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The Breaching Of American's Data Security
While Americans seem quite comfortable with the US government 'breaching' their privacy, the surge in private sector cyber-attacks and data hacks in recent months is worrisome to many. As Bloomberg illustrates below, so far the efforts have been focused on retail merchants (as opposed to banking) with Home Depot's latest breach yet to be sized but believed to be "massive."
Of course no one trumps the US government in 'breaches'...
You will find more statistics at Statista
But as Bloomberg shows, the private sector hack is on the rise...
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You wonder how many "private sector" hacks are actually government wolves in sheep's clothing.
Conversely, how are all those foreign visa (H1-Bs, etc.) programmers and offshored coding working out for youse guys????
Clearly time for a digital currency.
Clearly not, it was the hail mary at bengazi by the corner who needs attention.
this is something i've always assumed to be the case. however, it's very hard to over or under estimate, or properly estimate how many 'criminal' hackers are out there. i go to cryptome a lot and it seems to me the number of 'prosecutions' made public are a paltry amount of the number of hackers on the net.
plus----despite the fact that hacking requires some amount of sophistication beyond the typical criminal thief-----and thus limits the number of people doing it--------the ease of reproudcing effort allows a single group of sophisticated hackers to reach out to the entire world using duplicative efforts and even botnets. so much of the time, a small group of hackers, just like ghenghis khan's not so numerous cavalry--------can appear to conduct the behavior only possible of many many more people.
we truly are living in a world where there are two teirs of actors , consumers of internet service, and those sophisticated actors who can navigate the inner workings of the net.
Probably any that don't involve credit card data. I've noticed a distinct trend lately of "big hacks" that don't involve CC data.
The question is which government? The answer is all of them.
Keep your important shit offline, boys and girls.
See what's happening the world over in real time:
http://map.ipviking.com/#
http://www.norse-corp.com/blog-thursday-140904.html
http://www.digitalattackmap.com/
http://map.honeynet.org/
Listen, I love the ones claimed to be from 'China' or 'Russia', lol. "We have their IP addresses", lol.
Your USSA media outlets have every based covered, no?
Abandon TCP/IP
More like bring on IPv6
NSA undermined most encryption, and this is what follows.
"......THEY'LL GET IT ALL FROM YA. Because they own this fuckin' place. It's a Big Club. You and I are not in the Big Club".......
Miss ya George.
Last time in Home Depot they were still using Windows XP
IRS is still on XP .
Say what you will about Mexico - but when someone recently attempted to use my Mexican based credit card number at a Texan Home Depot, the bank shut down the transaction, gave me a call and issued me a new credit card. I'm not sure it would have been handled as seamlessly NOB.
And while I'm at it - what ever happened to that Malaysian jet that was downed over Ukraine and those control tower transcipts ?
Interim report due out Tuesday
Fuck ,the morg shut down my chase Amazon card because i was in another state and i did not notify them before hand. When I called as to why it stopped working they informed me i had to pre notify them with specific dates before I travel. Do they really care about fraud or do they need to know where you are?
There's a huge push now to know your physical address at all times. It began with FX and bank accounts under the Patriot Act and has grown to where most CC companies are requesting this information. What's next? Will you need to carry a "citizens passport" to confirm your residential address at all times? Will you need "authorization" to move? Will you need to detail the locations where personal property is stored? Perhaps you will be legally required to provide the state with an inventory of your personal property?
That would make sense because the state is already treating you like a piece of property. Few seem to notice, no one complains.
while the Patriot Act is oppressive to the law-abiding citizen, it's no obstacle at all to criminals and terrorists. Yet, Obama continued it and the security agencies don't seem to care...strange.
Catch-22: you go the extra mile to secure your shit and you look like you're trying to hide something. I'm sure TOR is immediately regarded as suspicious activity.
I'm sure TOR is immediately regarded as suspicious activity.
EVERYTHING is regarded as suspicious activity.
Snowden already confirmed this.
They don't know what they can't see. If you leave your cell phone at home, they think you're at home. They have no records of cash transactions. Aside from the occassional plate reader, you're fucking invisible. A couple thousand in cash and you can buy groceries, help out a soup kitchen, have a threesome with two hookers, or pick up an AR private and a case of ammo and "they" either don't have a clue or can't tell the difference. And Snowden indicated that, too, freaks TPTB out of their minds.
I do my best to make them insomniacs myself. If I'm going to be a target anyway, there's no reason to help them know why I should be.
Read it and weep:
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140703/02494927769/nsas-xkeyscore-so...
You don't even have to use Tor; you merely have to look up information about it.
Or read articles about it, like a "Nervous Nelly".
Listen, The TOR "IS OWNED BY USSA NSA", you know it as do all the ISIL Rebels!
Fuckers like Dell are sellign Secureworks crap and think this is gonna solve the problem.
Dell = The clueless, leading the clueless.
does this surprise anyone?
a new war on cyber-Security
Brings MORWaR
Control the WeB=
Control the people
Don't put all your info online, period. I realize we kinda NEED some online capabilities, but it is foolish to put ALL your wealth in a format where it can be hacked remotely.
Use online banking to manage a small account for monthly expenses, but if you have more wealth, keep it elsewhere, in a place not subject to being hacked like that.
