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Numbnuts like Reed Gusciora....
Excerpt from News12.com:
[Governor Chris] Christie said, "You have numbnuts like Reed Gusciora, who put out a statement comparing me to George Wallace and Lester Maddox... Come on guys, at some point you have to be able to call B.S. on these press releases."
Talking points are always attention getters. Calling people names are great talking points. I would absolutely appreciate if News12 would do an indepth look at the legal issues with human trafficking, sex trafficking and gay adoptions. That may shed some light on why Chris Christie is impassioned about the gay marriage issue. Don't forget, he was with the DOJ before being governor. He saw the underbelly of human trafficking.
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C7? Interesting.
The FBI just arrested a member of the hacker group Anonymous in California. He belonged to a group called Food Not Bombs. This group was added to the Homeland Security watch list a few years ago.
Food Not Bombs has an organizational location in Atlanta GA that refers to themselves as C7:
What caught my eye is, I just saw C7 used elsewhere:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/64077053/Ccccccc-Special-Report-A-Briefing-on-the-Litigation-History-of-the-Attorneys-in-Liberi-v-Taitz-C-D-CA
Using CCCCCCC and C7 by accident? Or is this part of the same collective? I've also seen one of the same contributors to this report post the Goatse.cx picture/logo at this forum. Coincidence? Maybe. Maybe not.
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Your Ass Wasn't Hid
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-20110264-83/alleged-lulzsec-anonymous-hackers-arrested-in-ariz-calif/
Excerpt:
In the Sony case, Kretsinger is accused of using proxy services via the hidemyass.com site, designed to offer anonymous Internet access, to probe Sony Pictures Entertainment's computer systems in May, according to the indictment, which was unsealed in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles today.
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oopsie.....
HideMyAss provides FBI with logs for LulzSec
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HideMyAss.com:
"...services such as ours do not exist to hide people from illegal activity. We will cooperate with law enforcement agencies if it has become evident that your account has been used for illegal activities."
These old links to latest members no longer work; but they did at the time....
At the time they were needed anyway ^-^. Karma is a good thing.
http://www.cantbustme.com/surf.php?q=aHR0cDovL3N0ZWYuZGFpbHlrb3MuY29t CGIs to (AKA) http://hidemyass.com/?q=aHR0cDovL3N0ZWYuZGFpbHlrb3MuY29t
XXXX is lised in the 'Latest Member's Topis' (bottom right of page)
...... Sept 5 2010: '.............'
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Hacker bw0mp is pwned
Gee, what a masquerade some phpbb forums are. Fronts for hacktivists.
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Can you say, Vexatious?
Excerpt from Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vexatious_litigant
Under California law[24] a vexatious litigant is someone who does any of the following, most of which require that the litigant be proceeding pro se, i.e., representing himself:
- In the immediately preceding seven-year period has commenced, prosecuted, or maintained
- After a litigation has been finally determined against the person, repeatedly relitigates or attempts to relitigate, in propria persona, either (i) the validity of the determination against the same defendant or defendants as to whom the litigation was finally determined or (ii) the cause of action, claim, controversy, or any of the issues of fact or law, determined or concluded by the final determination against the same defendant or defendants as to whom the litigation was finally determined.
- In any litigation while acting in propria persona, repeatedly files unmeritorious motions, pleadings, or other papers, conducts unnecessary discovery, or engages in other tactics that are frivolous or solely intended to cause unnecessary delay.
- Has previously been declared to be a vexatious litigant by any state or federal court of record in any action or proceeding based upon the same or substantially similar facts, transaction, or occurrence.
Appeals of an existing action do not count as “final determinations”. Appeals and writs that are related to a current action do not count as “final determinations” or additional determinations, because until all avenues of appeal have been exhausted the determinations cannot be construed as “final”.[25] A judgment is final for all purposes when all avenues for direct review have been exhausted.[26] Interlocutory decisions before a judgment cannot be considered “final determinations”.[27] Docket lists show nothing about qualifying merit of interim motions (Id.)
