'apocalypse'; Cost of doing biz

PSA:

White House official:
Cyber attacks are risk of doing Business.

( DOING BUSINESS DURING THE apocalypse MAYBE )

MY COMMENTS IN CAPS FOR EASE OF UNDERSTANDING, G

BY JOSH SMITH, NATIONAL JOURNAL 04/27/2011

The White House official tasked with coordinating the country's response to cyber threats said Wednesday that the risk of such attacks is often overblown.

Howard Schmidt, the White House cybersecurity coordinator, told National Journal that a few sensational events make the overall cyber threat seem worse than it really is.

Like CORNFLIKER, STUXNET?

like:

1945 JAPAN GOVERNMENT: A FEW SENSATIONAL EVENTS, EXPLOSIONS.

"It's still a situation where specific incidents make it something it's not," he said. "Things make headlines that are just the risk of doing business in many cases."

HE CLEARLY DOES NOT UNDERSTAND THE SCOPE, DEPTH AND BREADTH OF THE STUXNET

ATTACK. WHAT IS HE DOING AT THIS JOB? HE WITNESSED A NEW WMD, AND DIDN'T NOTICE.
Internet Anthropologist Think Tank: Stuxnet 3.0 most powerful ...

On Tuesday, Sony announced that hackers stole reams of personal information on 77 million Playstation Network accounts. Last month the Epsilon marketing company lost information on 250 million people to a cyber attack.

But, Schmidt said, compared to other, more traditional crimes, attacks in cyberspace remain rare. He said there had been some successes, although he gave no details.

OUT OUT, CRIME IN CYBERSPACE ISN'T RARE, ITS ENDEMIC. 

ID THEFT WHAT EVERY 8 SECONDS, UNREPORTED CRIME, CRIME ON THE INTERNET

ISN'T RARE, ITS PERSISTENT AND RISING.

Cyber attacks growing in number and sophistication
Few victims realise they are under attack until it is too late. It is increasingly common to hear of attackers remaining inside a compromised organisation for months, gathering information with which they design and build even more sophisticated attacks," TippingPoint said.

Read more http://www.v3.co.uk/v3/news/2269980/firms-open-range-security

That being said, Schmidt added, the relatively low risk doesn't mean the problem should be ignored.

"RELATIVELY LOW RISK"???

AT THIS TIME IN INTERNET HISTORY, SECURITY HAS NEVER BEEN WORSE AND HIGHER

RISK. STUXNET IN A MULTIPLE WAR HEAD APPROACH, CAN TAKE OUT AN ENTIRE

INFRA-STRUCTURE, OF AN ENTIRE COUNTRY, ELECT, COMMUNICATIONS, CELL PH, CABLE,

TV. RADIO, WATER, GAS, BANKS.

AND MANY ARE TRYING TO REVERSE ENGINEER.

IT LIKE THE NUKES, SOON SOME ONE ELSE IS GOING TO HAVE ONE.

Despite concerns by some analysts that the White House cybersecurity office lacks the authority or resources needed to do the job, Schmidt said he has been given everything he needs and is meeting provisions in the Cyberspace Policy Review, among other goals.

I THINK HE BELIEVES WHAT HE SAID.

THERE ARE MORE KINDS OF AND NUMBER OF ATTACKS, EXPLOITS NOW

THEN AT ANY OTHER TIME IN HISTORY.

THERE IS NO SECURITY ON THE www.
Internet Anthropologist Think Tank: Security:hyper endemic Epidemic:

NSA CONFIRMS IT.

Internet Anthropologist Think Tank: I'm on your PC,know your IP

While "the government has to do what it can to secure our own systems," Schmidt said, the broader effort to secure networks and information must be managed by both the government and industry.

"It's all government, all private sector," he said. "It's what we refer to as a shared responsibility."

TRANSLATION: "WE ARE PASSING THE BUCK"

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SOURCE:

http://www.nextgov.com/nextgov/ng_20110427_6375.php

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Paradigm Intel has alternate reasoning:

Howard Schmidt is THE authority, "the White House cybersecurity coordinator", HAS seen it all,

and US is generations ahead in Cyber of everyone else.

I'M BETTING AGAINST HIM,

WE ARE FACING WMD THREAT ON THE WWW.

THE THREAT IS REAL, AND WE HAVE SEE PROOFS

OF CONCEPT ON THE WEB ALREADY.

