Ron Paul speaks out on Congress’ outrageous privacy bill

From Ron Paul:

This week, as Americans were horrified by the attacks in Boston, both houses of Congress considered legislation undermining our liberty in the name of “safety.”

Gun control continued to be the focus of the Senate, where an amendment expanding federal “background checks” to gun show sales and other private transfers dominated the debate. While the background check amendment failed to pass, proponents of gun control have made it clear [...]

Stop CISPA! Internet Blackout Planned to Protest Anti-Privacy Bill CISPA On April 22

Anonymous: CISPA Internet Blackout April 22nd

The internet is bracing itself for a blackout in protest against CISPA on Monday, as the controversial law makes its way to the US Senate. Hacktivist group Anonymous has urged for the blackout and is now storming Twitter with calls for action.

http://rt.com/usa/anonymous-internet-blackout-against-cispa-164/

from Reddit:

Official Unofficial CISPA Discussion Thread.

What is going on?

CISPA, or The Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act is a bill that has just passed [...]

URGENT: CISPA Vote Tomorrow – This Bill Gives The Government Essentially Unlimited Power To Spy On You In The Name of National Security

There is a CISPA vote in Congress tomorrow. We need to bring some attention to this before they pass it right under our noses!

Take action here and here

http://theanti-media.org/2013/04/15/cispa-vote-wednesday-tell-congress-to-oppose-anti-privacy-cyber-security-bill/

 

CISPA Amendment Proves Everyone’s Fears Were Justified While Failing To Assuage Them

from the the-more-things-change dept

The single biggest criticism of CISPA is that it could be used by the federal government in a way that infringes on people’s privacy, allowing government agencies, including the NSA, to sift through the private [...]

Cyber Security Goes Ballistic

Jarno Limnéll and Jan Hanska
hstoday.us
April 15, 2013

The Whitehouse recently announced that President Barack Obama has the authority to initiate a preventive cyber strike in the event that an attack on the US is threatened. This announcement means that in the cyber domain, the military now has the authority to attack foreign nations, regardless of whether or not the US is involved in a conflict with them. This pre-emptive cyber policy [...]

DOJ Wants More for Prisons Than U.S. Security

Courthouse News
April 11, 2013

President Obama’s proposed 2014 budget for the Department of Justice will spend $4.1 billion more on prisons than on “national security,” the Justice Department revealed Wednesday.

Attorney General Eric Holder on Wednesday released the proposed 2014 budget for the Department of Justice: $27.6 billion – $1.6 billion less than the FY 2013 Justice budget, due to sequestration.

President Obama’s proposal for the Justice Department is up 3 percent from [...]

DHS Using Video Games to Recruit Top Students as Cyber Warriors To Help Counter Cyberthreats – It’s Also a Game.

Good news parents. If your kid in the basement is good at video games he has a future in the DHS. They are looking for above average gamer’s to become cyber-warrior’s and hackers to defend our country from cyber-attacks from other countries!

So go buy the kid a case of redbull and a bag of cheese puffs and let him play viedos all night long. Good luck young lads!

In the last few years [...]

NSA Chief Says America Is Ready to Cyberattack

Lorenzo Franceschi
mashable.com
March 15, 2013

For the first time, NSA chief and head of the U.S. Cyber Command Gen. Keith Alexander admitted America is ready to attack in cyberspace. Never before has a U.S. official acknowledged that the U.S. government is working on or is in possession of malware capable of attacking a foreign nation in a cyber conflict, despite the fact that at least one attack — the famous Stuxnext worm [...]

German telecom company provides real-time map of Cyber attacks

In hopes of blunting mounting electronic assaults, a German telecommunications carrier unveiled a free online capability that shows where Cyber attacks are happening around the world in real time.

Deutsche Telekom, parent company of T-Mobile, put up what it calls its “Security dashboard” portal on March  6. The map, said the company, is based on attacks on its purpose-built network of decoy “honeypot” systems at 90 locations worldwide

Deutsche Telekom said it [...]

Obama Has Created Twice As Much Regulation than Anyone in History

armstrongeconomics.com / By Martin Armstrong / March 4, 2013

Obama’s regulation binge has impacted every sector. This is a man that clearly believes in government regulating everything just like Russia and China use to. In the EPA, he has done everything under the assumption man has created global warming ignoring ice core samples that prove the energy output of the sun fluctuates in a system with a duration of about 300 years. The [...]

