Aug 06
Times EnemyGeneral, news, security al qaeda, FBI, insecure news, news, spying
Al-Qaeda’s new ‘planning chief’ lived in US for 15 years
The FBI has warned that al-Qaeda’s new head of “global operational planning” is using his unprecedented familiarity with American society to plot attacks against the United States and other Western countries.
by Alex Spillius in Washington
Published: 8:04PM BST 06 Aug 2010
Investigators believe that Adnan Shukrijumah, 35, is “extremely dangerous” in part because of the experience he can draw on having lived in the US for 15 years.
Shukrijumah has taken over a position once held by Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the mastermind of the September 11 World Trade Center attacks, who was captured in 2003.
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Aug 02
Times EnemyChina, General, news, security China, information warfare, insecure news, news, Pentagon, spying, US DoD, wire tapping
Up front, this is insanity. Trust not the enemy.
US hackers eye alliances with kindred spirits in China
2 Aug 2010, 0011 hrs
LAS VEGAS: Veteran US hackers are on their way to China on a quest to foster alliances with peers and dispel notions that all of their kindred spirits there are cyber spies.
The budding effort was unveiled at an infamous DefCon hacker gathering in Las Vegas known for attracting rogue software savants that have found ways to crack things ranging from smartphones and Web browsers to power plants.
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Aug 02
Times EnemyGeneral, news, security GSM, information warfare, insecure news, phreak
Hacking into GSM for only $1500
By Bill Ray
Posted in Mobile, 2nd August 2010 12:38 GMT
A researcher at the DefCon hackers’ meet has demonstrated kit for spoofing GSM base stations, allowing even those on a limited budget to intercept phone calls and text messages.
The audience attending the talk by Chris Paget were able to see their own handsets transferring to his spoofed base station, with calls receiving a recorded message explaining that the security had been compromised, Associated Press reports. The demonstration would presumably have been a lot less impressive if Las Vegas had better 3G coverage.
Jul 29
Times EnemyGeneral, news, security gun laws, news
Arizona’s concealed-weapon law takes effect
by Kevin Kiley – Jul. 29, 2010 12:00 AM
The Arizona Republic
Today is the day gun-rights advocates have had in their sights for a long time.
Starting today, Arizona residents at least 21 years old can carry a concealed weapon without a permit.
The change is part of a broad weapons law by state Sen. Russell Pearce passed by the state Legislature in April that eases restrictions on concealed carry and stiffens penalties for committing a crime while carrying a concealed weapon.
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Jul 24
Times EnemyGeneral, news, security information warfare, insecure news, Iran, news
Cyber Wars in Iran
Regime deploys shadowy army of cyber-warriors to take on dissidents on the web.
By Khashayar Nouri – Iran
IRN Issue 45,
23 Jul 10
The internet is often seen as the domain of dissidents and free spirits. But the Iranian regime like many others has long recognised the importance of winning the virtual propaganda war, and the talk for the last couple of years has been of an “Iranian Cyber Army”, a band of dedicated regime loyalists who attack opposition websites and other virtual targets.
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Jul 19
Times EnemyGeneral, news, security CIA, imposters, information warfare, insecure news, Israel, news, Pentagon, red teams, spying, US DoD
Fictitious femme fatale fooled cybersecurity
Intel, defense specialists fell for ruse in test
By Shaun Waterman
8:07 p.m., Sunday, July 18, 2010
Call her the Mata Hari of cyberspace.
Robin Sage, according to her profiles on Facebook and other social-networking websites, was an attractive, flirtatious 25-year-old woman working as a “cyber threat analyst” at the U.S. Navy’s Network Warfare Command. Within less than a month, she amassed nearly 300 social-network connections among security specialists, military personnel and staff at intelligence agencies and defense contractors.
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Jul 15
Times EnemyGeneral, news insecure news, microsoft, news, open source, source code
Microsoft turns over all Win7 and server source code to Russia’s new KGB
By David Gewirtz | July 14, 2010, 9:27am PDT
It seems absurd. Microsoft, America’s preeminent software maker, provides the operating system for more than 90% of the world’s computers — including those used by the U.S. Government.
Microsoft has always carefully protected the source code to its operating systems. In fact, a key distinction between the various Windows variants and open source OSs like Linux and BSD is that Linux and BSD are open source.
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Jun 09
Times EnemyChina, General, news, security China, news, privacy
China Stands Behind Its Net Censorship
By: Geoff Duncan
June 8, 2010
A new white paper from the Chinese government defends the country’s rights to prohibit information that the government believes serves to subvert state power.
China is well-known to run the most sophisticated Internet censorship regime on the planet—dubbed The Great Firewall of China—that has been decried by many both within China and in the larger international community. Now the Chinese government has issued a new white paper defending the nation’s right to censor the Internet and prohibit the distribution of any information it believes to be harmful or a threat to the state’s power.
