Anonops #8: Occupy Wall Str.

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Vikram S Pandit D0x (CitiGroup)

During Occupy Wall street, protesters had made way to CitiBank to withdraw their funds and close their accounts. They were met with strong police prescence and arrested. We as american citizens MUST have full control over our money and lively hood. When this is taken away from us, what else do we have? So the CEO of CitiBank has blindly jumped into the sights of the CabinCr3w…

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Vikram S Pandit

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D.O.B: 14 January 1957 (age 54)

Cell Phone: 646-512-4269 (Possibly Cancelled)

Office: (212) 793-1201

E-mail: vikram.pandit@citi.com

CEO of Citigroup

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Wife: Swati

Children: 2

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Alma mater: Columbia University

New York City

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-GREENWICH ADDRESS:

144 Pecksland Rd

Greenwich, CT

(203) 661-1214

Single Family Residence, 5 Bed, 7.50 Bath, 5105 Sq. Ft

SOLD FOR $3,400,000 IN 1999

Cost Per Sqft of home: $666/sqft (lulz)

-NY ADDRESS:

310 E 53rd St, Apt 29A

New York, NY 10022-5246

(ADDRESSES “VERIFIED” BY http://www.contact-the-ceo.com/page1.html)

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Pellegrini v. Citigroup Inc. et al

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Plaintiff:Beverly Pellegrini

Defendants:Citigroup Inc., Win Bischoff, Vikram S. Pandit, Gary L. Crittenden, Charles O. Prince, III, John C. Gerspach, Sallie L. Krawcheck, C. Michael Armstrong, Alain J.P. Belda, George David, Richard D. Parsons, Kenneth T. Derr, John M. Deutch, Andrew N. Liveris, Roberto Hernandez Ramirez, Ann Dibble Jordan, Klaus Kleinfeld, Anne M. Mulcahy, Judith Rodin, Sanford I. Weill, Robert E. Rubin, Franklin A. Thomas, Saul Rosen, Citigroup Global Markets Inc., Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated, Morgan Stanley & Co. Incorporated, UBS Securities LLC, Wachovia Capital Markets, LLC, Banc of America Securities LLC, RBC Capital Markets Corp., Deutsche Bank & Securities Inc., Goldman, Sachs & Co., Barclays Capital Inc., Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC, Wells Fargo Securities, LLC and KPMG, LLP

Case Number:1:2009cv03669

Filed:April 9, 2009

Court:New York Southern District Court

Office:Foley Square

Office County:XX Out of State

Presiding Judge:Judge Sidney H. Stein

Nature of Suit:Other Statutes - Securities/Commodities/ExchangesCause:15:77 Securities Fraud

Jurisdiction:Federal QuestionJury Demanded By:Plaintiff

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Asher et al v. CitiGroup, Inc. et al

Plaintiffs: Lionel Asher and Mary J. Asher

Defendants: CitiGroup, Inc., Charles O. Prince, III, Sallie L. Krawcheck, John C. Gerspach, Sanford I. Weill, Michael Armstrong, Alain J.P. Belda, George David, Kenneth T. Derr, John M. Deutch, Roberto Hernandez Ramirez, Ann Dibble Jordan, Klaus Kleinfield, Andrew N. Liveris, Dudley C. Mecum, Anne M. Mulchahy, Richard D. Parsons, Judith Rodin, Robert E. Rubin, Franklin A. Thomas, Rosen Saul, Win Bischoff, Vikram S. Pandit, Gary L. Crittenden, Citigroup Global Markets Inc., Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated, Morgan Stanley & Co. Incorporated, UBS Securities LLC, Wachovia Capital Markets, LLC, Banc of America Securities, LLC, RBC Capital Markets Corporation and KPMG LLP