To meet the unspecified criteria for "repeated" motions or litigations, the number must be much more than two, and the rule based on case law seems to be around 12. "While there is no bright line rule as to what constitutes “repeatedly,” most cases affirming the vexatious litigant designation involve situations where litigants have filed dozens of motions either during the pendency of an action or relating to the same judgment." [28]
Repeated motions must be "so devoid of merit and be so frivolous that they can be described as a flagrant
Habeas petitions do not count towards vexatious litigant determination.[31] Vexatiousness in Probate Actions are governed by a different standard (Cal. Prob. Code s. 1611).
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Guy Fawkes and Anonymous
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anonymous_(group)
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Anonymous (used as a mass noun) is a group initiating active civil disobedience and spread through the Internet while staying hidden, originating in 2003 on the imageboard 4chan, representing the concept of many online community users simultaneously existing as an anarchic, digitized global brain.[2] It is also generally considered to be a blanket term for members of certain Internet subcultures, a way to refer to the actions of people in an environment where their actual identities are not known.[3]In its early form, the concept has been adopted by a decentralized online community acting anonymously in a coordinated manner, usually toward a loosely self-agreed goal, and primarily
Although not necessarily tied to a single online entity, many websites are strongly associated with Anonymous. This includes notable
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Words and Humor of the Day
Irony (from the Ancient Greek εἰρωνεία eirōneía, meaning dissimulation or feigned ignorance)
Situational Irony when actions taken have an effect exactly opposite from what was intended
Which, in this case, leads to Comic Irony since this is humorous
HatTip to Wikipedia
Representation of my happy dance
Thank you gifsoup for the borrowed animation.
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Sixteen Individuals Arrested in the United States for Alleged Roles in Cyber Attacks
http://www.fbi.gov/news/pressrel/press-releases/sixteen-individuals-arrested-in-the-united-states-for-alleged-roles-in-cyber-attacks
Sixteen Individuals Arrested in the United States for Alleged Roles in Cyber Attacks
More Than 35 Search Warrants Executed in United States, Five Arrests in Europe as Part of Ongoing Cyber InvestigationsU.S. Department of Justice July 19, 2011 — filed under:WASHINGTON—Fourteen individuals were arrested today by FBI agents on charges related to their alleged involvement in a cyber attack on PayPal’s website as part of an action claimed by the group “Anonymous,” announced the Department of Justice and the FBI. Two additional defendants were arrested today on cyber-related charges.
The 14 individuals were arrested in Alabama, Arizona, California, Colorado, the District of Columbia, Florida, Massachusetts, Nevada, New Mexico, and Ohio on charges contained in an indictment unsealed today in the Northern District of California in San Jose. In addition, two individuals were arrested on similar charges in two separate complaints filed in the Middle District of Florida and the District of New Jersey. Also today, FBI agents executed more than 35 search warrants throughout the United States as part of an ongoing investigation into coordinated cyber attacks against major companies and organizations. Finally, the United Kingdom’s Metropolitan Police Service arrested one person and the Dutch National Police Agency arrested four individuals today for alleged related cyber crimes.
According to the San Jose indictment, in late November 2010, WikiLeaks released a large amount of classified U.S. State Department cables on its website. Citing violations of the PayPal terms of service, and in response to WikiLeaks’ release of the classified cables, PayPal suspended WikiLeaks’ accounts so that WikiLeaks could no longer receive donations via PayPal. WikiLeaks’ website declared that PayPal’s action “tried to economically strangle WikiLeaks.”
The San Jose indictment alleges that in retribution for PayPal’s termination of WikiLeaks’ donation account, a group calling itself Anonymous coordinated and executed distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks against PayPal’s computer servers using an open source computer program the group makes available for free download on the Internet. DDoS attacks are attempts to render computers unavailable to users through a variety of means, including saturating the target computers or networks with external communications requests, thereby denying service to legitimate users. According to the indictment, Anonymous referred to the DDoS attacks on PayPal as “Operation Avenge Assange.”
The defendants charged in the San Jose indictment allegedly conspired with others to intentionally damage protected computers at PayPal from Dec. 6, 2010, to Dec. 10, 2010.
