Editors Note: (Ralph Turchiano)- Requested Repost from Oct 2103 Published time: October 28, 2013 02:01 Reuters / Jim Young Access classified data without authorization, use your account after you’ve been fired, or anonymously request a new account for an… Read More ›
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Secretive trade pact called ‘most harmful ever’ for affordable medicine
Closed to the public, but some 600 corporations, including Walmart and Monsanto are the Trade advisors. Global health advocates say the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a proposed trade agreement between the US and 11 other countries, is an attack on public health…. Read More ›
Secret Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP) The Documents (HTML)
Today, 13 November 2013, WikiLeaks released the secret negotiated draft text for the entire TPP (Trans-Pacific Partnership) Intellectual Property Rights Chapter. The TPP is the largest-ever economic treaty, encompassing nations representing more than 40 per cent of the world’s GDP…. Read More ›
WikiLeaks publishes secret draft chapter of Trans-Pacific Partnership / ‘would trample over individual rights and free expression’
Treaty negotiated in secret between 12 nations ‘would trample over individual rights and free expression’, says Julian Assange Alex Hern and Dominic Rushe theguardian.com, Wednesday 13 November 2013 13.12 EST Demonstrators protest against the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) after… Read More ›
Britain ‘snooped’ on Icelandic officials’ emails to recover cash from broken banks
Published time: November 10, 2013 12:06 AFP Photo / Nicholas Kamm An Icelandic MP says Britain spied on Iceland while wrestling to rescue its citizens’ cash from collapsed Icelandic banks after the financial crisis. Birgitta Jónsdóttir claims she received… Read More ›
The Bank of America Keyword list is confirmed ( Hundreds of Classified Project Titles )
Engineering Evil Commentary on the code word list: The original release of the Keyword list was 28 FEB 2013. Since then the URL of the hacking group has been taken down. The hypothesis behind the confirmation is due to that… Read More ›
Laptops Snowden took to Hong Kong, Russia were a “diversion”
Source: Reuters – Fri, 11 Oct 2013 04:42 PM Author: Reuters By Mark Hosenball WASHINGTON, Oct 11 (Reuters) – The four laptop computers that former U.S. spy contractor Edward Snowden carried with him to Hong Kong and Moscow were a… Read More ›
US indicts 13 suspected members of Anonymous hacking collective
Indictment filed in US district court in Virginia charges that members attacked government and credit card websites Reuters in Washington theguardian.com, Thursday 3 October 2013 17.15 EDT The loose-knit international group known as Anonymous has been in frequent battle with… Read More ›
Julian Assange’s ( Wikileaks ) Recived grants from NSA and DARPA to fund his graduate Crypto Reserach?
US Gov’t Funded Julian Assange’s Crypto Research… Then Pulled The Plug from the it-all-comes-back-around dept PandoDaily has a fascinating story from Peiter Zatko who had known Julian Assange way back in the day, and last ran into him at Chaos… Read More ›
Federal court order prohibits Brown from talking to the media in what critics say is latest in crackdown on investigative journalism
US stops jailed activist Barrett Brown from discussing leaks prosecution Ed Pilkington in New York theguardian.com, Wednesday 4 September 2013 17.50 EDT Brown’s lawyer says the gagging order is a breach of Brown’s first amendment rights. Photograph: Nikki Loehr A… Read More ›
U.S. intelligence agencies spend millions to hunt for insider threats, document shows
By Carol D. Leonnig, Julie Tate and Barton Gellman, Published: September 1 The U.S. government suspects that individuals with connections to al-Qaeda and other hostile groups have repeatedly sought to obtain jobs in the intelligence community, and it reinvestigates thousands of… Read More ›
Journalist Michael Hastings was working on story about CIA Chief John Brennan at the time of his mysterious death / The day he was killed, He sent an email to his editors alerting them that the federal government was investigating him
Brennan has has been described in secret emails from the President of CIA contractor Stratfor as being on a ‘witch hunt’ of investigative journalists. The day he was killed, Hastings sent an email to his editors alerting them that the… Read More ›
Lies, damn lies, and China’s economic statistics
15 Aug 2013 BEIJING (AFP) China has soared almost to the top of the world’s economic league tables, but whether the official data underpinning its status can be trusted is a constant headache, analysts say. Simmering unease regarding China’s economic… Read More ›