Case Number:1:2009cv04485

Filed:May 11, 2009

Court:New York Southern District Court

Office:Foley Square Office

County:NewYorkPresiding

Judge:Judge Sidney H. SteinPresiding

Judge:Judge Unassigned

Nature of Suit:Other Statutes - Securities/Commodities/Exchanges

Cause:15:77 Securities Fraud

Jurisdiction:Federal Question

Jury Demanded By:Plaintiff

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Riddle v. Citigroup et al

Plaintiff:Beverly A. Riddle

Defendants: Citigroup, Citibank NA, Citi, Joseph Bonelli, Beth McCahey, Alison Levy, Marcie Mintz, Jeff Holbrook, Sarah Lashen, Sherrie Bachtler, Karen Segal, Helen O’Hehir, Lisa Coen, Steve Randich, Ed Zobitz, Chuck Prince, Pat Finn, Vikram Pandit, Members of the Citigroup Board of Directors, Jane Doe(s) and John Doe(s)

Case Number:1:2009cv05805Filed:June 24, 2009

Court:New York Southern District Court

Office:Foley Square Office

County:NewYork

Presiding Judge:Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein

Nature of Suit:Civil Rights - Employment

Cause:42:2000e Job Discrimination (Employment)Jurisdiction:Federal Question

Jury Demanded By:Plaintiff

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DeBerry et al v. GMAC Mortgage LLC et al

Plaintiffs:Willie Joe DeBerry, Joyce DeBerry and Shayla DeBerry Allen

Defendants:GMAC Mortgage LLC, Alvaro De Molina, Homecomings Financial LLC, Bruce Paradis, Citimortgage Inc and Vikram Pandit

Case Number:7:2009cv00107

Filed:August 28, 2009

Court:Georgia Middle District Court

Office:Valdosta Office

County:Cook

Presiding Judge:Judge Hugh Lawson

Nature of Suit:Torts - Property - Truth in Lending

Cause:15:1601 Truth in Lending

Jurisdiction:Federal QuestionJury Demanded By:None

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Plus Many More:

Two pages of legal action:

http://dockets.justia.com/search?query=vikram+pandit

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Detailed Financial information:

http://bit.ly/rqChzu

Article:

http://people.forbes.com/profile/vikram-s-pandit/19716

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Op maandag 17 oktober 2011 19:32 schreef ATOMIC_FUUU het volgende:

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Triest dat ze die man persoonlijk willen/gaan pakken. Ik snap dat die hele commotie in Amerika (en inmiddels in andere landen) frustratie opwerkt, maar dit vind ik te ver gaan.

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From a single hashtag, a protest circled the world

(Reuters) - It all started innocuously enough with a July 13 blog post urging people to #OccupyWallStreet, as though such a thing (Twitter hashtag and all) were possible.

It turns out, with enough momentum and a keen sense of how to use social media, it actually is.

The Occupy movement, decentralized and leaderless, has mobilized thousands of people around the world almost exclusively via the Internet. To a large degree through Twitter, and also with platforms like Facebook and Meetup, crowds have connected and gathered.

As with any movement, a spark is needed to start word spreading. SocialFlow, a social media marketing company, did an analysis for Reuters of the history of the Occupy hashtag on Twitter and the ways it spread and took root.

The first apparent mention was that July 13 blog post by activist group Adbusters (r.reuters.com/suc54s) but the idea was slow to get traction.

The next Twitter mention was on July 20 (r.reuters.com/tuc54s) from a Costa Rican film producer named Francisco Guerrero, linking to a blog post on a site called Wake Up from Your Slumber that reiterated the Adbusters call to action (r.reuters.com/vuc54s).

The site, founded in 2006 "to expose America's fraudulent monetary system and the evil of charging interest on money loaned," is a reference to the biblical verse Romans 13:11 that reads in part: "The hour has come for you to wake up from your slumber, because our salvation is nearer now than when we first believed."

Guerrero's post was retweeted once and then there was silence until two July 23 tweets -- one from the Spanish user Gurzbo (r.reuters.com/wuc54s) and one from a retired high school chemistry teacher in Long Island, New York named Cindy tweeting as gemswinc. (r.reuters.com/xuc54s)

Gurzbo's post was not passed along by anyone but Cindy's was, by eight people, including a Delaware-based opponent of the Federal Reserve, a vegan information rights supporter, a Washington-based environmentalist and an Alabama-based progressive blogger.