The individuals named in the San Jose indictment are: Christopher Wayne Cooper, 23, aka “Anthrophobic;” Joshua John Covelli, 26, aka “Absolem” and “Toxic;” Keith Wilson Downey, 26; Mercedes Renee Haefer, 20, aka “No” and “MMMM;” Donald Husband, 29, aka “Ananon;” Vincent Charles Kershaw, 27, aka “Trivette,” “Triv” and “Reaper;” Ethan Miles, 33; James C. Murphy, 36; Drew Alan Phillips, 26, aka “Drew010;” Jeffrey Puglisi, 28, aka “Jeffer,” “Jefferp” and “Ji;” Daniel Sullivan, 22; Tracy Ann Valenzuela, 42; and Christopher Quang Vo, 22. One individual’s name has been withheld by the court.
The defendants are charged with various counts of conspiracy and intentional damage to a protected computer. They will make initial appearances throughout the day in the districts in which they were arrested.
In addition to the activities in San Jose, Scott Matthew Arciszewski, 21, was arrested today by FBI agents on charges of intentional damage to a protected computer. Arciszewski is charged in a complaint filed in the Middle District of Florida and made his initial appearance this afternoon in federal court in Orlando, Fla.
According to the complaint, on June 21, 2011, Arciszewski allegedly accessed without authorization the Tampa Bay InfraGard website and uploaded three files. The complaint alleges that Arciszewski then tweeted about the intrusion and directed visitors to a separate website containing links with instructions on how to exploit the Tampa InfraGard website. InfraGard is a public-private partnership for critical infrastructure protection sponsored by the FBI with chapters in all 50 states.
Also today, a related complaint unsealed in the District of New Jersey charges Lance Moore, 21, of Las Cruces, N.M., with allegedly stealing confidential business information stored on AT&T’s servers and posting it on a public file sharing site. Moore was arrested this morning at his residence by FBI agents and is expected to make an initial appearance this afternoon in Las Cruces federal court. Moore is charged in with one count of accessing a protected computer without authorization.
According to the New Jersey complaint, Moore, a customer support contractor, exceeded his authorized access to AT&T’s servers and downloaded thousands of documents, applications and other files that, on the same day, he allegedly posted on a public file-hosting site that promises user anonymity. According to the complaint, on June 25, 2011, the computer hacking group LulzSec publicized that they had obtained confidential AT&T documents and made them publicly available on the Internet. The documents were the ones Moore had previously uploaded.
The charge of intentional damage to a protected computer carries a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine. Each count of conspiracy carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
An indictment and a complaint merely contain allegations. Defendants are presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt in a court of law.
To date, more than 75 searches have taken place in the United States as part of the ongoing investigations into these attacks.
These cases are being prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorneys in the U.S. Attorneys’ Offices for the Northern District of California, Middle District of Florida, and the District of New Jersey. The Criminal Division’s Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section also has provided assistance.
Today’s operational activities were done in coordination with the Metropolitan Police Service in the United Kingdom and the Dutch National Police Agency. The FBI thanks the multiple international, federal, and domestic law enforcement agencies who continue to support these operations.
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National Cyber Alert System
National Cyber Alert System
Technical Cyber Security Alert TA11-200A
Security Recommendations to Prevent Cyber Intrusions
Original release date: July 19, 2011
Last revised: --
Source: US-CERT
Overview
US-CERT is providing this Technical Security Alert in response to
recent, well-publicized intrusions into several government and
private sector computer networks. Cyber thieves, hacktivists,
pranksters, nation-states, and malicious coders for hire all pose
serious threats to the security of both government and private
sector networks. A comprehensive security program provides the best
defense against the full spectrum of threats that our computer
networks face today. Network administrators and technical managers
should not only follow the recommended security controls
information systems outlined in NIST 800-53 but also consider the
following measures. These measures include both tactical and
strategic mitigations and are intended to enhance existing security
programs.
Recommendations
* Deploy a Host Intrusion Detection System (HIDS) to help block and
identify common attacks.
* Use an application proxy in front of web servers to filter out
malicious requests.
* Ensure that the "allow URL_fopen" is disabled on the web server
to help limit PHP vulnerabilities from remote file inclusion
attacks.
