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Cyber Crime: “We are Legion”

A day in the life of an international hackerand why businesses of all sizes need to protect themselves against a growing and sophisticated underground industry.

By Dean Goodwin | Updated on August 28, 2013

By Dean Goodwin, marketing manager, RPS Technology & Cyber

In a small, one-bedroom flat in the working class city of Kharkiv, in the former Soviet Union, Dmytro Kozel was surfing the Internet for universities and colleges in the U.S. As a young student in the Ukraine, Kozel had more than a passing interest in advanced education but he wasn’t interested in enrolling in online classes; tonight, he wanted to break into the network of a large U.S. state university. 

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