Again, there was relative silence for nearly two weeks, until LazyBookworm tweeted the Occupy hashtag again on August 5. (r.reuters.com/zuc54s) That got seven retweets, largely from a crowd of organic food supporters and poets.

HASHTAG REVOLT

The notion of Occupy Wall Street was out there but it was not gaining much attention -- until, of course, it did, suddenly and with force.

Social media experts trace the expansion to hyper-local tweeters, people who cover the pulse of communities at a level of detail not even local papers can match.

In New York, credit goes to the Twitter account of Newyorkist, whose more than 11,000 tweets chronicle the city in block-by-block detail. His was one of the first well-followed accounts to mention the protests in mid-September.

Trendistic, which tracks hashtag trends on Twitter, shows that OccupyWallStreet first showed up in any volume around 11 p.m. on September 16, the evening before the occupation of lower Manhattan's Zuccotti Park began. Within 24 hours, the tag represented nearly 1 of every 500 uses of a hashtag.

The first two weeks of the movement were slow, media coverage was slim and little happened beyond the taking of the concrete park itself. But then a demonstration on the Brooklyn Bridge prompted hundreds of arrests and the spark was ignited.

On October 1, #OccupyBoston started to show up on Twitter. Within a couple of weeks, #OccupyDenver and #OccupySD and others appeared.

The Occupy Wall Street page on Facebook started on September 19 with a YouTube video of the early protests. By September 22, it reached critical mass.

"Newcomers today, welcome! Feel free to post. Advertise your own pages of resistance. Network until it works," read one posting meant to inspire protests elsewhere.

For young activists around the world, who grew up with the Internet and the smartphone, Facebook and Twitter have become crucial in expanding the movement.

They are pioneering platforms like Vibe that lets people anonymously share text, photos and video over short distances for brief periods of time -- perfect for use at rallies.

"No one owns a (Twitter) hashtag, it has no leadership, it has no organization, it has no creed but it's quite appropriate to the architecture of the net. This is a distributed revolt," said Jeff Jarvis, a journalism professor at City University of New York and author of the well-known blog BuzzMachine.

Some reports say the protesters have raised as much as $300,000 in donations to cover everything from pizza to video equipment but others put the figure much lower.

The Alliance for Global Justice, which calls itself "the fiscal sponsor for Occupy Wall Street," has raised $23,200 via WePay.com.

OCCUPY EVERYWHERE

As of Monday afternoon, Facebook listed no fewer than 125 Occupy-related pages, from New York to Tulsa and all points in between. Roughly 1 in every 500 hashtags used on Twitter on Monday, all around the world, was the movement's own #OWS.

The websites keep proliferating -- We Are the 99 Percent, Parents for Occupy Wall Street and Occupy Together, even the parody Occupy Sesame Street (concerned mostly with the plight of monsters living in garbage cans).

Online streaming video has also been a huge resource for the protesters, using cheap cameras and high-speed wireless Internet access.

Supporters, opponents and the merely curious got the chance last Saturday to watch the Occupy Wall Street protesters decide whether to occupy a major public park, Washington Square Park, in the Greenwich Village area.

They saw warnings the police were about to arrive in riot gear and with horses, vans and buses to take away protesters if there were mass arrests. Local media reported about 10 arrests among the 3,000 or so people in the park.

As the seconds to a possible confrontation ticked down, the tension led to various reactions from those watching online.

"Anyone arrested is a political prisoner," said one.

"Here comes Czar Bloomberg's Cossacks," said another, in reference to New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg and the appearance of the mounted police.

There were "we are watching" messages of support from cities across the United States and some who found it the best entertainment going on a Saturday night.

"So much more exciting than a TV show" was one comment.

