Monday, February 16, 2015

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.

Thursday, February 12, 2015

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
_________________________________________________________________________________
|                                       |                                                                                                        |           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

Tuesday, February 10, 2015

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