CISPA’s back: Hacking, online espionage resurrect cybersecurity bill

RT
Feb 10, 2013

The Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection act (CISPA) will be reintroduced before the US House next week following a spate of cyber espionage and hacking attacks. Civil liberties advocates have criticized the bill for violating privacy laws.

The House Intelligence Committee’s Chairman Mike Rogers (R-Mich.) and ranking member Rep. Dutch Ruppersberger (D-Md.) will attempt to breathe new life into CISPA on Wednesday.

The bill will be identical to the version [...]

WARNING! Cybergeddon Imminent – US Government To Launch Pre-emptive Cyber Strikes, Anonymous Has Declared Global Cyber War I, A Pre-emptive Nuclear Strike Against China Is Now Part of US Law!! Big Sis Threatens: Cyber 9/11 Could Happen “Imminently”

Prepare for the Coming Cyber Wars: US Government to launch Pre-emptive Cyber Strikes

For years we have warned our readers about the dangers that a full scale cyber-attack could have on our infrastructure; now those dangers are even higher as the Federal Government prepares to launch Pre-emptive cyber strikes against rogue nations.

According to the New York Times, President Barack Obama has just concluded a secret legal review of the administration’s new cyber war [...]

Prepare for the Coming Cyber Wars: US Government to launch Pre-emptive Cyber Strikes

For years we have warned our readers about the dangers that a full scale cyber-attack could have on our infrastructure; now those dangers are even higher as the Federal Government prepares to launch Pre-emptive cyber strikes against rogue nations.

According to the New York Times, President Barack Obama has just concluded a secret legal review of the administration’s new cyber war guidelines. The guidelines give President Obama the power to order pre-emptive cyber [...]

Pentagon’s new massive expansion of ‘cyber-security’ unit is about everything except defense

Cyber-threats are the new pretext to justify expansion of power and profit for the public-private National Security State

Glenn Greenwald
Guardian.co.uk
January 28, 2013

As the US government depicts the Defense Department as shrinking due to budgetary constraints, the Washington Post this morning announces “a major expansion of [the Pentagon's] cybersecurity force over the next several years, increasing its size more than fivefold.” Specifically, says the New York Times this morning, “the expansion would increase the Defense [...]

Big Sis Urges ‘Good Cyber-Hygiene’

Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano warned internet users at the Wilson Center this morning that cyberspace was becoming more dangerous as more and more Americans go online.

“Every individual on the net is vulner – is a potential, uh, opening,” Napolitano stated, adding that the internet was a “great thing.”

“We just want to make sure that everyone remains safe and free,” she continued. “So that requires everyone to take some responsibility, [...]

10,000 Indian Government & Military Emails Hacked

India’s government and military organisations have faced one of the most devastating and worst cyber attacks in the nation’s history when 10,000 emails from top government ministries and military officials were hacked, ignoring the earlier warning from National Critical Information Infrastructure Protection Centre (India’s Cyber Security Agency) about upcoming cyber attacks.

http://hackread.com/10000-indian-gov…emails-hacked/

All Federal Employees will Soon be Required to take Cybersecurity Training and Become Governmental Spies :Essentially, what the Obama Administration wants from this failed senate bill is an all out Orwellian style intergovernmental spy ring!

By Shepard Ambellas
theintelhub.com
December 12, 2012

Forming adequate cybersecurity protection as an individual, private corporation, or government entity is a tough task in present times with technology, hackers, and cyber terrorists advancing at rapid rates.

A major question now facing America is whether or not the government should to be in charge of our individual, private, and corporate cyber security issues? Apparently the Obama Administration thinks so.

In fact, he is so adamant on the [...]

Intelligence Asset Anonymous Declares Cyber War on Syria

Kurt Nimmo
Infowars.com
December 1, 2012

The Anonymous hackster collective has announced it will attack Syrian websites outside the country in response to the Syrian government shutting down the internet in that country.

Anonymous’ declaration of war follows a story published in the New York Times on November 28 reporting that the U.S. is ready for direct intervention in Syria.

In a press release issued on Thursday, the shadowy group admitted it “has been working with Syrian activists [...]

Fed’s Lockhart: Markets viewed by some as too small to cause much trouble before the 2008 crisis had ended up posing systemic-scale problems.