(Reporting by Ben Berkowitz; Additional reporting by Martin Howell and Anthony DeRosa in New York; Editing by John O'Callaghan)

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AnonymousIRC twitterde op maandag 10-10-2011 om 00:02:12 #Anonymous to @Telecomix. This is a emergency distress signal. Please activate all operatives and agents handling #Egypt. #OpEgypt reageer retweet

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Anonymous veröffentlicht DB-Dump von Pädophilen-Handelsseite

Das Internet-Kollektiv Anonymous veröffentlichte am heutigen Montag die gesamte Benutzer-Datenbank der Website "Lolita City", einer, wie die Hacktivisten schreiben, "Darknet-Handels-Seite für Pädos". Insgesamt wurden die Daten von knapp 1600 Personen - sowie Informationen über den Server-Standort des Forums - veröffentlicht. Die Aktion ist Teil der bekannten "Operation Antisec".

Der Datenbank-Dump enthält insgesamt 1589 Benutzernamen. Klarnamen oder Passwörter sind nicht enthalten. Anonymous zufolge wurden die Passwörter mit SHA512 gehasht und aus Sicherheitsgründen in einer separaten Datenbank hinterlegt. Neben den Foren-Benutzernamen und Informationen über die Aktivität der Benutzer finden sich aber deren Nicknames für die anonymen Kommunikationsnetze TorChat und TorPM.

Neben den Benutzer-Informationen veröffentlichen die Anons auch Informationen über den Server-Standort des Forums. Mit Hilfe verschiedener technischer Maßnahmen, bei denen Anonymous offenbar eine Reihe von Cluster-Servern einsetzte, kamen die Anons zu dem Schluss, dass "Lolita City" in den USA gehostet wird.

Einen interessanten Fund machten die Anons in der Datenbank: dort ist jemand mit dem Nickname "Th3J35t3r" ("The Jester") als Benutzer von Lolita City verzeichnet. Ob es sich allerdings tatsächlich um den berüchtigten Hacktivisten handelt, der durch Aktionen gegen WikiLeaks und Anonymous auffiel, ist nicht zu sagen. Womöglich verwendete schlichtweg jemand den selben Nickname - unter Umständen sogar mit dem Ziel, dem sonst unter diesem Nick auftretenden Hacktivisten zu schaden. Es dürfte jedenfalls interessant sein, auf eine Stellungnahme von "The Jester" zu diesem Thema zu warten.

Die Aktion wird von den teilnehmenden Anons als Teil der bekannten "Operation Antisec" sowie der speziell gegen Pädophile vorgehenden "Operation Darknet" bezeichnet. Die Hacktivisten kündigen an, bald noch gegen weitere Websites, auf denen Darstellungen von Kindesmissbrauch gehandelt werden, vorzugehen.

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Op dinsdag 18 oktober 2011 10:09 schreef Perrin het volgende:
Al gepost?

I AM NOT MOVING - Short Film - Occupy Wall Street

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The Real Role Of Anonymous In Occupy Wall Street

Anonymous has caught the attention of the media--and even Homeland Security--with its biggest contribution to Occupy Wall Street: hype. But, so far, the amorphous, leaderless hacktivist movement has disappointed anyone expecting full-on revolution from a Guy Fawkes-masked army or a massive cyber attack.

Anonymous does, however, have prominent members and often unites a large number of sympathizers. The gap between expectations and reality when it comes to Occupy Wall Street results from the disconnect between those dominant members and fringe elements who hit up the costume shop and start posting YouTube videos.

The story of how Anonymous and Occupy Wall Street intertwine dates back to February 2010, to the birth of "The 99 Percent Movement."

The notion of “the 99 percent” most likely started with journalist David DeGraw in his 2010 book, The Economic Elite vs. The People of the United States. “The harsh truth is that 99% of the US population no longer has political representation,” DeGraw writes. As a follow-up, he formed the 99 Percent Movement, a social network soliciting ideas for a platform of economic and legal reform.