Math Behind Leak Crackdown: 153 Cases, 4 Years, 0 Indictments
July 20, 2013 By SHARON LaFRANIERE Soon after President Obama appointed him director of national intelligence in 2009, Dennis C. Blair called for a tally of the number of government officials or employees who had been prosecuted for… Read More ›
Russian Agency Seeks Typewriters for Secret Documents
With the NSA spying scandal still making headlines, a Russian paper reports that agencies in that country have turned to typewriters to help keep their documents secret. It sounds like a Luddite response to recent revelations from Edward Snowden —… Read More ›
Little known search engine that refuses to store data on users doubles web traffic amid NSA tapping scandal
DuckDuckGo, based in Pennsylvania, does not share user data with sites This means fewer advertisements and results that are not skewed for users Firm saw web traffic double in the wake of Snowden NSA tapping leak By Helen Collis PUBLISHED:… Read More ›
US Govt threatens Federal workers, must spy on each other / pay particular attention to the lifestyles, attitudes and behaviors
Wednesday, 10 July 2013 In an initiative aimed at rooting out future leakers and other security violators, President Barack Obama has ordered federal employees to report suspicious actions of their colleagues based on behavioral profiling techniques that are not… Read More ›
WikiLeaks volunteer was a paid informant for the FBI
Posted By Wired On 12:22 PM 06/27/2013 In World | On an August workday in 2011, a cherubic 18-year-old Icelandic man named Sigurdur “Siggi” Thordarson walked through the stately doors of the U.S. embassy in Reykjavík, his jacket pocket concealing… Read More ›
Feds Cracking Down on Classified Gatekeepers / federal contractor pleaded guilty to lying about conducting background checks on government employees
By ADAM KLASFELD WASHINGTON (CN) – A federal contractor pleaded guilty to lying about conducting background checks on government employees – a crime that prosecutors say is becoming increasingly common. The U.S. government had indicted Ramon Davila in 2011 for… Read More ›
DoD: If You See A Leaked NSA Document, Press SHIFT And DELETE To Get Rid Of It
from the this-again dept We saw this back when Wikileaks released a bunch of documents and the Defense Department and other government agencies told employees that they weren’t allowed to look at any of the documents, even though they were… Read More ›
Challenging Monsanto: Over two million march the streets of 436 cities, 52 countries
Published time: May 24, 2013 09:51 Edited time: May 25, 2013 23:43 Millions of activists around the world have rallied against Monsanto, the biotechnology giant for genetically engineering agriculture and food while suppressing negative scientific research. Organized by the ‘March… Read More ›
[Up to $20 Trillion U.S.] Offshore financial industry leak exposes identities of thousands of holders of anonymous wealth from around the world
Identities of the rich who hide cash offshore David Leigh The Guardian, Wednesday 3 April 2013 18.59 EDT The British Virgin Islands, the world’s leading offshore haven used by an array of government officials and rich families to hide their wealth…. Read More ›
US secrecy policy run as though formed by Orwell and Kafka – top official
William Leonard, who oversaw state secrecy under George W Bush, says successive US presidents have abused system Ed Pilkington in New York guardian.co.uk, Friday 15 March 2013 13.26 EDT Leonard said new executive powers had been created without congressional… Read More ›
Bank of America accused of spying on Activist: “Even more amusing is the keyword list that was found, containing trigger words like ‘jihad’ or ‘homosexual’.”
Anonymous leaks ‘Bank of America secrets’ in spy revenge hack Hacktivists enraged by suggestion financial giant snooped on them By John Leyden Posted in Security, 27th February 2013 16:34 GMT Free whitepaper – IDC Report: Lost in the Cloud? Automate… Read More ›
Supporters Wail as Judge Denies Bail to Hactivist : The hack that exposed the private information of 860,000 Stratfor clients
By ADAM KLASFELD MANHATTAN (CN) – A federal judge refused release to one of the men accused of helping Anonymous and others hack various media, government and private-spy websites last year. Jeremy Hammond was one of five so-called hacktivists arrested… Read More ›
GhostShell leaks 2.5 million Russian government accounts as #ProjectBlackstar
Posted by Mohit Kumar on 11/03/2012 05:14:00 AM | Team GhostShell hackers group who was responsible for the recent leak of some millions of records from top universities around the world once again strike back. As the part of “Project… Read More ›
Anonymous Threatens to Shutdown Facebook – Dude, do you have any Idea ?