As for credit cards, no one should be walking around with a card having a 10,000 dollar limit, or using it online, that's just stupid. The "convenience" is illusory, the transactions you are engaging in can be done in other ways that really aren't that much more difficult.
If people's online accounts weren't so juicy they wouldn't be so enthusiastically squeezed.
"While Americans seem quite comfortable with the US government......................"
First sentence.....
Define government.
Is that the shit show some people still vote for or is that the institutions that tell the shit show how things really work?
Cog:You wonder how many "private sector" hacks are actually government wolves in sheep's clothing.
Once they go private sector and are subcontracted....anything goes, literally.
Think "information mercenaries"....they don't have to abide by any rules....as rules pertain to your so called "rights".
Hack into Wall STreet's HFT bots and have some fun. Up hundreds of points in a matter of seconds, then down hundrdreds, ith larger and larger swings.
Why hasn't that happened yet? Is their security so much tougher than HD's? Or, are you sure to get fucked in the ass if you mess with JPM?
Only a criminal and corrupt government need spy on the people.
An American, not US subject.
"I spy a head in a basket."
Yes the Court Ventures thing still had not all shuffled out yet. Over 200,000 million people "exposed" to potential hacking there. It goes back to Experian buys that company and not doing due diligence. Almost a year later the Secret Service told Experian, along with buying Court Ventures, they also got a free thief out of the deal too. This guy had been working a few years hacking in there with over 3 million queries and selling people's data, which includes the good stuff like social security numbers and more. The thief finally pleaded guilty to this hacking, but the extent of the damage has never been fully assessed. So with 200k US consumers, that's about 2/3 of the US population, so getting the drift on this one?
http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2014/04/one-really-good-reason-to-license...
This is why lawyers should not be running government agencies as all they do is focus on verbiage while computer code runs hog ass wild.
In case one is a data broker and can't pay the fine, a judge will take care of you and reduce the fine by a huge amount to make sure the broker can stay in business!
http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2014/04/two-data-brokers-get-fined-by-ftc...
So the more of your data that's out there to sell, there's more to hack, and look at this company buying up all your credit card data, analyzing and scoring you and then selling to your health insurance company, tons of this stuff going on out there and of course this makes premiums go up too with insurers collecting non relevant data to good health care.
http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2014/08/argus-analytics-produces-share-of...
It's pretty obvious that the more banks and companies sell out personal data, there's more to hack and it's becoming more flawed all the time too, as their data flip up, just like house flipping except there's no upgrades, just more flaws.
You got it all wrong, you gotts buy Ifag products, the fan bois on ZH tell me they're 100% secure.
I thought it was interesting when everyone in Hollywood went bonkers over recent hacks of a few starlet’s selfie porn portfolios.
But, every one of them is also a huge fan of Google, Facebook, and Twitter, who’s entire business model can essentially be summed up as pre-approved, sanctioned, hacking and trafficking in user data on a mass scale.
Isn't the NSA capturing and storing all data worldwide part of the U.S. gov, that's comepletly broke and trying to get (steal) money any way they can....
bank, stock market, metals fraud, war, coups,......get the point?
Who's the hacker?
NSA is the USSA's worst nightmare. ISIL will neutralize them!
Support the Rebels!
You my friend are so far over on the edge you are just a dot, I don't support psychopaths, NSA or ISIL.
Listen AustralianKiwi or "Whatever". You have no dog in the fight so just sit back and observe. Soon, one of those south pacific islands will be captured by the world police and all worthless criminals will be sent there in exile!
Beware!
Suggest you go to this web site and awake from your snooze.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/
ISIL is a CIA operation. I suggest reading more.
Fake cell towers would make it a pretty straight forward deal to get in. No?
There have been improvements, recently traveled from Aussie to NZ and then decided to log on to one of my yahoo emails, Yahoo immediately identified that I was not at my usual location and flagged the attempted access resulting in me having to give additional info I have filed with them before it would let me access my email, I liked that a lot, good work Yahoo.
I do not trust any large blue chip US tech comapnies, Microsoft, Google, Apple, Facebook....fuck em all. They are in bed with the NSA.
Its true, when I used hotmail and you logged in from an "unusual"location, it would immediately ask you to provide for more personal information like phone numbers, additional emails etc.. all for my security. MY ASS! I don't trust giving any more numbers/emails than I need to, to these giant data suckers. Facebook now requieres you to give a phone number to prove you are a real. Privacy is non-existent if you give your data to these companies. Google tracks you and makes a profile of all your searches.
I do not trust corporate entities with my data, my concern is legitimate and if they think just because I value my privacy I am equated with an extremist, then I have some words: Go fuck yourselves!
If cyber warfare and cyber-attacks are not on your list of modern worries, it is time you put them on. Either could make your life much more difficult or in a worse case scenario end it. A series of high-profile events since 2010 has highlighted the increasing and multifaceted threat of cyber-attacks.
U.S. cyber-security policy continues to evolve to meet these challenges, but critical gaps remain, including the incomplete protection of digital infrastructure vital to national security, such as power grids and financial networks. On a personal level having your accounts hacked, or having someone steal your identity can turn your life upside down. More on this subject in the article below.
http://brucewilds.blogspot.com/2013/05/cyber-warfare-and-attacks.html