In January 2011, the movement’s host site, AmpedStatus.com, was repeatedly taken down by unknown attackers. It was then that Anonymous hacktivists contacted DeGraw, offering to set up a more secure site. That grew into a collaboration called A99, which published a laundry list of demands in March. And on March 12, A99 announced Operation Empire State Rebellion (#OpESR) with the Arab-Spring-style demand of forcing a man from office--in this case, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke. On June 1, A99 hastily called for multi-city occupations on the 14th. (In New York, it would have taken the same spot, Zuccotti Park, that is home to the present occupation.) But the OpESR action was a flop. Just 16 people showed up in Manhattan, and similarly feeble numbers in 22 other cities.

Meanwhile, organizers at activist magazine Adbusters had been developing their own occupation idea since February, which crystallized in a July 13 call to action. “Adbusters has never communicated directly with Anonymous,” said senior editor Micah White in an email.

But Anonymous spread the word vigorously, using Twitter, blogs, Internet Relay Chat (or IRC, their preferred discussion forum) and eventually YouTube videos. A sometime hacktivist named Robert whom I met at the September 17 protest in New York said that he knew about the campaign just two hours after the Adbusters page went live.

“The geek aspect is most important in the early days of a movement,” said Joseph Menn, a Financial Times security correspondent and author of the book Fatal System Error. “Once you get mainstream coverage, it’s self-perpetuating.”

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An October 2nd YouTube video announces We declare our war against the New York Stock ExchangeOn October 10th, NYSE shall be erased from the Internet.

In reality, on the 10th, a short distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack slowed down the NYSE site for about a half hour and took it offline for a couple minutes.

If the site was down for two minutes, thats not much of a protest, said Josh Shaul, CTO of Application Security, Inc. and an expert in database vulnerabilities. It shows that the big guns of Anonymous certainly didnt come out for this event.

In fact, many prominent sites and Twitter accounts denounced it ahead of time, in part because the DDoS tools to be used are easy to trace back to the hacker. Many of our brothers and sisters have gone down in the fight for using such tactics, like the Wikileaks defendants who took down Visa, Paypal, and Mastercard [sic], said a communiqué. We do not want history to repeat itself, and are sincerely worried.

Some even claimed it was a troll--a hoax--designed to lure Anonymous members into breaking the law, possibly by a federal agent. I got an indication of that back on October 4 when not_me sent an email saying It's not coming through usual channels and they're convinced it's government.

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How Diaspora* Found Its Tiger Stripe in the Midst of a Paypal Fiasco

We want to update you on the whole PayPal fiasco. We have good news and bad news, but after the day we’ve all had, why don’t we start with the good news?

So the good news is… actually, the GREAT news is that Silicon Valley startup Stripe has come to the rescue to enable Diaspora* donations on its service instead of PayPal. So we’re back, baby!

When PayPal mysteriously and arbitrarily decided to freeze everyone’s donations, we reached out to various payment services. Stripe responded right away to our call for help and swung into action, helping us get our online donations capability back up and running in just a few hours. Think about it. In just a few hours, we got a whole new payment service installed. We ran two credit cards through the system, so it should be OK. You can check out their amazing new service at the Diaspora* Foundation’s donation page. Stripe is really cool and simple and works great. As you can imagine, we got the opportunity to spend a lot of time with them today, and like us, they are inspired by a social mission: to make it as easy as possible for, say, a Honduran and an Indonesian, not only to chat together, but also to have meaningful economic exchanges on the web. So we’re very excited to have the opportunity to work together.

Now, for the bad news… We had raised $45,000 in just a few days, and then PayPal froze our account. Even though we’ve complied with every PayPal request, including providing them with our certificate of incorporation, they still won’t give us an explanation for any of their moves. And it wasn’t buyer’s remorse: From the thousands of donations we received, we had only one complaint and refunded that person’s money immediately. PayPal just sent us an email saying “appeal denied,” where they announced that they would lock up the Diaspora* community’s donations for 180 days. Yes, you heard that right. PayPal gets to earn interest on all of our donations for 6 months, while we have to wait for PayPal to come up with a reason to justify their decision. And it seems that this is common practice for PayPal, as the case of Shelley Michaels, Steve Hudgell, independent developers, WikiLeaks, and so many others show. Obviously, PayPal’s behavior is unacceptable, which is why we have asked our lawyer to get involved.

