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"sherry davidoff" Discussed on Malicious Life
"Hi welcome back to saba reasons militias life. I'm ran living a few weeks ago after we released the second part of the albert gonzalez's series by came across this interesting tweet from one of our listeners. In clearly allman wrote quote. Greatest hacker in the world soup. Nazi was a lot of things calling him. That is ignorant. He wasn't even the brightest hacker in his own circle of friends in reply sherry davidoff. Our guest in the series wrote quote agreed that he wasn't super technical but as prosecutors said he was quote unparalleled in that he didn't just get heck done. He got a heck done. He got the exfiltration of the data done he got the laundering of the funds done. He was a five tool player and later replied with rebuttal of his own. But the reason why i mentioned the short conversation has nothing to do with. How good of a hacker gonzalez was. I mean there's no hecker rating system that we can use to figure out who was the best hacker ever peck in basketball. We have real bonafide statistics shots. Mrs whatever and my daughter and her friends still can't agree on who was the best. Nba player ever michael jordan or lebron james but almost tweet got me thinking about the relationship between a hacker and the technological environment. He or she operates. Take for example. Kevin mitnick who did most of his hacking in the early ninety s the technological landscape back then was very different from our current one. The internet for example was still pretty young if we could magically transport young mitnick to our current time would he still be as successful as he was back. Then by the way kevin. If you're listening to this. I'd love to hear your thoughts about this question..
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"sherry davidoff" Discussed on Malicious Life
"Here while he was standing trial. A judge ordered that albert receive a psychological evaluation report that followed the psychologist wrote quote. He identified with his computer. It is hard if not impossible. Even at the present for mr gonzalez to conceptualize human growth development and evolution other than in the language of building. A machine and albert's entire world was filtered through his computer. He was capable of doing really bad things because the consequences were out in the real world for real people betrayal of friends and family. The threat of identity fraud for middle class family did not occur in machine language. It was much different. For albert's right-hand men. patrick. Patrick wasn't obsessive like albert and john james for him there were arguably even better reasons to do bad things do. We spent most of his childhood in limbo raised by a single mother but mostly unsupervised. He began experimenting with computers and drugs as early as age eleven. He wasn't a genius businessman. Albert or prolific. Coder like jonathan. James computers were just a way of escaping and otherwise pretty unenviable situation at home. His mother remarried and had two kids but h fifteen. Patrick dropped out of high school and his mother divorced leaving him and his half siblings. In poverty family bounced from place to place eviction to eviction the ended up staying with family friends where according to wired quote his mother spent much of her time partying drinking and smoking pot and quote. It's not surprising. Then that patrick ended up with hashtag feed the goats the script kiddie irc channel. Were guys like albert john chris. Scott and steven. What would hang out and coordinate attacks against websites. But it was different with patrick. He liked the other guys in the fun of hacking shore but he ended up there for fundamentally different reasons. He wasn't like albert with the self-made enterpreneurial father or john. Who grew up money by age eighteen but rick's family was living at a residential hotel. But the didn't have enough rent money. They were facing yet another addiction so one day in two thousand and three. He told his mom what he was going to do. She gave him her blessing. So he took the bus into new york city and again cashing out cards for the cyber criminal albert gonzalez. The money he earned. Albert's mule was enough to pay for the rent and more soon the family was able to afford their own apartment. Albert seved patrick. On top of that was also the father figure. Patrick never had a bit older wiser taking him under his wing. They began spending all kinds of time together as albert escalated to more and more serious crimes. He brought patrick along the right. He rented a condo. And let petric live there free of charge more so than anyone else in the crew. Patrick really loved albert. It makes you think if you were in his position if you were facing yet another eviction from your home if you looked into your family's eyes and saw that there were struggling. What would it take for you to do really bad things curry clay katie draymond zaza corinne magic james worthy. Ac green byron scott. If you watch basketball you knew that we've an elite starting five you can do just about anything. Nobody could stop the nineties. Both or the sixties celtics by two thousand and six albert gonzalez had pulled off the greatest financial data breach in history to that point. But he didn't do it on his own. He had jonathan. James chris scott but we do and steven what behind the nineteen ninety. Seven chicago bulls of sabah. Crime also had a bench full of rule players at this time. Albert gonzales has built essentially an international syndicate sherry davidoff. Ceo of ellen g security numbers from these retailer networks and those are uploaded to servers that he hosts in lafayette and the ukraine and then he gives those card numbers to his business partners in order to convert those to actual money. The partners receive the car. Data copy them onto blanks and sell them at shady nightclubs around europe for three hundred dollars. A pop half the prophets go back to albert even with only half the prophets. It starts to add up. It gets to be so much in fact that even just getting the money to albert becomes logistical nightmare. This is before. Bitcoin member jonathan james for example. Set up a mail drop for him and that way his partners around the world could nail him cash to that male drives that other people could pick up. We're talking about boxes full of straight up cash. Exactly how much money. Albert me during this period is unknown. But if you want a sense of it consider this on one occasion. Albert's money counting machine actually broke from overuse. He complained to stephen to count three hundred. Forty thousand dollars by hand at this time. He also bought a bmw. He threw himself a birthday party for seventy five thousand dollars. People's stepped up with drugs booze curls. He's staying luxury hotels on one occasion. Five thousand dollar penthouse suite in a beachside resort south beach florida. According to nbc's american dream on top of their normal drugs albert and his friends made special concoctions. Called magic milkshakes cookies and cream. Ice cream smoke shrooms. Lsd and ecstasy all thrown in a blender. There were too many drugs and not enough mouths and noses to inhale them. There was nobody around. Stop them and too much money to spend even if they tried. They were living the dream. Cleanest their version of it. But you've seen crime movies before what always happens right after the bad guys think they've won when they pull off the job they're rich and they think they've finally done. The movie never ends there. What's the next scene on one afternoon. In the spring of two thousand eight albert and petrich to were driving back from an ordinary recon mission scouting the point of sale machines at toys r. Us from the new york times quote a sports car with.
