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https://twitter.com/rik_ferguson/status/567283340970295296


https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/565157061512949760

http://www.wired.com/2015/02/nsa-acknowledges-feared-iran-learns-us-cyberattacks/


Detailed tech report-- https://firstlook.org/theintercept/document/2015/02/10/iran-current-topics-interaction-gchq/

http://www.trendmicro.co.uk/media/wp/operation-arid-viper-whitepaper-en.pdf

FBI’s most wanted cyber criminal arrested in Pakistan

http://www.bgr.in/news/fbis-most-wanted-cyber-criminal-arrested-in-pakistan/


Also finfisher use by Bahrain against exiled democracy activist

http://www.theverge.com/2015/1/21/7861645/finfisher-spyware-let-bahrain-government-hack-political-activist

Hackers steal $1bn in series of online bank thefts says report

Collating all resources

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/feb/16/hackers-steal-1bn-in-online-bank-thefts-says-report?CMP=share_btn_tw   <--- p="" report="">


Technical details whitepapers

http://www.group-ib.com/files/Anunak_APT_against_financial_institutions.pdf

https://www.fox-it.com/en/press-releases/anunak-aka-carbanak-update

https://threatpost.com/carbanak-ring-steals-1-billion-from-banks/111054


There is also the economic warfare & cyber weapons angle, as with fin fisher use to spy by Bahrain on its dissidents recently. Fin fisher is a military grade malware to spy realtime on people, it could listen to your smartphone's mic even when turned off!

Category 5 – Part 2 – "Information Security" of  The Wassenaar Arrangement (full name: The Wassenaar Arrangement on Export Controls for Conventional Arms and Dual-Use Goods and Technologies) is a multilateral export control regime(MECR) with 41 participating states including many former COMECON (Warsaw Pact) countries.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wassenaar_Arrangement  



Acknowledge thanks to  https://twitter.com/thisisdebasish who posted all this interesting stuff in details & its connection to Wassenaar Arrangement/ Treaty.

Indians need to get out of ideology and isms

Indians need to get out of isms- especially the socialist-capitalist discourse. Follow if you must 1 ism- realism. Russia today is increasingly capitalist, has been imperialist always. US has Obamacare.

A  chart of reality

Communist              Socialist                                                                        Capitalist
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|                                       |                                                                                                        |           Cuba                                         Russia        China                          US           Korea, Japan




US could have cosied up to India after 1962 China war. But later during late 1960s & 1970s US and China were courting so India was the third partner in the love triangle. I am no Nehru fan but lets not commit same mistake as him- Chinese are our socialist "brothers". The Swadeshi Jagran Manch for example wants local manufacturing but not an LED is made in India. Invest in manufacturing at least if not R&D.

Moreover Pakistan was the suitable boy (stooge) for big brother Uncle Sam. India didn't want to get into cold world conflict but was eventually drawn in when US sent its 7th fleet to aid Pakistan in 1970s,

Last but not the least lets not listen to the victims narratives. The 70s politicians suffered at Indira Gandhi's hands but for all her faults she was a hardcore nationalist. Lets not get into Indiara as CIA-KGB stooge conspiracy theories floated by Swamy & the like.












Points:Nehru
China--- US 1962
71 Pakistan
Pakistan suitable boy for US stooge
military alliance

political parties in India

nehruvian....


conspiracy theories
swamy
cia kgb

need to take 70s  politicians comments with pinch of salt as they r victims

Communists/Socialists In India

My 2 aanna on AIB Roast

AIB has indeed pushed the envelop (crossed boundaries ) & I mean in all interpretations by way of wordplay pun. They have pushed the envelope the same way we remember the scene from Bollywood movies where a babu is bribed under the table in an envelope filled with a wad of cash.

