[MEDIAITE] Anyone who's ever used the internet knows what 4Chan is -- namely, a message board/community where the dregs of the internet birth memes, plot stunts, and share hundreds of celebrity naked photos obtained by hacking into their private iCloud accounts and scraping the previously-deleted photos from backup storage.
We can forgive people over the age of 35 for not knowing what 4Chan is -- but we cannot forgive Brett Larson, CNN's technology analyst, for thinking that 4Chan is the hacker name of an actual human being.
I'm sure we're going to get some more confirmation as the hours and minutes go on, but he may have been a system administrator who knew his way around and how to hack things," Larson postulated yesterday on Brooke Baldwin's show. "This seems like it was not a real, big effort, but more of a 'I have these usernames, I know this security loophole -- I'm just gonna run this password app and see if I can get into these people's cloud-based accounts.'"
Most reports indicate that the perpetrators (as in multiple) were actually part of a 4Chan offshoot-turned-hacking ring that frequently broke into celebrity iCloud accounts using brute force methods, and traded their photos with their fellow hackers.
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So, when CNN went through this last round of layoffs, they clearly missed one. (At least one.)
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"Anyone who's ever used the internet knows what 4Chan is"
I've used the internet, and I have no idea for "4Chan" is.
Nor do I want to.
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I'm old as dirt, and I know bout 4chan, /v/, /b/tards, etc. if you have a thick skin quick mind and ability to adapt temporarily to some vile stuff, 4chan is an intel source as well as a porthole into the abyss.
[CHICAGO.CBSLOCAL] A 34-year-old woman died Thursday afternoon after falling masonry hit her on the head outside a church in the South Loop neighborhood.
No, the gargoyle was not one of ours...
Part of a gargoyle statue struck the woman in the head after falling from the Second Presbyterian Church of reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown ... home of Al Capone, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel,... at 19th and Michigan, just after noon.
Killed was Sarah Bean of Chicago, a mother of two, who was just a few blocks away from home when the incident occurred.
Her fiance, Lance Johnson, tells CBS 2 the two were walking when a gust of wind could be felt.
"I felt like something happened. I looked back and she was on the ground," he said.
A spokeswoman for the city's Building Department says a chain reaction was to blame for the falling stone. A corner of one of the metal decorative pieces on the exterior of the building gave way, striking a gargoyle statue on the southeast corner of the steeple and causing a portion of it to fall. The church is more than 100 years old.
"There have been no violations or critical issues," church pastor David Neff tells CBS 2's Mike Parker. "We're just saying prayers for the woman."
The church failed inspections between 2007 and 2011, but an inspection in October 2013 found no violations.
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After falling down on the woman did John Kerry apologize?
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FYI: A few years ago a sharp long icicle fell from the roof of the Marshall Fields Dept. store and landed/went thru the head of a pedestrian standing underneath on the sidewalk. She did not survive. Apologize for slightly OT.
You people may think that it's cute
To send rain and melt up my chute,
But winters are brutal,
And I've had a snootful --
Give my southbound booty a salute!
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Belying its outward monstrosity,
The gargoyle felt no animosity.
Its final velocity
And fatal ferocity?
The fall of Chi-town grandiosity.
And one for the Anti-Bothering League, since I couldn't cram "religiosity" into the last.
Who knows when wind, earthly gravity,
And ancient religious depravity
Will, combined, a gargoyle,
Some extinct sculptor's toil,
Cause to impact your cranial cavity?
#13
When it tickles the ol' mental nerve,
I bite into a topic with verve.
Then it's bugger the clerks!
Why conserve? Shoot the works,
Cuz I hate keeping rhymes in reserve.
[Ynet] Nigerian health worker hospitalized in isolation with high fever, feeding fears of Israel's first Ebola patient; doctors follow new Heath Ministry protocols.
Doctors at the Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem hospitalized a Nigerian woman in isolation Friday afternoon, in fear that she may represent the first case of Ebola to reach Israel.
The patient works in Nigeria's health services in Nigeria, located in western Africa where an Ebola outbreak has killed nearly 2,000 people, and admitted herself to the hospital with a high fever. It was decided to isolate the woman and fear of her suffering from Ebola arose from the consideration that she has constant contact with sick patients in Nigeria, where several cases of the deadly disease have been confirmed.
"It is possible that she is suffering from another viral complaint, but we are taking every precaution while we determine whether this could be Ebola," the spokeswoman said, adding that test results were expected by Saturday.