THERE ISN'T EVEN A SECURE OPERATING SYSTEM

IN THE WORLD YET. 

HELL THERE ISN'T EVEN A SECURE BROWSER YET.

IRANS JUNK WASN'T EVEN HOOKED

UP TO THE WWW, AND THEY GOT   H I T.

Cyber attacks are risk of doing Business.

AND ENDING IN A apocalypse.

Geraldanthro GeraldAnthro 

#Intercept Iran regime: "IRCG Commander General "enemy of cyberspace Via software tools:tapping the country's infrastructure"

Gerald

War Anthropologist

Tactical Internet Systems analyst.

Folow up:
http://warintel.blogspot.com/2011/05/h-clinton-confused-on-cyber-security.html
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Serendipity, PUSH ON

Gerald:4 of my hats

 Floor of NYSE, me center.

Anthropologist

Mil.

Me and President Ford

Missions, operations and goal achievement.

I've been on "jobs" for lack of a better word,

when we went way beyond our supply lines

and support systems, were on our own, ALONE.

It happens when serendipity strikes,

and instead of making it to level 3,

your very difficult target, you battle

so hard, effectively when you look

up your on level 7.

And the thing most do 

is stay put and consolidate the victory.
Bask.

But finding your self beyond the goal

beyond all expectations, you continue

to push on. And thats when you get beyond

support systems, and in the zone.

Of course there are strategic considerations,

you wouldn't do this if you were on a battle line,

too much risk of friendly fire. Or flanking.

Or if your assignment was to retrieve some data,

or person.

But there are cases where its good.

Recon or Cell Penetration or finding a backdoor.

In both the Meat and cyber worlds.

Where you have the foresight to NOT to

stop with the current victory and push on to
see how far you can go.

If you push this paradigm to its limits it can

become a zero error game.

And zero error games can be successfully played.

But if you discover your in a zero error game to

late, your finished.

A real Zero Error game has the effect of enormous

focused concentration.

And there is an addictive flavor to it, an adrenalin rush

to it.

One of the zero error games I've played was a Knife

fight in Morocco, I spent the night at the Embassy.
1980's.

My second swipe of the blade I realized I was in a

ZERO ERROR game. I lost some skin off a finger.

I quit swinging for his fingers and went after his

torso. To Cut him OPEN. 

But you have the flavor now.

Marines do it all the time.

Kill an ambush and go on looking

for another one.

There is that type, flavor of games

on the WWW and in the meat world,

on the strategic level.

It is rewarding and disappointing

when sometimes the proof of success  
is someone disappears from the Internet, 
your left wanting more.

Some times you end out there so far,

your boss calls you a liar,

till you show him the product/proofs.

At points your adrenalin is being pumped

by an oil well, and you have to appear,

present as if everything were normal.

Other times you make it to the top goal,
way above your objective 

and find your self not quite prepared.

You reached the summit, and find a formal

dance party in progress, and of course

your wearing mountain climbing gear.

And somebody is asking if you'd like

to do some push ups.

AND YOU JUST DONT WANA.
You've just climbed a mountain,
bypassing base camp, and somebody
is faulting your operational persona
for not wearing formal attire. 
Irritating and exhilarating; both.

The loss of physical strength, fatigue.

is much easier to deal with than

Mental fatigue. I've worked 48 hr days.
Its hard, bounce back slow.

I find if I keep my reward commensurate

to or in excess of accomplishment I last

a lot longer, less trouble with burn out.

Has to be some form of fun, even if twisted.

I think arguing the Koran with a terrorist fun.

I love tracking someone down for a month,

and using every exploit, advantage, technology,

mole I have access to. Thats fun.


There have been two times in my life that
the pressure was so immense and prolonged
I thought I might break, I didn't, but I did crack.
And had to take some time off, to regroup,
refocus and come down before continuing.
Each time its gotten easier and feel less like
breaking and takes more pressure to interrupt
actions. In each of the two cases its gotten 
easier.

But I feel like I've screwed up when I reach

the peak and find I'm wearing mountain equipment

to a formal.

But theres just no telling where the 'end game' WILL

end. Sometimes your just glad you have an end game.

Some times its like dominoes other times its like

mole hunting.

And strange as it sounds, I have no idea what blog 

post/Intel is going to get maximum hits. 

Some of the Intel I think is just Genius, gets panned.
Thats disappointing.

Some of the Intel I throw in at the last min. gets 70%

of the hits. Thats disappointing too.