Posted by Mohit Kumar on 11/02/2012 05:01:00 AM | Do you believe that it is possible to shut down Facebook with a cyber attack on 5th November 2012, which is not even organised in a proper way ? Few activists… Read More ›
Anonymous going to lauch wikileaks like project called TYLER
Posted by Mohit Kumar on 10/23/2012 10:42:00 AM | International hacker group Anonymous is going to create a WikiLeaks competitor scandalous leak portal called Tyler, for the publication of secret information from governments of various countries. One of the group’s… Read More ›
New York Times blocked by China after report on wealth of Wen Jiabao’s family
Authorities censor publication after revelations that the premier’s relatives have accumulated billions during his leadership Tania Branigan in Beijing guardian.co.uk, Friday 26 October 2012 05.43 EDT Reports are highly embarassing for China’s premier Wen Jiabao, who has urged officials not to… Read More ›
Hacking the President’s DNA : Personalized Bioweapons
The U.S. government is surreptitiously collecting the DNA of world leaders, and is reportedly protecting that of Barack Obama. Decoded, these genetic blueprints could provide compromising information. In the not-too-distant future, they may provide something more as well—the basis for… Read More ›
Anonymous vows revenge after WikiLeaks launches ‘filthy’ paywall
By Stephen C. Webster Friday, October 12, 2012 10:13 EDT Topics: Anonymous ♦ julian assange ♦ Wikileaks Nameless hackers with the online protest movement “Anonymous” have turned on longtime ally WikiLeaks for deploying a paywall on its website that blocks… Read More ›
Swedish Internet sites unreachable after warning from Anonymous
By Agence France-Presse Friday, October 5, 2012 20:00 EDT Topics: swedish authorities ♦ Swedish Central Bank ♦ Swedish government Several Swedish government websites could not be accessed Friday after they had received a warning the evening before from a group… Read More ›
U.S. Government wreckless use of TrapWire May have Compromised highly sensitive private information on Millions of Citizens
*Engineering Evil: Article Needs 2nd Source Confirmation Secretive TrapWire company’s affiliations revealed Published: 20 September, 2012, 02:27 Edited: 20 September, 2012, 06:34 Just discovered documentation concerning the TrapWire secret surveillance system suggests that the San Diego-based Cubic Corporation did… Read More ›
U.S. ‘withheld’ emails on WikiLeaks suspect Bradley Manning: defense
By Agence France-Presse Tuesday, August 28, 2012 21:53 EDT FORT MEADE, Maryland — Lawyers for the US soldier on trial for passing a trove of classified documents to WikiLeaks on Tuesday accused the government of withholding emails about his pre-trial… Read More ›
Site appeals against court request to hand over details of tweets relating to Occupy activist charged with disorderly conduct
By Dominic Rushe, The Guardian Monday, August 27, 2012 16:19 EDT Twitter has lodged an appeal against a New York judge’s decision that it must hand over detailed information related to an Occupy Wall Street protester charged with disorderly conduct…. Read More ›
Photo accidentally reveals UK determination to give Assange no way out
By Robert Booth, The Guardian Friday, August 24, 2012 19:19 EDT It is the “restricted” official document that sums up the Metropolitan police’s tactics towards Julian Assange. “Action required: Assange to be arrested under all circumstances,” says the handwritten note… Read More ›
Cities use surveillance systems that identify potential ‘terrorists’ with facial recognition (U.S.)
By Charles Arthur, The Guardian Monday, August 13, 2012 15:17 EDT It sounds like something from the film Minority Report: a CCTV surveillance system that recognises people from their face or walk and analyses whether they might be about to… Read More ›