The woman arrived in Israel as a tourist on Wednesday.
Since the break-out of Ebola in western Africa, the Health Ministry has taken several steps in preparation for the possibility of the disease arriving in the Middle East and Israel. Doctors are required to immediately report any suspicion that a patient may be suffering from Ebola. The symptoms of anyone arriving from the affected African countries are also being passed onto health officials.
One of the antigunners' prime arguments is that additional firearms restrictions are common sense, and the intention is most definitely NOT to take away your guns. I have known this to be a lie for some time, and in states such as New York, whose legislatures were stampeded into passing even more restrictions, it appears it is going to be SOP.
Gun confiscation using records of firearms exchanges is ALWAYS next.
If you buy from a gun shop, if you take your firearms to a gunsmith shop, and if you provide any form of identification for even a private firearms buy, your gun is registered with the government in some form. I have heard from several sources that gunsmith shops whose proprietors also sell guns are required to permit law enforcement to copy their logs. Your gun is being registered if it is only in for service.
I have also said this here and elsewhere. If you want a gun, buy privately, use cash only, do not provide identification and stay clear of Federal Firearms License agencies, which is what they are: agents for the federal government.
By the way: by law, law enforcement are not supposed to do this.
What will happen in New York is anyone's guess. Mike Vanderboegh has suggested that if the left makes electoral gains locally in such states as New York and Connecticut, actual armed raids will become the order of the day as law enforcement thugs seek to steal private property. And if you resist, or if they f*ck up, you'll be dead. It seems to be the endgame for those jamokes.
Remember: in the minds of your political masters, "law abiding citizens" are nothing more than targets and serfs.
Prices for pistol ammunition were mixed while prices for rifle ammunition were unchanged. Prices for used rifles were mixed while prices for used pistols were mostly lower.
Pistol Ammo
.45 Caliber, 230 grain, From Last Week: +.01 Each After Unchanged (3 Weeks)
Cheapest, 50 rounds (2 Box Limit): Cheaper Than Dirt, Tulammo, steel cased, .29 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 250 rounds: The American Marksman, Stryker 45, reloaded, .29 per round (From Last Week: -.01 Each)
.40 Caliber Smith & Wesson, 180 grain, From Last Week: Unchanged
Cheapest, 50 rounds: I.Q. Metals, HSM, FMJ, Factory Seconds, .24 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: I.Q. Metals, Store Brand, reloaded, .23 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged)
9mm Parabellum, 115 grain From Last Week: Unchanged (2 Weeks)
Cheapest, 50 rounds (2 Box Limit) : O.D. Green Supply, Fiocchi, Brass Cased, FMJ, .19 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 1,000 rounds: I.Q. Metals, HSM, Reloaded, FMJ, .19 per round (From Last Week: +.01 Each)
.357 Magnum, 158 grain, From Last Week: -.01 Each
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Goose Island Sales, GECO, FMJ, .38 per round
Cheapest Bulk: 250: LAX Ammunition, Store Brand, Reloaded, .34 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (7 Weeks))
Rifle Ammunition
.223 Caliber/5.56mm 55 grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (5 Weeks)
Cheapest, 20 rounds: Cheaper Than Dirt, Tulammo, steel cased, .22 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: SG Ammo, Wolf WPA, steel cased, .23 per round (From Last Week: -.01 Each)
.308 NATO 145 grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (2 Weeks)
Cheapest, 20 rounds: Selway Armory, Brown Bear, steel cased, .45 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: SG Ammo, Silver Bear, steel cased, .45 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (12 Weeks)(!))
7.62x39 AK 123 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (5 Weeks)
Cheapest, 20 rounds: Ammunition Depot, Wolf, steel case, .22 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: Cheaper Than Dirt, Brown Bear, steel case, .23 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (5 Weeks))
.22 LR 40 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (2 Weeks)
Cheapest, 50 rounds (2 box limit): O.D. Green Supply, CCI Blazer, Brass, .07 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: Munire USA, Armacor Precision, .10 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (5 weeks))
Guns for Private Sale
Rifles
.223/5.56mm (AR Pattern Semiautomatic) Average Price: $545 Last Week Avg: $570 (-)
California (230, 229): Smith & Wesson M&P15: $400 (Same Gun) (!!)
Texas (322, 304): Anderson Arms: $400 (!)