I have no qualms in accepting I enjoyed the roast. Why shouldn’t I admit it? Many of the jokes were the ones we used to make in our hostel corridors about Karan Johar for example. And its been a win-win situation for all involved. I wouldn’t delve into the “alleged” hypocrisy of certain celebs. Karan Johar has for far too long been associated with “class” films not “mass” ones. He probably wants a piece of the pie that Salman Khan & Akshay Kumar have. And what better time than a time when Kapil Sharma is a household favourite. Even if a 5 year old goes around showing the babiji ka thullu to everyone he picked on his show.

Earlier “family audiences” didn’t watch movies that had an expletive/abuse word like harami e.g. Today such qualms don’t exist as evident from recent Salman Khan, SRK movies. “Elitists” might reject it as “crass” but you know what- it sells! Karan Johar & YRF would get to push the envelop to move into the mass market as just NRI collections aren’t big enough anymore. After all how many times can you remake DDLJ in an year? I think I’ve seen it atleast 5 times each year ending with Humpty Sharma! Yaar ek hi script ko kitni baar beche?! Ab to audience bhi pak chuki hai :P

The bad boy image might make Ranveer Singh into Ranbir Kapoor & Arjun Kapoor wouldn’t have to play Chetan Bhagat again. Win-win situation for all. Classic American. J

Also AIB became a national discussion. I found people discussing AIB in eateries who hadn’t heard of it before. AIB found its mass audience outside the internet thanks to the mainstream media discussing them. Everyone asked 1 question- ye AIB kya hai? Kaun hai?

I won’t get into the debate of morality for fear of being labelled a sangha, tough I am! Par is desh me 3 cheez bikti hai- entertainment, entertainment aur entertainment. Aur AIB entertainment hai.

P.S: Bahut gareeb aadmi hun. Please don’t file an FIR on me

Aveek Sen

@aveeksen

Illegal Internet Market Shut Down

Last November, a website popularly known as Silk Road 2.0 ( https://silkroad6ownowfk.onion) on the “dark web”  of was taken down & its alleged online administrator Blake Benthall(@blakeeb on twitter), a software developer, arrested ( as in, its servers seized) as part of operation Onymous in a joint operation between 16 member nations of Europol, the FBI, and US Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

“Dark web” is a part of “deep web”. The sites we browse are a small fraction of the internet- there’s below the surface something atleast 4000-5000 times larger- the deep web. This part of the internet is not indexed by search engines, i.e. you cannot find them through a simple Google search. These may be sites that don’t want its content showing up on search engines through various methods. They may also be used for personal records, archives, secret communications & at times ven crime.

They can only be searched through special search engines like Deep Peep, still not displaying meaningful content. Most such websites would open up only when certain strings are passed to them & a dynamic website would load then. Certain among them have .onion suffixes that cannot be opened directly & can be accessed via VPNs or TOR.

TOR, short for The Onion Router, was originally designed to bypass surveillance & censorship & is used widely by activists to protect their privacy. However you could also access deep web websites using it.

Now, the dark web is that part of the deep web that is mostly used for criminal activities- sale of illegal arms, drugs, stolen credit card information, etc. Some such popular sites are Evolution & Agora. There was a Silk road that was taken down sometime back. Very soon Silk Road 2.0 came up. Before being taken down, Silk Road 2 was estimated to be selling $8 million/month worth of illicit goods with more than 150,000 active users. For a comparative idea, flipkart recently crossed the $3 billion/year. That would make it a bigger marketplace than flipkart, that too working in illegal sales alone. And it had been around for just an year!

An undercover Homeland Security agent was put in Silk Road 2.0′s and work his way up. Through that operation, the agent said he was able to interact directly with Defcon, code name for Blake. This will be pretty damning for Blake in his hearings as then tracing bitcoin transactions Silk Road 2 accepted payments in would be irrelevant.

There’s already a Silk Road 3.0(http://reloadedudjtjvxr.onion/login.php) accessible only through TOR & the like) though & Evolution and Agora which have always been more popular exist. Also certain criminals are using Open Bazaar, listing their products as legal ones but selling them in code names, the way drugs are sold in the offline market.