Recent hot news sometimes gets the hits and
some times doesn't.

We have had operations where a blog post was written

for one person, some one that didn't even know who we

were, but we knew who they were.

We just needed to deliver a message without them knowing
they were reading a message.

And some posts are written for a specific audience,
some are PSA's, we don't write for hits.  
But the reading audience is a weapon.

Some posts are part of an operation, but all true.

I love comments, some comments have deserved

their own post and I did. And I OK all comments

unless they are spam.

Fun Part of the job are the toys.

Hard part of the job are the toys.

The paranoia you get used to.

And you actually can get used to

waiting. That came as a surprise.

I wanted to share with readers what some of this

work is like from the inside sometimes, subject to OPsec.

Hope it made sense.

Gerald

Anthropologist

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OK the #Bernacke is a Genius.

I don't like it either.

I've been ragging on the Bernacke, about QE2.


I was right about what they were doing,
but missed what was going on.


The Bernacke knew what had to be done,
saw the Republicans were trying to get into
a pissing match with the Democrats,
and would get NO quick resolution on the
deficit problem.


He fixed it.
mea culpa
mea culpa




During this recession/depression the
economy needed low interest rates
to provide liquidity and nutriment, lots
of cash, for economic growth.
Flood the Banks with money,
Fed Window lends to them at just
under 1%, unlimited borrowing.


Congress and President were not
going to get deficit fixed.
That would have kept interest rates
low. Lowered risk/lower yield.

So the Bernacke kept the interest rates
low by buying up US Treasury Bonds,
Debt, Federal Reserve is now bigger
holder of US Bonds than China.


If he bought the bonds they would not
have to raise interest rates higher in order
to other countries buy those T Bonds.


The Bernacke did what he knew the politicians
and elected officials would screw up.
He kept interest rates low during a Recession.
Federal Reserve is going to get hurt,
losses from these purchases,
but I thank you for helping during a
heavy economic decline with one
thing that really made a difference.
Kept Interest rates LOW.


mea Maxia culpa.






Gerald
Series 7 , 13
Anthropologist.

Scary Fiction: New War Domain

Grapic Warning 

Thought WARNING

This isn't true, it is FACTUAL.
Part of our analysis is what scares you, me.
Now lets take that to a worst case level.
And explore that paradigm.
That is what your going to see now.

One of the pluses to a artificial Intelligence
is it never says,"well thats just stupid" and ignore
it, if it tracks its reported.

Do I believe it, I don't know.
Its accurate, and the paradigm plays.
BUT ITS SO FAR OUT THERE.

LOOK:

Supreme court says foreign Governments
can form corporations and give unlimited
amounts of $$$ into the American election
process.

Enemy Government xyz forms corp X Bank
( or private entity instead of Gov. ).
Funnels billions of dollars in to corp X Bank
to influence US elections and LAWS.

Corp X buys Lobbyists.
Funds sock puppet,
stirs up 1/2% of US pop
to go active on key items.
Call them the "Coffee Party"
They are your dogs.
Turn them loose, guaranteed to
get massive press coverage.
Use them.

The going price for a US Congressmen
is around $3 million dollars.
And NO Law has been broken.
Buying Congressmen is legal,
Unlimited contributions/Bribes.

Now to destroy the country.
What you gonna do?
What you gonna do?

Lets see take out their social security nets.
Destroy US from with in,
Kill Social Security.
Kill Medicare Medicaid

Put the US Military on a leash.
Cut their Budgets.

Pass a law to let Government remove
elected officials.
MI

Pass laws to Kill Unions.
WI

Legalize Usury:
Let the criminals thrive.
640 % interest, payday loans
30 % on credit cards.
The corporations will Bleed
the Americans.

Protect the Wall St Banks
they are criminals and will
do another kind of sub-Prime
scam again, the Wall St Banks
crippled the worlds economies,
killed employment in US, millions
lost their homes.

They are very powerful they
single handed almost borough down
the whole worlds economies.
Protect the Wall St Banks at all
costs, our biggest asset.

OK NIGHTMARE ENDS.

We looked at what scared me,
and ran that out in the worst case
paradigm we could come up with.
But it is ALL accurate.

Those things could be done.

Would any one see it coming?
Is anyone even looking?
What jurisdiction?
Nothing illegal was done.


Hell what DOMAIN?

This is the stuff we get from the Social Change Engine SCE
paradigm Intel, OSINT, BSUs.