Pennsylvania (165, 168): DPMS: $650
Virgina (219, 204): Anderson Arms: $610
Florida (401, 402): Bushmaster Carbon 15: $550
7.62x54mm (Dragunov Pattern Semiautomatic) Average Price: $1,075 Last Week Avg: $1,000 (+)
California (0): None Available
Texas (3, 0): Romak PSL: $900
Pennsylvania (1, 0): Romak PSL: $1,650
Virginia (4, 3): Romak PSL: $950 (!) (Same Gun)
Florida (0, 5): None Available
Pistols
.45 caliber ACP (M1911 Pattern Semiautomatic Pistol) Average Price: $405 Last Week Avg: $427 (-)
California (182, 186): Rock Island Armory: $380
Texas (228, 215): Zig-M: $375
Pennsylvania (143, 163): Rock Island Armory: $400
Virginia (180, 173): Para USA: $500
Florida (372, 402): Metro Arms: $425
9mm (Beretta 92FS or other Semiautomatic) Average Price: $370 Last Week Avg: $370 ()
California (164, 165): Beretta 92: $350
Texas (296, 294): Ruger P95: $350
Pennsylvania (209, 226): Glock 19: $350 (Same Gun)
Virginia (257, 273): Ruger LC9: $325
Florida (460, 490): Glock 26: $425
.40 caliber S&W (Glock and other semiautomatic) Average Price: $339 Last Week Avg: $416 (-)
California (100, 109): Glock 27: $380
Texas (153, 166): Smith & Wesson SW40VE: $370 (!)
Pennsylvania (131, 132): Glock 22: $350 (!)
Virginia (153, 138): Smith & Wesson M&P Shield: $350 (Same Gun)
Florida (237, 248): Glock 22: $399
[CNN] The rare moments Christos Sourovelis can take a break from running his own painting business, he can be found toiling away on his family's dream house in the suburbs of Philadelphia.
"I'm a working guy. I work every day, six days a week, even seven if I have to," Sourovelis says. One day this past March, without warning, the government took his house away, even though he and his wife, Markella, have never been charged with a crime or accused of any wrongdoing.
"I was so upset thinking somebody's going to take my house for nothing. That makes me crazy," Sourovelis says, shaking his head.
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[ARABNEWS] The Presidency of the Two Holy Mosques has strongly denied No, no! Certainly not! reports that surfaced in Western media outlets claiming that the tomb of the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) in Madinah may be removed.
"This is the personal opinion of a researcher, who had expressed his views in a study, and it does not reflect the views of the presidency or the Kingdom," said Ahmed Al-Mansouri, the presidency's media front man, on Thursday.
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- reported in western media outlets - ok i will bite - this did NOT make front page news on the Scimitar/Picayune ... oh wait
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[LAHT] The Argentine government raised the minimum wage by 31 percent to 4,400 pesos ($523) a month, according to a decision published Tuesday in the official gazette.
The pay hike was agreed upon at the annual Wage Council, which on Monday convened representatives of the government, unions and businesses at the Labor Ministry.
The decision, signed by Labor Minister Carlos Tomada, establishes a new wage increase beginning in January, when the monthly minimum wage will rise to 4,716 pesos, equivalent to $561 at the current exchange rate.
In negotiations pursued by different unions this year, average wage increases of 29.7 percent were achieved, according to official figures.
Last year the minimum wage increase amounted to 25 percent.
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[LEGALINSURRECTION] On Thursday, fast food and home healthcare workers across the country walked away from their jobs and joined the "Fight for $15," an SEIU-backed movement demanding a $15 minimum wage and unabridged union rights for fast food workers.
In the past, organizers and participants have largely avoided trouble with law enforcement. This time, however, protesters came armed with a mandate from on high to engage in civil disobedience to the point of arrest.
In Detroit, a crowd of about 200 protesters locked arms across the street fronting a local McDonald's, causing a traffic backup and a shortage of officers available for school patrol:
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Union are your friends. Unions are the friends of Unions. The purpose of a thing is always itself. Remember?
You don't want to get an education or have any real skills but Burger Bun is willing to hire you since no one else can do the hard intellectual work of " Fries with that."
Ever thought about enlisting in the military, Dwayne ? Oh, you tried but they turned you down because you liked to stare at the other men in the platoon showers?
I though we had gotten beyond that since Clinton, but I guess not. Now its $15/hr. at Burger Butt. You have a bright future, Maurice.