Since we announced the news earlier today, hundreds of you have tweeted and emailed PayPal urging that they release the funds. To all of you, we say THANK YOU. Unfortunately, the fight continues. Please keep up the pressure! If we keep pressing PayPal and draw media attention to their decision, they will have to relent.

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Diaspora is an open-source and distributed community of social networks run by users that enables you to own your own personal data, control with whom you share, and discover cool stuff throughout the Web

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anonymouSabu twitterde op woensdag 19-10-2011 om 16:32:23 ATTN: Media: #OpPayPal is back for round two. On a new phase: awareness and account closings: credit unions. Prepaid ccs. Alts. Spread news. reageer retweet

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http://pastebin.com/88Lzs1XR

As promised here is the entire user database of the 1589 users active on Lolita City, an darknet trading site for pedos.

While we were not able to obtain the password credentials (they use an SHA512 hash separate database to secure their passwords), but we were able to determine the following info of the server location.

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Son of Stuxnet Found in the Wild on Systems in Europe

A little more than one year after the infrastructure-destroying Stuxnet worm was discovered on computer systems in Iran, a new piece of malware using some of the same techniques has been found infecting systems in Europe, according to researchers at security firm Symantec.

The new malware, dubbed “Duqu” [dü-kyü], contains parts that are nearly identical to Stuxnet and appears to have been written by the same authors behind Stuxnet, or at least by someone who had direct access to the Stuxnet source code, says Liam O Murchu. He’s one of the leading experts on Stuxnet who produced extensive analysis of that worm with two of his Symantec colleagues last year and has posted a paper detailing the Duqu analysis to date.

Duqu, like Stuxnet, masks itself as legitimate code using a driver file signed with a valid digital certificate. The certificate belongs to a company headquartered in Taipei, Taiwan, which Symantec has declined to identify. F-Secure, a security firm based in Finland, has identified the Taipei company as C-Media Electronics Incorporation. The certificate was set to expire on August 2, 2012, but authorities revoked it on Oct. 14, shortly after Symantec began examining the malware.

The new code does not self-replicate in order to spread itself — and is therefore not a worm. Nor does it contain a destructive payload to damage hardware in the way that Stuxnet did. Instead, it appears to be a precursor to a Stuxnet-like attack, designed to conduct reconnaissance on an unknown industrial control system and gather intelligence that can later be used to conduct a targeted attack.

“When we talked about Stuxnet before, we expected there was another component of Stuxnet we didn’t see that was gathering information about how a plant was laid out,” O Murchu says. “But we had never seen a component like that [in Stuxnet]. This may be that component.”

Although Duqu was created some time after Stuxnet, a component similar to it could have been used by Stuxnet’s attackers to gather intelligence for their payload.

Duqu appears to have been operative for at least a year. Based on the dates the binary files were compiled, Symantec says attacks using the malware may have been conducted as early as December 2010, about five months after Stuxnet was discovered, and about 18 months after Stuxnet was believed to have first been launched on computers in Iran.

“The real surprising thing for us is that these guys are still operating,” O Murchu says. “We thought these guys would be gone after all the publicity around Stuxnet. That’s clearly not the case. They’ve clearly been operating over the last year. It’s quite likely that the information they are gathering is going to be used for a new attack. We were just utterly shocked when we found this.”

Symantec received two variants of the malware on Oct. 14 from an unidentified research lab “with strong international connections.”

“Obviously this is a sensitive topic, and for whatever reason, they’ve decided at this point they don’t want to be identified,” O Murchu says, referring to earlier beliefs about Stuxnet had been created by a nation state with the aim of sabotaging Iran’s nuclear program.