* Limit the use of dynamic SQL code by using prepared statements,
queries with parameters, or stored procedures whenever possible.
Information on SQL injections is available at
<http://www.us-cert.gov/reading_room/sql200901.pdf>.
* Follow the best practices for secure coding and input validation;
use the secure coding guidelines available at:
<https://www.owasp.org/index.php/Top_10_2010> and
<https://buildsecurityin.us-cert.gov/bsi/articles/knowledge/coding/305-BSI.html>.
* Review US-CERT documentation regarding distributed
denial-of-service attacks:
<http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/tips/ST04-015.html> and
<http://www.us-cert.gov/reading_room/DNS-recursion033006.pdf>.
* Disable active scripting support in email attachments unless
required to perform daily duties.
* Consider adding the following measures to your password and
account protection plan.* Use a two factor authentication method
for accessing privileged root level accounts.
* Use minimum password length of 15 characters for administrator
accounts.
* Require the use of alphanumeric passwords and symbols.
* Enable password history limits to prevent the reuse of previous
passwords.
* Prevent the use of personal information as password such as phone
numbers and dates of birth.
* Require recurring password changes every 60-90 days.
* Deploy NTLMv2 as the minimum authentication method and disable
the use of LAN Managed passwords.
* Use minimum password length of 8 characters for standard users.
* Disable local machine credential caching if not required through
the use of Group Policy Object (GPO). For more information on this
topic see Microsoft Support articles 306992 and 555631.
* Deploy a secure password storage policy that provides password
encryption.
* If an administrator account is compromised, change the password
immediately to prevent continued exploitation. Changes to
administrator account passwords should only be made from systems
that are verified to be clean and free from malware.
* Implement guidance and policy to restrict the use of personal
equipment for processing or accessing official data or systems
(e.g., working from home or using a personal device while at the
office).
* Develop policies to carefully limit the use of all removable
media devices, except where there is a documented valid business
case for its use. These business cases should be approved by the
organization with guidelines for there use.
* Implement guidance and policies to limit the use of social
networking services at work, such as personal email, instant
messaging, Facebook, Twitter, etc., except where there is a valid
approved business case for its use.
* Adhere to network security best practices. See
<http://www.cert.org/governance/> for more information.
* Implement recurrent training to educate users about the dangers
involved in opening unsolicited emails and clicking on links or
attachments from unknown sources. Refer to NIST SP 800-50 for
additional guidance.
* Require users to complete the agency's "acceptable use
policy" training course (to include social engineering sites and
non-work related uses) on a recurring basis.
* Ensure that all systems have up-to-date patches from reliable
sources. Remember to scan or hash validate for viruses or
modifications as part of the update process.
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The most recent version of this document can be found at:
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA11-200A.html
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US-CERT Current Activity
Oracle Releases Critical Patch Update for July 2011
Original release date: July 15, 2011 at 7:57 am
Last revised: July 19, 2011 at 4:02 pm
Oracle has released its Critical Patch Update for July 2011 to address
78 vulnerabilities across multiple products. This update contains the
following security fixes:
* 13 for Oracle Database Server
* 3 for Oracle Secure Backup
* 7 for Oracle Fusion Middleware
* 18 for Oracle Enterprise Manager
* 1 for Oracle E-Business Suite
* 1 for Oracle Supply Chain Products Suite
* 12 for Oracle PeopleSoft and JDEdwards Suite
* 23 for Oracle Sun Products Suite
US-CERT encourages users and administrators to review the July 2011
Critical Patch Update and apply any necessary updates to help mitigate
the risks.
Relevant Url(s):
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpujuly2011-313328.html
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This entry is available at
http://www.us-cert.gov/current/index.html#oracle_releases_patch_update_pre
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Organized Romanian Criminal Groups Targeted by DOJ and Romanian Law Enforcement
http://www.fbi.gov/news/pressrel/press-releases/organized-romanian-criminal-groups-targeted-by-doj-and-romanian-law-enforcement
Organized Romanian Criminal Groups Targeted by DOJ and Romanian Law Enforcement
21 Individuals Charged to Date in the United States for Alleged Roles in Internet Fraud SchemeU.S. Department of Justice July 15, 2011 — filed under:WASHINGTON—An ongoing Internet fraud scheme conducted by several networks of organized cyber criminals in Romania and the United States has been disrupted as a result of a series of law enforcement actions coordinated since 2010 between Romanian and U.S. law enforcement, including numerous arrests and searches that took place yesterday in Romania.