Well, vote Democrat and get some "free stuff" and don't worry, be happy.
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Something to ponder whilst seated behind the garden. Insist your so-called minimum wage, burger-flip pay increases be linked to the CPI, similar to military retirees.
#3
This time, however, protesters came armed with a mandate from on high to engage in civil disobedience to the point of arrest.
Conspiracy to break the law? Nah, the unions*? Couldn't be. Next you're going to tell me they lost the emails too.
*any resemblance between the unions and organized crime strong arming is just a coincidence. Nice little operation you have here, be sad to see it experience an interruption in business.
#6
Once it got to Friday, with people wanting to catch a quick bite on the weekend, it's over.
Kinda like student demonstrations coinciding with finals week.
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Delayed McDonald orders up to 15 minutes. Wow! Just like normal.
[Ynet] Estonia says an officer of its internal security service has been kidnapped by unknown gunnies and taken across the border to Russia.
The Foreign Ministry says it summoned Russia's ambassador in connection with Friday's incident, which it called "disturbing."
The Estonian Internal Security Service said the officer was investigating cross-border crime when he was kidnapped at gunpoint on Estonian territory near the Luhamaa border checkpoint.
Foreign Minister Urmas Paet said Estonia expects "to receive all manner of cooperation necessary from Russia in solving this case and bringing the Estonian citizen back to Estonia."
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No, he's doing donuts in the front yard of anyone in his neighborhood who wants freedom, and Obama is helping him in as passive-aggresive a way (to the neighbors) as possible.
[Iran Press TV] Illegal migrants have held a rally in the French port city of Calais to protest police violence, harassment and bad living conditions.
Around 200 migrants staged the demonstration in Calais on Friday, saying they suffer from food and water shortage, and face the danger of being beaten and harassed by the police. The protesters were chanting, "no to police violence", and held up signs reading, "Where are our human rights?" ...which are usually open to widely divergent definitions...
Police presence in the city has been increased after dozens of migrants tried to storm a ferry bound for Britannia.
Usually migrants in Calais get into violent festivities with the police as they reportedly attempt to board boats and vehicles heading for the UK.
"I've been here for only a few days, but within these few days I have seen some inhuman things, like people who were beaten by police and harassment," said one of the protesters adding, "Here, it's human chaos: no food at all, shortage of water, lack of medication."
That, my dear, is mere unpleasantness. Inhuman is when ISIS takes all the men of the village, shoots most and hangs or crucifies the rest, then forcibly converts the women and children, sells the boys into slavery and the girls and women into sex slavery.
According to the city's authorities, the number of illegal migrants in Calais has risen due to the humanitarian crises in the Middle East and Africa.
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[ARABNEWS] Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan will seek the extradition of his ally-turned-foe, US-based holy man Fethullah Gulen, when he meets US President Barack Obama I am not a dictator!... at the NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A cautionary tale of cost-benefit analysis.... summit on Friday, Turkish media reports said.
Erdogan, inaugurated last week, has vowed to press his battle with Gulen and his supporters whom he accuses of using influence within the judiciary, police and state bureaucracy to plot against him in his final year as prime minister.
On his plane traveling to Wales for the summit, Erdogan told news hounds the "parallel structure," the expression he uses to describe Gulen supporters within the state apparatus, would be among subjects he would discuss with Obama there.
Gulen lives in self-imposed exile in Pennsylvania. His followers revere him as an enlightened, pro-Western face of moderate Islam but secular critics say he infiltrated government ranks with religiously-minded professionals. "Deport him or give him to us," the pro-government Yeni Safak and other newspapers quoted Erdogan as saying of Gulen. "Let him come and live in his own country if he says he hasn't committed a crime."
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He going to turn over the fuckers who defrauded Motorola and Nokia back in the early 2000s?
Even the world court told him to.
[DAWN] FAISALABAD: A 'blasphemy' case has been registered against 55 Christians, 35 of them nominated, and a Moslem on the allegation of desecrating hundreds of Moslem graves at Chak 206-GB.
It is learnt that the Christians flattened the graves after being informed by a local politician that the graveyard land had been allotted for their community.
The Muridwala police, on a complaint, started the paperwork but haven't done much else (316/14) under sections 295-C, 506-B, 447, 148 and 147 of the Pakistain Penal Code.
