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Berto Jongman: State-Sponsored Industrial Cyber-Espionage

Advanced Cyber/IO
Berto Jongman
Berto Jongman

State-backed data spies hunt industrial secrets

State-sponsored industrial espionage became a bigger cyber-threat to companies in 2012, a report indicates.

Statistics gathered for Verizon's annual data breach report suggested state-sponsored hacking attacks were now the number two cyber-threat.

Top of the list were hackers looking to steal money after breaking into corporate networks,

Often, the report said, companies took months to spot a breach and discover what data had been stolen.

The study was published to coincide with Infosec – an annual security conference in London.

While hackers had financial motives in 75% of the cyber-attacks analysed for the report, in 20% of cases the perpetrators were after trade secrets or intellectual property, it stated.

“The number one statistical change we noticed is the level of state-sponsored espionage,” said security analyst Wade Baker, lead author on the report. “That's a lot higher.”

He added that 2012 was the first year that there were so many espionage-motivated attacks that they deserved their own category.

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Berto Jongman: Connecting Iran & Hezbollah to Boston — Iranian Denial (on Canada) — USA Irony

07 Other Atrocities, Ethics, Government
Berto Jongman
Berto Jongman

Kahlili is  a questionable source but he did predict that Canada would be next. He also has several lines indicating that US intelligence was warned and informed about the threat.

We have to see what happens now in France and the UK. There are indications that Hezbollah networks in Europe have been strengthened and activated. The attack in Bulgaria last year is still not solved and widely debated. Israel wants it to be a Hezbollah attack. If definite proof is found that will be a reason for the EU to blacklist Hezbollah. Over the last few months there has been a tremendous pressure by Israel and the US on the EU to do this.

I have been following this hypothesis since 2004 since I read Kenneth Timmerman's Countdown to Crisis: The Coming Nuclear Showdown with Iran, which included the official minutes of a meeting between Quds Force officials, Ayman al Zawahiri and Imad Mugniyeh discussing the strategy which Kahlili now lays out in his article. I found it a plausible hypothesis but over the last ten years I have never been able to get support for it. Very few people actually had read the book which is a must read if you want to be informed about developments in Iran.

Kahlili has today an article about the panic in Iran about his previous articles saying there was a link to Iran. Today a car bomb attack against the French embassy in Tripoli. If Kahlili is right the next attack should be against a UK target. Even when Kahlili is not trustworthy his articles are having an impact which is why I follow this guy.

Iran planned Boston bombings for 2 years

Source reveals research included high-value targets inside U.S.

Qasem Soleimani, the head of Iran’s Quds Forces, ordered reconnaissance and intelligence gathering on various events and public gatherings in the United States years ago, culminating in the bombings at the Boston Marathon one week ago, WND has learned.

According to a source within Iran’s intelligence services, the Islamic regime’s Quds Forces, a special unit of the Revolutionary Guards in charge of extraterritorial operations, have done extensive planning on gatherings, events and high-value targets in the United States for some time, but for two years focused on events such as the Boston Marathon.

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Berto Jongman: Online Trackers, Inaccurate Assumptions, Dangers

Commerce, Ineptitude
Berto Jongman
Berto Jongman

Online tracking debate heats up after flaws exposed

North Carolina resident Dan Tynan has taken a stand against marketing companies that track his movements online by exposing the comical inaccuracies of the data they collect.

After noticing several ads for mobile phones for the elderly as he browsed the web, Tynan discovered that hundreds of marketers were tracking his every move and coming to inaccurate conclusions about his identity.

“Some thought I was a soccer mom and some thought I was a trendy homemaker,” says Tynan, who is clearly neither.

Privacy advocates warn collecting data about individuals through the web could be dangerous, for instance because it could enable groups like insurance companies to make assumptions that could hurt consumers.

Meanwhile, US policymakers have been debating a series of proposals labelled Do Not Track, which would enable internet users to turn off online ad tracking.

But the Direct Marketing Association, which represents online marketers, says most internet users know they are being tracked online and find the ads helpful.

