USSR's old domain name attracts cybercriminals
May 31, 2013 /Uncategorized

USSR's old domain name attracts cybercriminals

Sergei Ovcharenko, the director for .su domain development at Moscow’s Foundation for Internet Development smiles as he speaks to The Associated Press photographer in his office in Moscow, Russia, on Thursday, May 30, 2013. The Foundation for Internet Development is responsible for managing the Soviet Union’s old .su domain, which security experts say has become a magnet for hackers. Ovcharenko acknowledges that criminal sites hosted in Soviet cyberspace can stay online for extremely long periods of time, something he blames on weak Russian legislation and outdated terms of service. He promises that stricter rules are on their way. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

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