More than 100 individuals have been arrested and charged in Romania and judicial districts in the United States as a result of close cooperation between the Romanian General Inspectorate of Police, Directorate for Combating Organized Crime, the Romanian Directorate for Investigating Infractions of Organized Crime and Terrorism (DIICOT), the Romanian Intelligence Service (SRI), the General Directorate of Jandarmeria in Romania (GIJR) and the FBI, the U.S. Secret Service, the Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section (CCIPS) in the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, and the U.S. Attorneys’ Offices for the Southern District of Florida, the Western District of Pennsylvania and the Eastern District of Missouri.
Yesterday, Romania law enforcement executed 117 searches targeting more than 100 individuals allegedly involved in the fraudulent scheme involving fake sales of merchandise through the Internet. Romanian law enforcement targeted individuals organizing and perpetrating this fraud from Romania.
According to U.S. court documents, in many of the cases, conspirators located in Romania would post items for sale such as cars, motorcycles and boats on Internet auction and online websites. They would instruct victims located in the United States and elsewhere who wanted to buy those items to wire transfer the purchase money to a fictitious name they claimed to be an employee of an escrow company. Once the victim wired the funds, the co-conspirators in Romania would text information about the wire transfer to co-conspirators in the United States known as “arrows” to enable them to retrieve the wired funds. They would also provide the arrows with instructions as to where to send the funds after retrieval. The arrows in the United States would go to money transmitter service counters such as Western Union or MoneyGram International, provide false documents including passports and drivers’ licenses in the name of the recipient of the wire transfer, and obtain the funds. They would subsequently wire the funds overseas, typically to individuals in Romania, minus a percentage kept for their commissions. In some cases, co-conspirators in Romania also directed arrows to provide bank accounts in the United States where larger amounts of funds could be wired by victims of the fraud. The victims would not receive the items they believed they were purchasing.
The Romania investigation is being conducted in conjunction with ongoing criminal investigations in the United States that also have been targeting this criminal activity. Since May 2010, the FBI and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Florida have arrested and prosecuted numerous individuals from Romania, Moldova and the United States allegedly involved in this fraud scheme. Vadim Gherghelejiu, 29, of Moldova; Anatolie Bisericanu, 25, of Moldova; Jairo Osorno, 22, of Surfside, Fla.; Jason Eibinder, 22, of Sunny Isles Beach, Fla.; and Ciprian Jdera, 25, of Romania, have been convicted in the Southern District of Florida of conspiracy to commit wire fraud.
A 21-count indictment returned in Miami on Feb. 22, 2011 charged Pedro Pulido, 41, of Pembroke Pines, Fla.; Ivan Boris Barkovic, 19, of Sunny Isles Beach; Beand Dorsainville, 20, of North Miami Beach, Fla.; Sergiu Petrov, aka “Serogia,” 27, of Moldova; Oleg Virlan, 32, of Moldova; Marian Cristea, 22, of Romania; and Andrian Olarita, 26, of Moldova, with conspiracy to commit wire fraud and substantive counts of wire fraud. Pulido, Barkovic, Dorsainville and Olarita have pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud. Petrov, Virlan and Cristea remain at large and are considered fugitives.
On July 8, 2011, Adrian Culda, 37, of Romania, was arrested and subsequently charged in a complaint filed in Miami with conspiracy to commit wire fraud as part of this alleged cyber crime activity. Tiberiu Zachiteanu, 19, of Romania, was also charged in the same complaint with conspiracy to commit wire fraud and was arrested on July 12, 2011.
