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  Vladimir Levin
Vladimir Levin is a character in Tolstoy's novel Anna Karenina.
He is the prosperous landowner who felt that democracy was the answer to the great divide that existed between the aristocracy and the peasants in Tsarist Russia[?].
Vladimir Levin is also the handle of a criminal Russian hacker who broke into Citibank's network and stole about ten million dollars, the name most likely being chosen for its Robin Hood-like associations.
www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/vl/Vladimir_Levin.html   (70 words)

  
 Vladimir Levin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Vladimir Levin (born 1971) is a Russian mathematician famed for his involvement in the attempt to fraudulently transfer US$10.7 million via Citibank's computers.
Levin graduated in biochemistry from Saint Petersburg State Institute of Technology.
Levin's lawyers fought against extradition to the US, but their appeal was rejected by the House of Lords in June 1997.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Vladimir_Levin   (374 words)

  
 Detention Spotlights Basmanny Court
President Vladimir Putin addressing a Cabinet meeting Monday, where he told ministers it was up to the courts to decide guilt or innocence.
Levin represented General Vladimir Ganeyev at the Basmanny court earlier this year in a corruption investigation involving Ganeyev and six high-ranking police officials suspected of extorting millions of dollars from businessmen, which became known as the "Werewolves" case.
Levin said cases investigated by the investigative department of the Prosecutor General's Office supposedly end up at the court because they are in the same district, but in reality the prosecutors simply find it convenient to work with what he described as "loyal" judges.
www.russiansabroad.com /News/Russian_News_Print.asp?articleId=37232   (467 words)

  
 Vladimir Levin - Moviefone
Current status: Vladimir Levin fought extradition to the United States for two years, but eventually lost his case.
Vladimir Levin (born 1971) is a Russian mathematician famed for his involvement in the attempt to fraudulently transfer US$10.7 million via Citibank's...
Vladimir Levin, a biochemistry graduate of St. Petersburg's Tekhnologichesky University in mathematics, led a Russian hacker group in the first publicly...
movies.aol.com /celebrity/vladimir-levin/213630/main   (94 words)

  
 Cyber Crime, The World's Most Famous Hackers, Vladimir Levin, Johan Helsingius, Kevin Mitnick, Robert Morris, Dennis ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Although his first use of a computer is unknown Vladimir was allegedly using his office computer at AO Saturn, a computer firm in St. Petersburg, Russia, to break into Citibank computers.
Vladimir Levin was arrested at the Heathrow airport in 1995.
During his trial, Levin alleged that one of his defence lawyers was actually an FBI agent.
cybercrime.planetindia.net /famous_hackers.htm   (609 words)

  
 Vladimir Levin - Internet Hacker / Hacking
Vladimir Levin, a biochemistry graduate of St. Petersburg's Tekhnologichesky University in mathematics, led a Russian hacker group in the first publicly revealed international bank robbery over a network.
Levin used a laptop computer in London, England, to access the Citibank network, and then obtained a list of customer codes and passwords.
Four members of Levin's group pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit bank fraud, and served various sentences.
www.livinginternet.com /i/ia_hackers_levin.htm   (163 words)

  
 vladimir levin   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Vladimir Levin will go down in history as quite possibly one of the greatest criminal masterminds of all time.
Vladimir's lawyer will not allow him to speak to the press, but alleged documents indicate that he broke into Citibank by accessing their Cash Management system.
Vladimir Levin is a mastermind who orchestrated the entire attack.
www.supernaturalminds.com /VladimirLevin.html   (373 words)

  
 www.rian.ru
Kvachkov's lawyer Vladimir Levin told RIA Novosti that his client had pleaded not guilty.
Chubais' motorcade was fired upon in the morning of March 10, while leaving Zhavoronki town (that is, one kilometer from the Minsk-highway intersection).
Colonel and former General Staff officer Vladimir Kvachkov was arrested on charges of complicity in the attack.
en.rian.ru /onlinenews/20050405/39697381-print.html   (198 words)

  
 BYTE.com
In July 1994, Vladimir Levin, a mathematician in St. Petersburg, Russia, befriended a former St. Petersburg bus driver who had turned entrepreneur in San Francisco, according to recently unsealed court documents.
Levin, who was system administrator at AO Saturn, a St. Petersburg software house, has been advised by his attorney not to speak to the press.
In March, Levin was arrested in transit at London's Heathrow airport.
www.byte.com /art/9511/sec3/art11.htm   (806 words)