Fed’s Lockhart Sees Risk in Cybercrime, Underfunded Pensions

from Money News:

A top Federal Reserve official warned on Tuesday of potential risks to financial stability from cyberattacks on the U.S. payments system and from a looming funding gap in public pensions.

In a speech to a conference in the German capital, the president of the Atlanta Federal Reserve, Dennis Lockhart, said that at a global level the span of vigilance needed to be [...]

Cyber Security Fails As 3.6 Million Social Security Numbers Breached In South Carolina

Anthony Wing Kosner
Forbes
October 27, 2012

 

South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley announced Friday that, “This is not a good day for South Carolina.” The bad news was having to admit a massive security breach in the State’s Department of Revenue that resulted in the theft of 3.6 million social security numbers and 387,000 credit/debit card numbers (only 16,000 of which, it is believed, were unencrypted,) This incident affects more than three-quarters of [...]

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Obama to “Compromise” On Unconstitutional Cyber Security Executive Order

Kurt Nimmo
Infowars.com
October 25, 2012

The Obama administration will modify its cyber security executive order to make it more politically palatable.

“President Obama is reported to be willing to compromise on cybersecurity,” writes Taylor Armerding for CSO Online, a network security website.

More than a month after rumors about Obama’s executive order, “there are reports that a final draft is circulating that includes a major compromise to settle differences between those who want government to have free [...]

US Defense Chief Warns of ‘Cyber Pearl Harbor’

rian.ru
October 12, 2012

The United States is facing a possible “cyber Pearl Harbor” carried out by computer hackers that could result in infrastructure damage and loss of life, US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said.

Calling the Internet a “battlefield of the future” where America’s enemies “can seek to do harm to our country, to our economy, and to our citizens,” Panetta said in a speech Thursday evening that the US Congress must [...]

Anti-Virus’ Giants including Avira & ESET hacked!

Anti-Virus’ Giants including Avira & ESET hacked, database leaked by #NullCrew

Null Crew who have been taken down some major servers these days, have now released data from an attack on some big time cyber giants.

Among the hacked servers, some major big fishes of cyber security are included, for example Norman SandBox, Avira, Eset, Bitdefender, CyberDefender, GFI SandBox, Kaspersky Lab, NoVirusThanks, Panda Autovin and Symantec etc.

http://www.hackread.com/anti-virus-g…d-by-nullcrew/

ALERT: Highly Sophisticated Large Scale Cyberheist Targets Customer Funds at Major U.S. Banks

Mac Slavo
October 9th, 2012
SHTFplan.com

 

A credible threat to the U.S. banking system has been identified by cyber security firm RSA and suggests that plans for a highly organized, large scale online bank heist targeting retail customers in the United States is currently underway.

 

In an advisory, RSA said it has information suggesting the gang plans to unleash a little-known Trojan program to infiltrate computers belonging to US banking customers and to use the [...]

Five longtime dividend growers to put on your watch list now

From Dividend Growth Investor:

Over the past week, the boards of directors for several income stocks approved plans to boost investors’ dividends. Only five of these companies had boosted distributions for over five consecutive years.

In this article I have presented only the companies that passed the first screen, along with a brief analysis of each company. The companies include:

Lockheed Martin Corporation (LMT), a security and aerospace company, engages in the research, [...]

Cyber Attack on US Banks is an Obvious False Flag

Eric Blair
Infowars.com
Sept 30, 2012

Over a month ago we featured an article titled The NWO Agenda Would Move Forward with This One Simple Act, which stated the one event that could accomplish all of the agenda’s goals in one shot would be “a false flag cyber attack on Western banking institutions that they can pin on Iran.”

Please watch this exact scenario unfold in this short ABC news clip from a few days [...]

U.S. Officialdom Blames Iran for Cyber Attacks on Banks

Kurt Nimmo
Infowars.com
September 21, 2012

In a follow-up to a story posted on the neocon website FreeBeacon.com edited by Washington Post scribe Bill Gertz, NBC reports that national security officials believe Iran is responsible for cyber attacks on the commercial websites of JPMorgan Chase and Bank of America.

“One of those sources said the claim by hackers that the attacks were prompted by the online video mocking the Prophet Muhammad is just a cover story,” NBC reports.

The [...]