An investigation conducted by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Pennsylvania led to the arrests of seven defendants, including one individual in Pittsburgh, three individuals in the Eastern District of Missouri, two individuals in Fort Bend County, Texas, and one individual in Kentucky. Marion Potcovaru, 30, of Romania, pleaded guilty on Feb. 2, 2011, to wire fraud related charges in the Western District of Pennsylvania. In St. Louis, the U.S. Attorney’s Office charged Augustin Prundurelu, 32, and Georgiana Andrei, 25, both of Romania, with forgery and passport fraud. Both defendants pleaded guilty and each were sentenced to six months in prison and ordered to pay restitution of $18,365. In addition, Sorin Mihai Madaian, 22, of Romania, pleaded guilty on May 23, 2011, in the Eastern District of Missouri to passport fraud charges. Victor Angelescu, 28, of Romania, was charged by the Commonwealth Attorney’s Office for the 27th Judicial Circuit of Kentucky with related wire fraud charges. In Fort Bend County, Texas, Klara Mirabela Rusu, 24, and Eduard Sorin Neacsu, 36, were arrested on June 3, 2011, by officers from the Houston Police Department and charged by Fort Bend and Harris County authorities with money laundering and making false statements to obtain property. Rusu was indicted by a Fort Bend County grand jury on July 11, 2011, and charged with the felony offenses of money laundering and making a false statement. Neacsu’s grand jury date is pending due to possible additional charges. Both individuals are currently detained.
According to court documents, detectives observed Rusu and Neacsu enter a WalMart store, where Rusu and Neacsu presented a MoneyGram voucher and false identifications to a store clerk. Rusu and Neascu received $2,890 through Western Union and Money Gram from a victim in another state who had wired the money in response to an Internet advertisement for merchandise, which the victim never received. Rusu and Neacsu were later arrested and a search of their room produced a large amount of U.S. currency, computers, printers, plastic for manufacturing false identifications, an exacto knife, multiple mobile phones and false identifications with Neacsu’s picture.
An indictment is merely an allegation, and defendants are presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt in a court of law.
The Internet fraud scheme has resulted in an estimated loss of more than $10 million from victims, including those in the United States. The full loss amount and identification of additional victims is ongoing.
Over the last 10 years, U.S. law enforcement authorities have strengthened ties with Romanian law enforcement authorities to address the rising threats posed by Romanian-based organized cyber criminal networks. To date, hundreds of defendants have been arrested and charged in the United States, Romania, and other countries as a result of this cooperation.
The Department of Justice International Organized Crime Intelligence and Operations Center (IOC-2) has provided support and assistance to these ongoing investigations. IOC-2 partners with various law enforcement agencies to combine data and produce actionable leads for investigators and prosecutors working nationwide to combat international organized crime. IOC-2 also coordinates the resulting multi-jurisdictional investigations and prosecutions with its member agencies, U.S. Attorneys’ Offices and foreign law enforcement authorities.
The ongoing investigations are being led by the FBI and the U.S. Secret Service. U.S. Immigrations and Custom Enforcement is participating in the investigation related to the Pittsburgh cases. The federal cases are being prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorneys from the U.S. Attorneys’ Offices for the Southern District of Florida, the Western District of Pennsylvania and the Eastern District of Missouri, with support from CCIPS.
Local law enforcement assisting in these prosecutions include the Medina County, Ohio, Sheriff’s Office; the London, Ky., Police Department; Memphis, Tenn., Airport Police; the Kirkwood, Mo., Police Department; the Fort Bend and Harris County, Texas, District Attorneys’ Offices; the Houston Police Department; the Hallandale Beach, Fla., Police Department; the Pembroke Pines Police Department; the Miami Gardens Police Department; the Sunny Isles Beach Police Department; the North Miami Beach Police Department and the Davie, Fla., Police Department.
Also assisting law enforcement were the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3), Wal-Mart Stores, Western Union, MoneyGram International, the National Cyber-Forensics and Training Alliance (NCFTA) and Publix Grocery Stores.
Victims of Internet crime are encouraged to report evidence of fraudulent activity to the IC3 via www.ic3.gov.
