TrapWire : un réseau d'espionnage dans les mains d'une entité privée Depuis 10 jours, Wikileaks subit une attaque DDOS sans précédent contre ses serveurs, tellement surchargés de connexions qu'ils n'arrivent plus à rester en ligne pour répondre aux demandes légitimes de lecture de ses pages. Jamais le site n'avait connu une offensive d'une telle violence. Or pour Wikileaks, il faut faire un lien direct entre ces attaques et la divulgation de nouveaux e-mails issus de la fuite de Stratfor. Ces e-mails montrent en effet l'existence d'un réseau de surveillance d'ampleur mis en place aux Etats-Unis et en Grande-Bretagne, sous le contrôle d'une société privée baptisée TrapWire, fondée en 2007 (elle s'appelait alors Abraxas Applications, avant de changer de nom suite à la vente de la maison-mère Abraxas Corporation). TrapWire est dirigé par d'anciens haut fonctionnaires de la CIA, trois de ses quatre directeurs étant issus de l'agence américaine, en plus du fondateur de la société.
An Interview with Richard "Hollis" Helms, Founder and CEO, Abraxas Corp. // The Entrepreneur Center @ NVTC Not to be confused with the other Richard Helms (who headed the CIA under Nixon), “Hollis” Helms was with the CIA for nearly 30 years until October 1999, including 12 years overseas in several postings in the Mideast and South Asia. He was also one of the original assignees to its Counter Terrorism Center in the mid-1980s. He started Abraxas Corp. four years ago. Bisnow on Business: This is some retirement – you left the government and became an entrepreneur. So what does Abraxas do exactly? Who would use you for what? What’s the deliverable? Choosing to put your own money up first is a risk. So you don’t believe that early money is like yeast? You really draw from the early entrepreneurial spirit of aviation. You have a product with an intriguing name: TrapWire. Is TrapWire a service or a product, or what does it look like exactly? You were the only employee at the beginning, and now you've grown to over 200. What do you think of advisory boards? Which was? What does Abraxas mean?
why is the company called “abraxas”, why is the boss’s nickname “hollis”, why why why « Niqnaq To tell you the truth, I was having to fill out a Virginia state incorporation form, and I went into the living room and said, “Quick, give me a name. I don’t want to be one of these companies named after myself.” And my daughter was reading a book of mythology. Only later did I realize Abraxas was also the name of a hard rock band, and a Santana album. - “Hollis” Helms (no relation) Stratfor emails reveal secret, widespread TrapWire surveillance systemRussia Today, Aug 10 2012 Former senior intelligence officials have created a detailed surveillance system more accurate than modern facial recognition technology and have installed it across the US under the radar of most USAians, according to emails hacked by Anonymous. At the same time, however, WikiLeaks was relentlessly assaulted by a barrage of DDoS attacks, crippling the whistleblower site and its mirrors, significantly cutting short the number of people who would otherwise have unfettered access to the emails. God Bless USAia.
TrapWire The report which is available as a 3.5MB pdf which places Australia in second place, behind America, but ahead of China in cyber capabilities. The report is written by Tobias Feakin, Jess Woodall and Klée Aiken and published through Australian Strategic Policy Institute, or the ASPI. It reads more like a score card, the same criteria is marked off against each country in a tabulated format. This then gives a ranking from highest to lowest. Throughout the criteria the most common flaw seems to be out dated or poorly maintained infrastructure which is impeding the internet access to a population. Some countries receive high praise for scoring in the eighty percents as others are relegated to “poor” and “disconnected”. What the report fails to highlight is the difference between internet subscriptions and mobile phones connected to the internet, or is this a statistical trick, often used to make things seem more than what they really are…? Like this: Like Loading...
HGH Infrared Systems Announces Solution for Persistent Surveillance Boston, MA (PRWEB) July 17, 2012 A Proven Mil-rugged Solution for Persistent Surveillance is Now Commercially Available Thanks to HGH and Stara July 17, 2012 Boston, MA HGH Infrared Systems, Inc. and STARA Technologies have signed a teaming agreement to cooperate on the promotion of the PGST-WAS Tower, a wide area surveillance tower. HGH Infrared Systems is deploying dozens of IR Revolution 360 cameras for the Persistent Ground Surveillance System (PGSS) program, to protect Forward Operating Bases in Afghanistan. HGH Infrared Systems and STARA Technologies plan to capitalize on the successes achieved jointly in the past two years with the PGSS program to promote the PGST-WAS tower to other governmental entities and international commercial clients. About HGH Infrared Systems Founded in 1982, HGH designs, develops, assembles and sells complete high end optronics systems for security, industrial and civil applications. About STARA
The Gentleperson's Guide To Forum Spies 25 February 2014. Related: GCHQ Full-Spectrum Cyber Effects: 24 February 2014. GCHQ DISRUPTION Operational Playbook: 29 January 2014. (18MB) 4 March 2012. 12 July 2012 The Gentleperson's Guide To Forum Spies A sends: The Gentleperson's Guide To Forum Spies (spooks, feds, etc.) 1. COINTELPRO Techniques for dilution, misdirection and control of a internet forum.. There are several techniques for the control and manipulation of a internet forum no matter what, or who is on it. Technique #1 - 'FORUM SLIDING' If a very sensitive posting of a critical nature has been posted on a forum - it can be quickly removed from public view by 'forum sliding.' Technique #2 - 'CONSENSUS CRACKING' 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8.