Jun 07
acmGeneral, rants and raves losers, rants
WikiLeaks’ founder, Julian Assange operates in a world of ignorance, self-righteousness, and hypocracy. He operates in secrecy because of a perceived threat, complete with code names for people, projects and events, yet he claims transparency should exist for all other entities. He is an imaginary freedom fighter whose ignorance causes more bad than good. His title, “Collateral Murder,” is his attempt to spin the term “collateral damage,” but even he has published documents which contained information about innocent people, which he shrugs off as “collateral damage, if you will.”
Jun 01
Times EnemyGeneral, news Google, linux, news, open source
Google HQ Bans Microsoft Windows In-House After Hacking Scare
By David Gelles and Richard Waters in San Francisco
Published: May 31 2010 23:26 | Last updated: May 31 2010 23:26
Google is phasing out the internal use of Microsoft’s ubiquitous Windows operating system because of security concerns, according to several Google employees.
The directive to move to other operating systems began in earnest in January, after Google’s Chinese operations were hacked, and could effectively end the use of Windows at Google, which employs more than 10,000 workers internationally.
“We’re not doing any more Windows. It is a security effort,” said one Google employee.
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May 21
Times EnemyChina, General, news, security China, India, information warfare, insecure news, news
http://indiatoday.intoday.in/site/Story/98208/World/Chinese+hackers+target+India’s+data+on+Naxals.html
Chinese hackers target India’s data on Naxals
Shuja-ul Haq
New Delhi, May 21, 2010
A joint investigation report by University of Toronto and Indian government has exposed China’s brazen hacking of New Delhi’s military secrets. Headlines Today has secured documents showing how the hackers stole secret information regarding security assessment on Maoists.
The documents were the outcome of a joint probe by cyber investigators from the University of Toronto and the Indian government. The report details how Chinese hackers accessed secret information from the computer of a member of the National Security Council secretariat.
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Mar 19
Times EnemyGeneral, news, security CIA, cyber warfare, information warfare, insecure news, news, Pentagon, US DoD
Dismantling of Saudi-CIA Web site illustrates need for clearer cyberwar policies
By Ellen Nakashima – Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, March 19, 2010
By early 2008, top U.S. military officials had become convinced that extremists planning attacks on American forces in Iraq were making use of a Web site set up by the Saudi government and the CIA to uncover terrorist plots in the kingdom.
“We knew we were going to be forced to shut this thing down,” recalled one former civilian official, describing tense internal discussions in which military commanders argued that the site was putting Americans at risk. “CIA resented that,” the former official said.
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Mar 18
Times EnemyGeneral, news, security Afghanistan, insecure news, news, Pakistan, Pentagon, spying, US Air Force, US DoD
This guy is an idiot. Maybe there is some other objective for running his mouth, but most likely not. Either way, this guy is acting the fool. Mark this guy as a pariah, pull his clearance, and cut all ties.
Bureaucrat Who Allegedly Hired ‘Jason Bournes’ Speaks
By Nathan Hodge Email Author
March 18, 2010; 11:15 am
The Pentagon official who allegedly boasted of running his own private team of “Jason Bournes” is finally speaking out.
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Mar 08
Times EnemyGeneral economics
Why Ad Blocking is devastating to the sites you love
By Ken Fisher
Did you know that blocking ads truly hurts the websites you visit? We recently learned that many of our readers did not know this, so I’m going to explain why.
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Nov 25
Times EnemyGeneral, news news, osama bin laden, politics
osama bin laden’s ‘letter to America’
# Observer.co.uk, Sunday 24 November 2002 12.07 GMT
In the Name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful,
“Permission to fight (against disbelievers) is given to those (believers) who are fought against, because they have been wronged and surely, Allah is Able to give them (believers) victory” [Quran 22:39]
“Those who believe, fight in the Cause of Allah, and those who disbelieve, fight in the cause of Taghut (anything worshipped other than Allah e.g. Satan). So fight you against the friends of Satan; ever feeble is indeed the plot of Satan.”[Quran 4:76]
Oct 31
Times EnemyGeneral business tips, economics
Here’s an Idea That’s Not Quite Ripe
By: Andrew Goldsmith October 31, 1997
Consultant Debunking Unit
How is a company like an orchard? In the minds of some consultants, we’re all field hands and they’re the Johnny Appleseeds of change. And the right way to work those trees? It’s advice we’ve all heard: pick the low-hanging fruit.
SeaBird Associates Inc., a Boca Raton, Florida sales-consulting outfit, gives this advice on its SalesDoctors Web site: “Take an orchard view of the situation.” In case of a severe frost, say these consultants, “your sales team needs to adopt an emergency ‘low-hanging fruit’ plan.”
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