than before, including Romania, where we learn that the device is to be listed for purchase as soon as Friday, July 3. The new phone will be sold on the local market via wireless ... |
2 July 2009
08:44 GMT |
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With more than 17 teams already signed up in the competition, the Google Lunar X Prize promises to be one of the most interesting show-offs in history. All participants need to construct a delivery system that will get their rover to the Moon, where the robot has to drive for about 500 meters, take high-resolution pi... |
28 May 2009
05:07 GMT |
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