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[DAWN] Eleven new cases of polio ...Poliomyelitis is a disease caused by infection with the poliovirus. Between 1840 and the 1950s, polio was a worldwide epidemic. Since the development of polio vaccines the disease has been largely wiped out in the civilized world. However, since the vaccine is known to make Moslem pee-pees shrink and renders females sterile, bookish, and unsubmissive it is not widely used by the turban and automatic weapons set... have been detected on Friday in Khyber Pakhtunkhawa (KP) and Fata, increasing the number of cases so far this year to 138.
Official sources confirmed to Dawn.com that the new cases, reported to health authorities and polio programs, include three from KP and 8 from Fata.
Giving the breakup of cases, sources said that Bara Khyber Agency has the highest number with four cases, South Wazoo and North Waziristan Agency two each, while two cases in Bannu and Tank each.
The official further said that the high transmission season, from July to December, usually has more cases, a trend which has been witnessed in the last decade.
Comparatively, last year's figures were 31 by September 2013. This year's total has reached 138, with Fata on top with 102 cases. KP with 23, Sindh 11, Balochistan ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... and Punjab both had one case each.
In Fata the number of cases reported includes 64 from North Waziristan, 25 from Khyber Agency, 11 from South Waziristan and 2 from Bannu.
The fragile security situation across Fata and KP has left bordering towns high risk areas, which are more vulnerable to the virus spreading.
Earlier, Khyber Agency administration claimed that the P-3 polio virus has been eliminated from Bara while P-1 was still prevalent and that a special three-day campaign was being launched from September 8 to administer anti-polio vaccine to children.
Political Agent of Khyber Agency Shahab Ali Shah, speaking to the media in Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire. , said that the agency has always been portrayed negatively because of the polio virus spreading. He said that most of the areas remained inaccessible to polio teams which caused the problem.
Shah said however that special drives are being carried out to address the issue.
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[IsraelTimes] One of the biggest and certainly longest-living professional hacking operations in the world is history -- thanks to an Israeli company that discovered that thieves have been using a single system to break into computers for more than a decade.
Israeli cyber-security firm CyberIntel said Wednesday that it has broken the "Harkonnen Operation," which attacked government servers, banks, and large corporations in Germany, Switzerland ...home of the Helvetians, famous for cheese, watches, yodeling, and William Tell... , and Austria, using over 800 phony front companies -- all with the same IP address -- using unique malware to siphon secret and sensitive data off the servers.
The most shocking part, said CyberIntel CEO Koby Ben-Naim: "This scam has been going for more than a decade, since 2002."
Working from its Tel Aviv offices in conjunction with a partner in the UK, CyberIntel discovered the scam in August, after the company was invited in June by a German client to investigate a security breach it could not identify. "They knew they had been attacked, but couldn't figure out how," said Ben-Naim. That's because the Trojan horse that delivered the malware was unsigned, meaning that it had not been identified by anti-virus experts.
"Usually malware is mass-distributed in a particular package, and once it's identified as malware, anti-virus companies are able to update their systems to detect and eliminate it on client's computers," said Ben-Naim.
The unique twist was that the rogue Trojan horse application used to deliver the malware was different in each attack, said Ben-Naim, so no one "connected the dots" between one attack and the next. The only clue -- and the one CyberIntel used to confirm its suspicions that the scam was much bigger than anyone realized -- was the fact that the Trojans and the malware were all delivered from a narrow band of IP addresses, indicating a relationship among them.
In fact, the malware came from a phony company in the UK, which delivered the poisonous programs via e-mail and documents that surreptitiously installed the bad code on victims' servers. CyberIntel traced the malware to the UK address -- but checking out the DNS information on its owner, discovered that it was being used by no fewer than 833 companies. Not only was the IP address the same -- so was the contact information.
Why would employees of the German company click on the links that enable the hackers to do their dirty work? To make the scam look even more legitimate, the hackers purchased digital security certificates for the phony firms. Thanks to the certificates, the hacker fronts were considered legitimate, so no one bothered checking them out, said Ben-Naim -- and that's one reason the scam was able to go on for so long.
The digital certificate part of the operation was a stroke of hacker genius, said Ben-Naim, but it also indicates that whoever was behind the scam had deep pockets. "They invested about $150,000 to make this work, so clearly we are talking about professionals." It emerged that there were two sets of professionals, said Ben-Naim. "The hackers were hired hands, working for some other entity, which was interested in a wide variety of material."