Symantec received two variants of the malware, both of which had infected the same machine. Since then, O Murchu and his colleagues have found other samples on about 10 machines. The researchers found, after searching their own malware archive for similar files, that one of the variants was first captured by Symantec’s threat detection system on Sept. 1, 2011. Symantec has declined to name the countries where the malware was found, or to identify the specific industries infected, other than to say they are in the manufacturing and critical infrastructure sectors.

Although the vast majority of Stuxnet infections were based in Iran, O Murchu says the Duqu infections that have been discovered so far are not grouped in any geographical region. He said, however, that this could change if new infections are discovered.

The name given to the malware is based on a prefix “~DQ” that the malware uses in the names of files that it creates on an infected system. O Murchu says the malware uses five files. These include a dropper file that drops all of the components onto an infected system that the malware will need to do its work; a loader that places the files into memory when the computer starts; a remote access Trojan that serves as a backdoor on infected systems to siphon data from it; another loader that executes the Trojan; and a keystroke logger.

Like Stuxnet, Duqu uses a sophisticated and unique technique to hide its components in the memory of a machine, rather than on the hard drive, to avoid detection by anti-virus engines, and also tricks the system into loading files from memory instead of from hard disk. This technique was one of the first red flags Symantec had found in Stuxnet that indicated it was doing something beyond other types of malware they had seen before.

The malware is configured to run for 36 days, after which it automatically removes itself from an infected system.

O Murchu says they still have no idea how Duqu was delivered to infected systems. Stuxnet primarily used a zero-day vulnerability that allowed it to spread to systems via an infected USB stick.

“There’s an installer component [to Duqu] we haven’t seen,” O Murchu saus. “We don’t know if the installer is self-replicating. That’s a piece of the jigsaw that we’re missing right now.”

The variants are about 300 kilobytes in size — compared to Stuxnet’s 500 kb — and use a custom protocol to communicate between an infected system and a command-and-control server to siphon data from an infected machine and load new components onto it. According to O Murchu, the malware tries to disguise its malicious communication by appending it to a 100 x 100 pixel jpeg file. The appended data is encrypted, and the researchers are still analyzing the code to determine what the communication contains.

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Libel reform vows to slay anonymous trolls

Single complaint could take down a post

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A single complaint about an anonymous article or posting online could be enough to legally force a website to take it down – if new Parliamentary proposals on defamation get passed into law.

Measures against online anonymity are a key part of proposals published today in a committee report that will be debated when Parliament votes on changing the UK's defamation laws.

Though the draft Defamation bill mainly deals with traditional media and issues such as libel tourism, one of its expressed aims is to bring internet publishing and social media in line with the mainstream press.

"We agree that the internet cannot be exempt from the law of the land, and that the rule of law should apply to the fullest extent possible online," states paragraph 93 of the report.

The two core recommendations of the committee include a new "notice and take-down procedure", and "measures to encourage a change in culture in the way we view anonymous material that is user-generated, including via social media".

The notice and take-down procedure would mandate that, upon receiving a complaint, website editors would need to publish the complaint next to the original article. If the complainant wishes to push the matter further and get a take-down order, they can initiate a defamation action which would be cheaper and more streamlined than it currently is. It would involve both parties submitting a comment to a defamation judge who would then make a decision on the case.

This will apply to public parts of social media sites, such as Twitter, forums and public Facebook pages, as well as blogs and online publications. Mumsnet and TripAdvisor were both specifically named by the report. It will apply equally to sites that are moderated and sites that are not.

The scenario for anonymous postings – articles and presumably videos and sound tracks – is even tougher. If one complaint is received, the web editor or website hoster will have to take the post down, unless the writer or creator is willing to identify him/herself. Paragraph 125 states:

We recommend that any material written by an unidentified person should be taken down by the host or service provider upon receipt of complaint, unless the author promptly responds positively to a request to identify themselves, in which case a notice of complaint should be attached. If the internet service provider believes that there are significant reasons of public interest that justify publishing the unidentified material — for example, if a whistle-blower is the source — it should have the right to apply to a judge for an exemption from the take-down procedure and secure a "leave-up" order."