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"sherry davidoff" Discussed on Malicious Life
"Early. Two thousand and four and one of the two or three greatest cybercriminals to ever walked the planet. Albert gonzalez is on the payroll of the united states. Secret service and not just working for them thriving with them for months sometimes. All day and night he works alongside bonafide agents out of a satellite office in army repair garage in jersey city and those agents actually like him one prosecutor later told the new york times quote. It was kind of a bonding experience. He and the agents developed over time a very close bond the worked well together and quote they even gave him a nickname soup playoff his online persona soup. Nazi and albert is teaching them all kinds of new things. It's like when he was fourteen and the fbi b. i. Visited to figure out how kid who only just reach puberty managed to hack into ness. Remember what happened an agent to albert into a room the set there for an entire afternoon and by the time they came out. It was the agent not the child who has left these. This kid is amazing. Albert's lawyer recalled the man saying he's running circles around me now at twenty. Three albert is winning circles around the secret service. The prosecutor how quote spending this much time. We've an informant this deeply into cybercrime conspiracy. It was a totally new experience for all of us. And by springtime the service trusted albert enough to make him the fulcrum for the biggest ever cyber operation. It's ironic actually that there were about to use one of history's greatest cybercriminals to attempt the most ambitious sting in the history of cybercrime today. Albert is an administrator on the on the shadow crusade and he actually begins to climb even further within their ranks as he at the same time that he's working with the secret service that's sherry davidoff. Ceo of ellen be security and author of the book data breaches. You might have assumed that once he went clean. Albert left the cyber underground for good but the service had him do the exact opposite stay active become more embedded in the community. It was all part of the plan. The other thing to understand about this time. Is that the dark web doesn't exist. And that means that as all these hackers are visiting shattered crew and buying and selling credit card numbers. This is all on the normal internet. The web domain for show crew is www dot schiro crewe dot com as simple to type into your browser as google dot com. That means all this. Cyber crime is hiding in plain sight shadow. Crew users are in real need of more reliable ways to cover up what they're doing one way you can hide yourself on the open. Web is via virtual private network or vpn if he began is basically a remote computer that functions as a proxy for all your data transfers as an analogy say. I wanted to send a letter to been all our sound designer to tell him. I really love music. He adds two episodes. But i don't want him to know that i wrote a letter since he might ask for a raise. So i write deal been all. I really love your music and i played the note in an envelope but i don't send a letter to been all i send it to nate our producer. Instead mate then takes the letter removes the original envelope that had my name and address on it and replaces it with new envelope with his name and address is then sends it over to. Oh who gets the note. Wow gee thanks and sends. The note came from nate. And not me. He has no idea that. I'm the true originator of the letter. I recognize rans handwriting everywhere. He probably doesn't want me to ask for a raise. Such a cheapskate. Jeez vpn's work in a similar fashion. You establish a secure encrypted connection to a remote server and tunnel all your browsing activity through that remote server so that your true identity is hidden there are ways to supersede. Vpn connections to figure out. Who's behind seddon internet activity but it is difficult so you can imagine how useful vpn would be for members of shadow crew. The secret service knew it so albert says to everybody. Hey i've set up a vpn service soup. Nazi starts promoting his own vpn. You i this quietly behind the scenes and he gets the shadow leadership onboard and then after a few months he starts offering it to the whole shadow crew community. Albert is a well respected member of the community. He's got crin eventually. The whole shadow crusade. It was moved onto servers. That the secret service could monitor. It's not like the members didn't realize the risk there were certainly times that members said hade jokingly there are certainly times that numbers jokingly said things like hey the secret service had a back door they could listen to everything.