  
 Vladimir Levin, The Bank Hacker of Russia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
He confused a bank's computer known as Citibank to dish out $10 million, Levin got away but he was later caught.
He tried to defend his case for two years but he lost and had to pay back his share of the loot and spend three years in prison.
Vladimir did not really use any special tools, he actually hacked into Citibank from his workplace AO Saturn.
www.angelfire.com /co4/schoolstuff9999/AJQpage1.htm   (86 words)

  
 Internet robber sentenced - Feb. 24, 1998
On 18 occasions, prosecutors alleged, Levin transferred funds from these accounts maintained at Citibank in New York to accounts he and his co-conspirators controlled in Finland, the United States, the Netherlands, Germany and Israel.
Levin's co-conspirators later withdrew or attempted to withdraw the funds.
     Levin was arrested by British police at an airport outside London in March 1995.
money.cnn.com /1998/02/24/technology/robber/index.htm   (501 words)

  
 La Taberna   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Accused of using his office computer at AO Saturn, a St. Petersburg, Russia, computer firm, to break into Citibank.
Along with a computer, computer games and disks, Russian police confiscated a camcorder, music speakers and a TV set from Levin's apartment.
Levin claimed that one of the lawyers assigned to defend him was actually an FBI agent.
www.emik.cl /levin.html   (89 words)

  
 The best hackers on earth ? - Reaper-X .:[ ID ]:.
His best-appreciated hack was a takeover of all of the telephone lines for Los Angeles radio station KIIS-FM, guaranteeing that he would be the 102nd caller, and netting him a Porsche 944 S2.
The other hackers im proud of his abilities is Vladimir Levin.
And because of Vladimir Levin too, Citibank began using the Dynamic Encryption Card which is unique to Citibank.
www.reaper-x.com /2006/08/04/the-best-hackers-on-earth.htm   (612 words)

  
 Tracks Of Creation: Issue 1 Volume 2: Review of Bozzio Levin Stevens
Thanks to Magna Carta for the CD Bozzio Levin Stevens comes to us from a label called Magna Carta which specializes in progressive rock.
Black Light Syndrome is an experimental effort produced by Terry Bozzio on drums, Tony Levin on Bass and Steve Stevens on guitars.
On reading the story printed on the inside sleeve of the CD, I found out that this recording had been suggested by Terry's manager as a "name rock instrumental collaboration" to enable Terry to "make money over the winter".
disemia.com /creation/issue_2_1/reviews/bozziolevinstevens.html   (394 words)

  
 Vlad's Software Development Blog   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
C was one of the first languages I learned to program in.
In a language with compile-time exception checking, that has the added benefit of helping to make sure that you are not calling methods that throw ProcessingException inside of your validation methods.
It requires outside intervention in most cases, since few users know enough about databases and SQL to do it themselves, and it is quite error prone since as I mentioned earlier, it bypasses the application.
vladimirlevin.blogspot.com   (4587 words)

  
 DBLP: Vladimir Levin
Vladimir Levin, Robert Palmer, Shaz Qadeer, Sriram K. Rajamani: Sound Transaction-Based Reduction Without Cycle Detection.
Fei Xie, Vladimir Levin, James C. Browne: Model Checking for an Executable Subset of UML.
Vladimir Levin, Doron Peled: Verification of Message Sequence Charts via Template Matching.
www.informatik.uni-trier.de /~ley/db/indices/a-tree/l/Levin:Vladimir.html   (296 words)

  
 Vladimir Levin's Customer Reviews   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Vladimir Levin gave 4 stars to: Unit Testing in Java
It is not "complete" but the material is very well written, and you can go on the Web to find other people's study notes and mock exams to complement your review of the material.
Vladimir Levin gave 5 stars to: Unnatural Harvest
www.amazon.com /rss/people/A22T0NUHS8MY8S/reviews   (2513 words)

  
 Conference Papers
Fei Xie, Vladimir Levin, Robert P. Kurshan, and James C. Browne.
Fei Xie, Vladimir Levin, and James C. Browne.
Natasha Sharygina, James C. Browne, Fei Xie, Robert Kurshan, and Vladimir Levin.
web.cecs.pdx.edu /~xie/publications.htm   (369 words)