In the past month, CyberIntel has been in touch with 300 current and former victims, who discovered digital clues indicating that the hackers stole sensitive documents -- studies on biological warfare and nuclear physics, as well as plans for key (and top-secret) infrastructure, along with the "usual" bank account and credit card data.
It had all the trappings of a coordinated, methodical attack by a large, wealthy, and cyber-savvy organization -- perhaps a government -- but Ben-Naim said he wouldn't necessarily go that far. "I prefer not to speculate on whether we are talking about a government program," he said. "If anything, it feels to me more like an organized crime operation."
Most surprising, said Ben-Naim, was how Internet regulators in the UK did not notice that over 800 shell companies were using the same IP addresses and contact information. "This was not necessarily the most sophisticated attack, because there were so many clues that something unusual was going on," he said. "I think it would be legitimate to ask some questions about the process involved here."
CyberIntel is about three years old, and has clients around the world. They include governments, armies, large banks, and other major institutions. "Our system is protecting thousands of endpoints in these organizations, recording discovery and prevention of globally headlined attacks while providing the deepest threat protection available," said Ben-Naim, while declining to name any of the company's clients.
The Harkonnen attacks showed just how easy it is for hackers to pull off a scam, said Ben-Naim. "One of the secrets of their success was that they were in and out quickly, so even though they used the same infrastructure to attack companies, they only remained on a server for a few months." In the case of their German client -- a 30 year old corporation with over 300 employees -- the hackers stayed on a little longer than usual, giving the company an opportunity to notice that something was amiss.
"The fact that the attacks were relatively short and specifically directed at certain data, and that the Trojans were unsigned, all contributed to the failure by anyone to realize that a major organized attack was going on for such a long time," he said. "'You can't be too careful' is a lesson I would take from this incident."
[Iran Press TV] A political commentator in Atlanta says that Americans must rise in "revolt" over the US government's violent policies and "craziness" against independent countries around the world.
Jim W. Dean, managing editor at Veterans Today, harshly criticized the B.O. regime's exploitation of the Ukraine crisis and provocation of Russia in order to serve Western geopolitical interests.
Dean particularly touched on the US-backed color revolutions that developed in several nations in the former Soviet Union and the Balkans during the early 2000s, which the Washington Post and the New York Times ...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... have reported substantial Western involvement in some of those events.
This "unbelievable situation" against Russia is still continuing until this day, Dean told Pres TV in a phone interview on Thursday.
"People have to get off their behinds and start protesting this and burying the White House under in phone calls," he stated. "The public, I'm very surprised, that they should have had more revolt here."
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Iff FERGUSON was suppos to be catalyst = "last/final straw", it hasn't happened + IMO won't. IT WILL HAVE TO BE SOMETHING MUCH STRONGER + "SOULFUL".
I hold to the view that any such catalyst for such an event will stem from when the post-2015, post-Nationalist, OWG-centric US Govt. unilaterally begins handing over sovereign US territories to Foreign States widout asking either the US Congress andor the Amer People to vote on it.
* E.G. GUAM-CNMI-WESTPAC = 1/2 OF PACIFIC? HAWAII = EASTPAC? 1/2 OF CONUS-NORAM? TO RISING CHINA = OWG CO-SUPERPOWER CHINA.
Its good OWG Marxism-Globalism = "US Retreat/Fallback is World Peace".
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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[MEDIAITE] Anyone who's ever used the internet knows what 4Chan is -- namely, a message board/community where the dregs of the internet birth memes, plot stunts, and share hundreds of celebrity naked photos obtained by hacking into their private iCloud accounts and scraping the previously-deleted photos from backup storage.
[Ynet] Nigerian health worker hospitalized in isolation with high fever, feeding fears of Israel's first Ebola patient; doctors follow new Heath Ministry protocols.
[CNN] The rare moments Christos Sourovelis can take a break from running his own painting business, he can be found toiling away on his family's dream house in the suburbs of Philadelphia.
Something to ponder whilst seated behind the garden. Insist your so-called minimum wage, burger-flip pay increases be linked to the CPI, similar to military retirees. 
[Ynet] Estonia says an officer of its internal security service has been 
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[IsraelTimes] One of the biggest and certainly longest-living professional hacking operations in the world is history -- thanks to an Israeli company that discovered that thieves have been using a single system to break into computers for more than a decade.
[Iran Press TV] A political commentator in Atlanta says that Americans must rise in "revolt" over the US government's violent policies and "craziness" against independent countries around the world.