Watch short video from BBC.

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Eagle: Major Terrorism Exercises in USA, 1962 Lecture by Aldous Huxley

09 Terrorism, Civil Society, Government, Law Enforcement
300 Million Talons...
300 Million Talons…

This is something I've been seeing postings about for the last few days. It directly relates to a lecture Aldous Huxley gave in 1962 at UC Berkley.  I'm saying this relates because the is a portion where he talks about getting the people to love their servitude. In these exercises, volunteers will be the victims.

Preparing for Major Terrorism Exercises Three Cities

The federal government has begun preparing three U.S. cities for large-scale, 10-day terrorism-response exercises scheduled this month.

Beginning sometime between May 7 and May 29, local, state and top level federal authorities will respond to simulated weapons of mass destruction attacks in three cities — Denver, Portsmouth, N.H., and the Washington, D.C.-area.

Denver or Portsmouth will face either a simulated biological or a chemical weapons attack. The D.C. metropolitan area will respond to a radiological attack drill — which could range from simply an exposed container of radioactive material to a small nuclear detonation.

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Eagle: Billions Being Spent on US Nuclear Bombs in Europe

Peace Intelligence
300 Million Talons...
300 Million Talons…

Obama accused of nuclear U-turn as guided weapons plan emerges

Plan to spend $10bn on updating nuclear bombs goes against 2010 pledge not to deploy new weapons, say critics

EXTRACT:

According to newly published budget figures, the US will spend about $10bn (£6.5bn) on a life extension programme for the B61 bombs, and another $1bn on adding controllable tail fins. Kristensen said the tail kit would give the B61 new capabilities, once some of the upgraded weapons were deployed as scheduled in Europe in 2019 or 2020.

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Greg Palast: Venezuela’s Recent Election — A History of Democracy Against Empire

Corruption, Cultural Intelligence, Ethics, Government, Peace Intelligence
Greg Palast
Greg Palast

Did Chavez’ Pick Steal the Election in Venezuela?

By Greg Palast for Vice Magazine – Leer el artículo en español aquí.

Tuesday, 23. April 2013

The guy in the cheap brown windbreaker walking up the dirty tenement steps to my New York office looked like a bus driver.

Nicolas Maduro, elected President of Venezuela last Sunday, did indeed drive a bus, then led the drivers’ union, then drove Chávez’ laws through the National Assembly as Venezuela’s National Assembly chief.

And this week, the US State Department is refusing to accept the result, suggesting Maduro hijacked the vote count. But did he?

EXTRACT:

Chávez himself read my findings on potential elections theft – to his nation on his TV show – and then he moved swiftly, establishing an election system that Jimmy Carter, who has headed vote observer teams in 92 nations, called, “an election process that is the best in the world”.

Here’s how it works: every Venezuelan voter gets TWO ballots. One is electronic, the second is a paper print-out of the touch-screen ballot, which the voter reviews, authorises, then places in a locked ballot-box. An astounding 54 percent of the boxes are chosen at random to open and check against the computer tally. It’s as close to a bulletproof count as you can get.

Still, the loser bitched and – his bluff called – was allowed to pick all the precincts he wanted – 12,000 – to add to the audit.

And that’s why the US State Department then has to turn to the threat of bullets and “Third Ring” mayhem in the streets – to undermine the legitimacy of the new Maduro government and signal the US willingness to support a new coup.

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Jean Lievins: Social Innovation Management

Academia, Advanced Cyber/IO, Civil Society, Cultural Intelligence, Ethics
Jean Lievens
Jean Lievens

Post-Graduate Certificate in Social Innovation Management

Amani Institute in Nairobe

This unique, field-based program brings together a group of competitively selected, highly talented individuals from around the world. You receive a holistic, future-oriented training endorsed by leaders across the social, business, education, and government sectors. Your 5-months in Nairobi will possess the depth and pace necessary to train for effective social change making – the intensity is equivalent to a 2-year traditional master's degree.

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