  
 DBLP: Vladimir Levin
Thomas Ball, Byron Cook, Vladimir Levin, Sriram K. Rajamani: SLAM and Static Driver Verifier: Technology Transfer of Formal Methods inside Microsoft.
Vladimir Levin: Static driver verifier, a formal verification tool for Windows device drivers.
Hüsnü Yenigün, Vladimir Levin, Doron Peled, Peter A. Beerel: Hazard-Freedom Checking in Speed-Independent Systems.
informatik.uni-trier.de /~ley/db/indices/a-tree/l/Levin:Vladimir.html   (296 words)

  
 ABM -- Books Related to Jewish Culture, History, etc.          
Chernaya Kniga S Kraenymi Stranitsami: Tragedy and Heroism of Bellorussian Jewry, by Levin, Vladimir, and David Meltser.
Vladimir Levin is a writer and a journalist, a 30-year TASS (Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union) veteran, and an author of about 15 books.
Collaboration in the Holocaust: Crimes of the Local Police in Belorussia and Ukraine, 1941-44, by Martin Dean [Research Fellow at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum].
www.belarus-misc.org /bel-jwbk.htm   (1467 words)

  
 e-Crime: the Vladimir Levin Episode from Proximal White Papers at silicon.com
e-Crime: the Vladimir Levin Episode from Proximal White Papers at silicon.com
The sentencing of Vladimir Levin on 24 February 1998 brought to a conclusion the most high profile case of cyber crime to date.
The saga - which almost resembles a Hollywood blockbuster - began in July 1994 when customers complained of $400,000 mysteriously "disappearing" from two Citibank accounts.
whitepapers.silicon.com /0,39024759,60104161p-39001181q,00.htm   (607 words)

  
 TLC :: Hackers: Hackers' Hall of Fame   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Unusual tools: Along with a computer, computer games and disks, Russian police confiscated a camcorder, music speakers and a TV set from Levin's apartment.
Little-known fact: Levin claimed that one of the lawyers assigned to defend him was actually an FBI agent.
He was sentenced to three years in prison and ordered to pay Citibank $240,015 (his share from the heist).
tlc.discovery.com /convergence/hackers/bio/bio_09.html   (214 words)

  
 vladimir levin - ResearchIndex document query   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
for an Executable Subset of UML Fei Xie 1 Vladimir Levin 2 James C. Browne 1 1 Department of
An implementation of SDL 92 communication semantics - Vladimir Levin
Vladimir Levin is a person to whom I owe much for his
citeseer.ist.psu.edu /cis?q=Vladimir+Levin   (275 words)

  
 Vladimir Levin - Free Artist Portfolio at absolutearts.com
Vladimir Levin - Free Artist Portfolio at absolutearts.com
Browse Levin's body of work: Ones perspective is the key to fomulating reality.
Last Updated: Wed 26 Apr 2006 06:52:23 PM EDT
www.absolutearts.com /portfolio/v/vblevin   (107 words)

  
 SLAM Project
Automatic Creation of Environment Models via Training [PDF], Thomas Ball, Vladimir Levin, and Fei Xie.
A short paper on specifying and checking properties of software [PS,PDF], presented at the CSTB's July 2001 Symposium on Fundamentals of Computer Science, July 2001.
Vladimir Levin presented Static Driver Verifier, a formal verification tool at MEMOCODE 2004 [ppt]
research.microsoft.com /slam   (1121 words)

  
 JIBC - Journal of Internet Banking and Commerce
The subsequent multinational investigation has shown that it was a
In the overall crime scheme, Levin was supported by as many as 30
Levin himself was arrested in September 1995 in a UK airport, en-
www.arraydev.com /commerce/JIBC/9601-07.htm   (614 words)

  
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There, Levin electronically transfers $11 million from Citibank’s New York-based mainframes to Finland, Israel, and California.
This all occurred under the watch of one of Citibank’s top information officers in charge of security, Colin Crook. This frightening occurrence is not a rare event; many businesses are finding that their computer system’s security is being bypassed and that their private files are being invaded.
www.essay.org /school/english/comsec.doc   (1643 words)

  
 V Novom Svete, “Debate Club,” Category #B4
 “Debate Club,” By Vladimir Levin, V Novom Svete.
According to the Third Division’s (the secret police) records, in 1840 only two of 50 governors neither took bribes nor stole: the Kiev governor, because he was already wealthy, and the governor of Koven because he was assured of later rewards.
Here’s a more recent example: a member of the commission on Human Rights was none other Vladimir Podatev, who as it later turned out had been charged with robbery, weapons theft, and torture.
www.indypressny.org /debate.htm   (1817 words)

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