Not fun but always interesting.

Decision tree:
Now is this worth checking out?
Is this something we can have an Impact on?
Time frame.
Resources?
run some ESORE forecasts.
Impact?


Thats why I Love/Hate this job.
Challenges never end.
Chance to have impact.
No LEARNING CURVE. Straight 45 degrees.
Frontier stuff.

We are the Beaver hunters of the 1700's
but to the 2030.


Gerald
War Anthropologist

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" #STARS ", #Stuxnet 3.0 has crippled Iran

Virus "STARS" hits Iran

Iran hit by another worm/virus/rootkit/secretGizmoes
SOURCE:
http://blogs.mcafee.com/enterprise/system-endpoint/is-a-new-virus-hitting-in-iran/comment-page-1#comment-139267

Vortex , doctor Gholamreza Jalali, on malware "Astars" the scientists identified it. "Fortunately, our young scientists were able to discover the virus and Presented to the lab, but still working on it continues and final results not in. "executable files may sometimes be mistaken for government agencies" 
 "does not mean the threat has been entirely resolved" 
Iran has discovered a new hostile computer virus designed to damage government systems.
“Fortunately, our scientists have successfully identified the Stars virus, which has now been sent to laboratories,”
Mr. Jalali said that the threat from Stuxnet had not yet been completely dispelled, and cautioned that further attacks were anticipated.



Intercepts:
Point to Irans acknowledgement of defeat.

Its so BAD Iran is not even talking about
what it did.

Our intercepts picked up:
Tweeted:

Geraldanthro GeraldAnthro 

#Intercept Iran regime:IRCG:"enemy has a lot invested in Cyber.We must be prepared to lose the deal with this aggression. " Accurate quote,G

24 Apr

Paradigm Intel, BSU's and Intercepts:

( https://twitter.com/#!/search?q=%23Intercept )

WHAT HIT THEM?

Stars: Stuxnet 3.0

http://warintel.blogspot.com/2010/10/stuxnet-30-most-powerful-weapon-ever.html 

We wrote about it on 10.17.10

Click link above.

Three notable items,
One the defeat announcement by IRCG
Second
The secret nature of the damage.
Third
This is round #2
Confidence is high, and they will push limits,
technology, and strategy.

This is gona hurt Iran Regime.
We are witnessing real cyber war.
Fought in new domain, no boots on ground,
no injured, surgical strike, persistent, potential
kinetic strike, etc.
Its a different kind of warfare.
Enemy Counterstrike potentially illegal.

Can't validate attackers ID.
OUT OF THE BOX OPTIONS DEPLOYED.
Using new stealth attack paradigm.
OPSEC: will discuss when/if story breaks.

Paradigm Intel:
Our paradigm intel suggests Iran was just checkmated.
However not sure on what level.
Just the nuclear development capability,

The Stuxnet first strike was measured, mild,
and non-violent, no one was killed and surgical.
Its persistent, cloaked, Artificially Intelligence enhanced,
programed self-defense.

It killed no one, influenced only non-lethal sub-systems,
to stop nuclear program development.

Now what is strike two?
They could have terminated all electrical power in Iran.
Tilt targeted banking balances to ZERO.
Shut down Iranian cooling systems, causing a Japan
type Nuclear melt down.
Make Military stuff go BOOM, self destruct explosions.

The new stuff has some double blind paradigms
operations.

Stars; we think will target only regime infra-structure,
leaving civilian infra-structure standing.

Blocks the regime, somehow, working
on details, full picture.

Geraldanthro GeraldAnthro 

#Intercept Iran regime: "IRCG Commander General "enemy of cyberspace Via software tools:tapping the country's infrastructure"

The silence is deafening.
   

Internet Anthropologist Think Tank: 

Smoking Gun, Stuxnet architect.

Gerald

War Anthropologist

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UPDATE:

Our BSU intercepts also picked up:

IATT #intercept: Iran regime: فردای نخستین آزمایش هسته‌ای ایران، یک روز معمولی "Tomorrow's first nuclear test, a regular day"

It turned out they were talking about what world press says.

Irans bomb test near.

And press has been setting dates for the first nuke test for years.

And then they said :

"Tomorrow's first nuclear test, a regular day"

The BSU was nuanced enough to read it as important.
But not nuanced enough to pick it out as humor.


NOT A VALID THREAT, G
Because of HV dated content, we blew the WHISTLE.G