Big Sis: Obama Ready to Sign Surveillance Grid Executive Order

Kurt Nimmo
Infowars.com
September 20, 2012

Homeland Security boss Janet Napolitano told a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing on Wednesday that a blatantly unconstitutional Obama administration executive order is “still being drafted in the inter-agency process” and “is close to completion depending on a few issues that need to be resolved at the highest levels.”

The latest Obama EO – he has issued 135 thus far – is a response to the failure of a cybersecurity bill [...]

GoDaddy Hacktivist boasts he can bring down Google, too

Donna Anderson
Examiner.com
September 11, 2012

At 8 a.m. EST on September 11, 2012, hacktivist @AnonymousOwn3r was back on his Twitter feed, bragging about yesterday’s shutdown of down GoDaddy.com. Today, he’s letting everyone know he can take down Google, too.

As stated in a previous article, AnonymousOwn3r claims he’s working solo this time around and his attack on GoDaddy.com had nothing to do with the political hacktivist organization Anonymous. And so far he still hasn’t issued any statement [...]

Millions of GoDaddy sites go offline

Millions of GoDaddy sites taken offline by hackers

GoDaddy.com, the largest domain name registrar on the Web, has been taken offline, and a self-proclaimed member of the Anonymous hacktivism collective is taking responsibility.

The administrators of GoDaddy confirmed on Monday that they were suffering from technical issues, which the website TechCrunch reports to be impacting a multitude of websites and their affiliated email accounts that are hosted through the service. Although the [...]

New Bill Threatens to Effective Ban Sale of Online Ammunition – Stock Up Now. Not just on ammunition, but high capacity magazines.

Mac Slavo
SHTFplan.com
July 31th, 2012

With the United Nations poised to sign an international arms treaty that would regulate global arms sales and ownership, and Congressional members just days ago attempting to sneak a nationwide restriction on “high capacity magazines” into a cyber security bill, the attack on firearm ownership in America is now in full swing.

This afternoon democrat Senators Frank Lautenberg and Carolyn McCarthy unveiled what may possibly be the most sweeping anti-second amendment legislative action [...]

Congress is now pushing for a major ban on ammunition sales

From SHTFplan:

With the United Nations poised to sign an international arms treaty that would regulate global arms sales and ownership, and Congressional members just days ago attempting to sneak a nationwide restriction on “high capacity magazines” into a cyber security bill, the attack on firearm ownership in America is now in full swing.

This afternoon, Democrat Senators Frank Lautenberg and Carolyn McCarthy unveiled what may be the most sweeping anti-Second Amendment legislative [...]

BREAKING: IRAN THREATENS “TEETH-BREAKING” RESPONSE AGAINST U.S. IF ANOTHER CYBER-ATTACK IS LAUNCHED

Iran threatens cyber-attackers with ‘teeth-breaking’

07/25/2012 17:00

DUBAI - The United States will face a “teeth-breaking” response if it continues to carry out cyber attacks against Iran, an Iranian official said on Wednesday.

“If the Americans’ futile cyber attacks do not stop, it will face a teeth-breaking response,” the Iranian Students’ News agency quoted an unnamed cyber security official as saying. He gave no further details.

 

http://www.jpost.com/Headlines/Article.aspx?id=278877

 

Iranian nuclear plants reportedly ‘Thunderstruck’ by AC/DC computer virus

Finnish cyber-security [...]

Flame malware, created by US government, could wreck critical infrastructure

J. D. Heyes
Natural News
June 21, 2012

(NaturalNews) Some scientists have called nuclear bombs weapons they wish the world could un-invent. Now some are saying the same thing about cyberweapons, an expanding new form of “combat” aimed at debilitating or destroying an enemy’s computerized infrastructure.

One such scientist is Eugene Kaspersky, whose security lab recently discovered the suspected U.S. and Israeli-generated Flame virus that has been used to attack computers in Iran and [...]

Cyber attack is ‘single largest threat’ to U.S.: House Intelligence Committee head

WASHINGTON—Cyber attacks represent “probably the single largest threat” facing the United States, the chairman of the U.S. House of Representatives Intelligence Committee said Monday.

Speaking during a Washington briefing held by The Week magazine and Zurich Insurance Co. Ltd., Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Mich.—author of a cyber security bill that has passed the House that would encourage greater participation by the private sector in cyber security efforts—said the “threat changes by the [...]