If the writer or creator does identifies him/herself, the dispute can then be taken to before a defamation judge, following the same notice and take-down procedure stated above.

One protection for anonymous writers is built into the bill – if there is an overriding public interest in publication, something that could protect whistle-blowers for example.

Acknowledging the practical limitations on what they recommend, including the time and expense of tracking down anonymous users, the committee expressed the hope that their new laws will change what they called the "Wild West" of online culture, making for a general shift over future years.

We expect, and wish to promote, a cultural shift towards a general recognition that unidentified postings are not to be treated as true, reliable or trustworthy. The desired outcome to be achieved — albeit not immediately — should be that they are ignored or not regarded as credible unless the author is willing to justify or defend what they have written by disclosing his or her identity.

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Terroristen attackieren Hans-Peter Uhl

(Berlin) Hans-Peter Uhl (CSU), die Internet-Koryphäe der CDU/CSU-Bundestagsfraktion, wurde heute Mittag Opfer eines terroristischen Angriffs.
Cyberkriminelle griffen heimtückisch und skrupellos die Homepage von Uhl an und ersetzten die Seite mit eigenen Kommentaren.

Ob die sich "Anonymous" nennenden Angreifer wirklich aus dem Umfeld dieser Hackergruppe kommen, oder die Urheber des Attentats eher dem Umfeld des Chaos Computer Club (CCC) oder der Piratenpartei zuzurechnen sind, steht noch nicht fest.
Hans-Peter (Erich) Uhl wurde gestern durch seine fulminante und dennoch humorvolle Rede zur Verteidigung des Bundestrojaners in ganz Deutschland weltberühmt.
Wann die Internetseite des in Bayern überaus populären Politikers wieder erreichbar sein wird, steht noch nicht fest.

Der Staatsschutz soll bereits die ersten Ermittlungen aufgenommen haben.

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"Herr Uhl, es ist etwas passiert"
"Wie? Was?"
"Ihre Homepage wurde gehackt. "
"Meine was?"
"Sie wissen schon: Internet. Und nun ist alles weg"
"Na endlich!"

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MEP proposes 'black box' PC monitoring system

Under the pretext of a plea for children to be better protected on the internet, MEP Tiziano Motti has proposed installing a black box on every computer in Europe, to monitor and record every little scrap of traffic.

"We politicians are often hypocrites," Motti told EuropaPortalen of his plan. "On the one hand, we say that pedophilia is terrible and that it must be fought. On the other hand we do not give police the necessary tools to combat it. With my suggestion we can stop the hypocrisy."

Motti's proposal is to use a technology developed by Italian hacker Fabio Ghioni dubbed 'Logbox' to record every scrap of traffic that originates from every computing device across the EU.

That's worth a second-glance: Motti isn't just suggesting that PCs and laptops need to be monitored, but nothing capable of being connected to the Internet. As a result, Logbox would be installed on smartphones, featurephones with WAP access, eReaders, Blu-ray players and even TVs.

Logbox sits quietly in the background, monitoring the traffic for violations - and alerting authorities if something untoward, such as an image of child abuse, is discovered. Any evidence gathered is encrypted and stored securely, waiting for the police to show up.

"It allows the honest citizens to anonymously register their activities on the internet in a comprehensive, secure and neutral manner that can not be abused," Motti's proposal explains. "So, users can clearly demonstrate that they have not committed criminal acts so that the police do not waste time on the innocent in their investigations."

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Other MEPs haven't quite agreed with Motti's proposal. ActivePolitic has gathered some dissenting responses, including MEP Lars Christian Engstrom's rejection of Motti's proposal. "If it were China, North Korea or Saudi Arabia who had proposed this, what would we say then? It's scary in a democratic Europe to even hear a politician suggest such a thing. It is so absurd that I really hope we never have to discuss it seriously in Parliament."

Last year, Motti convinced the European Parliament to support a proposal extending the data storage directive to cover Google search terms, again using child abuse as the hot-button topic. Hopefully, Motti's latest wheeze won't be so lucky.

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