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Tea Party Nation Bolsters Its Extremist Credentials
Southern Poverty Law Center - Hatewatch
http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2011/07/14/tea-party-nation-bolsters-its-extremist-credentials/print/
Tea Party Nation Bolsters Its Extremist Credentials
Read More:As if worried that it’s getting too mainstream, the Tea Party Nation – one of the most extreme factions of the Tea Party movement – has lashed out lately with a flurry of attacks on immigrants, Muslims, LGBT people, and, of course, President Obama’s birthright eligibility for office.
Tea Party Nation blogger Alan Caruba broke new ground Wednesday with a bizarre attempt to liken Obama to Casey Anthony, the single mother from Florida who was recently acquitted of murdering her 2-year-old daughter after a much-publicized trial.
In an essay entitled “Casey Anthony, Miss America,” Caruba wrote, “President Obama was the son of a divorced, teen-aged mother, who remarried, divorced again, and abandoned her child to the care of her parents. The President experienced trauma and dislocation throughout all of his formative years. Why should we not conclude that it seriously affected him? Common to both Ms. Anthony and the President is the persistent and blatant telling of lies.”
Never mind that this comparison ignores that Anthony was a single mother, while Obama was raised by one. The point is clear: In the eyes of Tea Party Nation, the president is a liar. Tea Party Nation founder Judson Phillips reinforced that position just Friday in a column praising Orly Taitz, one of the most tenacious proponents of the thoroughly disproven theory that Obama wasn’t really born in the United States and therefore lied his way into office.
Fantasizing about what it would mean if Obama were booted from office for lying about his place of birth, Phillips wrote, “[E]verything he did [would be] void. … [G]iven the potential reward of undoing everything Obama has done, why any conservative dismisses the eligibility issues as ‘birtherism’ is simply beyond belief.”
That’s not the only counter-historical bit of whimsy the Tea Party Nation has on offer. In her July 4th column on immigration for the group’s site, blogger Eliana Benador praised the racist Immigration Act of 1924, which outlawed all Asian immigration and instituted national origin quotas favoring Northern European immigrants. The act stood until 1965, when the Immigration and Nationality Act finally abolished the national origin quota system that had sharply limited the number of non-white immigrants.
According to Benador, that change “ended up altering the immigration pattern and opening doors to non-European nations, thus forever changing the intrinsic tissue of American society.” In “endlessly increasing numbers,” she complained, these non-European immigrants “are bringing in a whole new texture of culture, 100% foreign to what America’s origins were as its wonderful adventure began in 1776.”
The worst immigrants of all, Benador wrote, are Muslims, who (she claims) are using the First Amendment to invade from within and turn our system against us. “[T]he First Amendment does not stipulate that ‘freedom of religion’ must be upheld even if the followers of a religion have perpetrated an attack on, and massacred, our civilian population in times of peace, and especially if that religion incites to the destruction of our country, our people, and our values.”
Tea Party Nation’s Rich Swier, who beefed up the group’s record of racism with a March 28 blog stating, “The White Anglo-Saxon Protestant [WASP] population in America is headed for extinction,” weighed in last month on threats from another perceived internal enemy, the LGBT community. Proclaiming the campaign against anti-gay bullying a “sham” and comparing LGBT people to drug addicts, Swier wrote, “This is not bullying. It is peer pressure and it is healthy. There are many bad behaviors such as smoking, under age drinking and drug abuse that are behaviors that cannot be condoned. Homosexuality falls into this category. Homosexuality is simply bad behavior that youth see as such and rightly pressure their peers to stop it.”
Tea Party Nation, if nothing else, is consistent. Its 2010 convention featured a parade of divisive figures, include the viciously anti-gay head of Vision America Rick Scarborough, former Alabama Supreme Court Justice Roy Moore (who was impeached for refusing to remove a 2½-ton statue of the 10 Commandments he’d had installed in the state judicial building without consent and in the dead of night), and hard-line anti-immigration politician Tom Tancredo.
Founder Judson Phillips once said, “I’m not trying [to] attract moderates. Moderates are just those who have no core beliefs.” Based on Tea Party Nation’s past and recent pronouncements, there isn’t much danger of that.
http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-report/browse-all-issues/2010/summer/meet-the-patriots?page=0,3
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90,000 Military Email Accounts Leaked in Latest Hack
From The Hacker News
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