Sinaloa Cartel Operative Jesus Vincente Zambada Niebla Makes Explosive Allegation About Operation ‘Fast and Furious’ A high-ranking Mexican drug cartel operative currently in U.S. custody is making startling allegations that the failed federal gun-walking operation known as “Fast and Furious” isn’t what you think it is. It wasn’t about tracking guns, it was about supplying them — all part of an elaborate agreement between the U.S. government and Mexico’s powerful Sinaloa Cartel to take down rival cartels. The explosive allegations are being made by Jesus Vicente Zambada-Niebla, known as the Sinaloa Cartel’s “logistics coordinator.” He was extradited to the Chicago last year to face federal drug charges. Jesus Vicente Zambada-Niebla (Source: MSNBC) Zambada-Niebla claims that under a “divide and conquer” strategy, the U.S. helped finance and arm the Sinaloa Cartel through Operation Fast and Furious in exchange for information that allowed the DEA, U.S. “Congress won’t get involved in really any criminal case until the trial is over and the smoke has cleared,” he added. “Classified Materials”
La carte d’un monde d’espions OWNI en partenariat avec Wikileaks vous propose cette carte interactive permettant d'identifier toutes les sociétés à travers le monde qui développent et vendent des systèmes d'interception massives. Depuis le mois de septembre dernier, OWNI, en partenariat avec WikiLeaks et cinq autres médias, a mis à jour les activités et les technologies des sociétés – souvent proches des services de renseignement et des institutions militaires – à l’origine de ce nouveau marché de l’interception massive. Pour une part très significative, ces industriels discrets sont implantés dans des démocraties occidentales. Ils fournissent en matériels d’écoutes et d’interception de masse leur propre gouvernement mais aussi de nombreuses dictatures. Ces matériels appartiennent à cinq grandes catégories : Les Spy Files sont diffusés par WikiLeaks à cette adresse. Application pensée par Paule d’Atha, réalisée par Abdelilah el Mansouri au développement et Marion Boucharlat au graphisme /-)
Les techniques secrètes pour contrôler les forums et l’opinion publique Attention, c'est du lourd ! Le 12 juillet dernier, le site Cryptome, sorte d'ancêtre à Wikileaks, qui publie des documents que les gouvernements et les sociétés n'aimeraient pas voir sur le net, a mis en ligne le témoignage et les explications techniques d'un ex-agent de Cointelpro. Cointelpro est une organisation US liée au FBI dont la mission était de faire de la désinformation et de foutre le bordel parmi les groupes d'activistes. Officiellement, Cointelpro a disparu en 71, mais l'organisation a juste changé de noms. Maintenant en plus d'infiltrer de manière classique des groupes d'activistes, cette ou ces organisations gouvernementales officient sur Internet pour enterrer les bad buzz et noyer le poisson sur les forums d'activistes. Le 18 juillet, ce témoignage sur Cryptome a été mis en avant sur Slashdot par un contributeur de longue date. Mais peu importe... Techniques pour manipuler les forums sur Internet Technique #1 – " FORUM SLIDING " Technique #2 – " CONSENSUS CRACKING " 1. 1.
Top 5 Stratfor Wikileaks Revelations (So Far) This week, Wikileaks began publishing the first of some five million hacked emails from the private intelligence firm, Stratfor, which cultivates anonymous sources in governments and business in order to provide intelligence assessments on a variety of matters to paying clients. Many of the emails are mundane and not particularly insightful, while others, if accurate, are more revelatory. Based on my readings of all the emails released thus far, here are the five most interesting: #5. Sharif Mobley wasn’t in Al Qaeda, despite media claims. The real story here isn’t so much about Mobley himself, but what it says about the American media. Money quote: “Heard from a very reliable source close to the folks who debriefed Mobely that the dude’s a] bat shit crazy; and b] he's going to die here.” #4. #3. Money quote: “The Mexican government is now paying some $25m for UAVs from Israel. #2. #1. Money quote: “God knows how many years were wasted chasing the sob in the tribal belt.”
The new totalitarianism of surveillance technology | Naomi Wolf A software engineer in my Facebook community wrote recently about his outrage that when he visited Disneyland, and went on a ride, the theme park offered him the photo of himself and his girlfriend to buy – with his credit card information already linked to it. He noted that he had never entered his name or information into anything at the theme park, or indicated that he wanted a photo, or alerted the humans at the ride to who he and his girlfriend were – so, he said, based on his professional experience, the system had to be using facial recognition technology. He had never signed an agreement allowing them to do so, and he declared that this use was illegal. He also claimed that Disney had recently shared data from facial-recognition technology with the United States military. Yes, I know: it sounds like a paranoid rant. Except that it turned out to be true.
Forget PRISM: FAIRVIEW is the NSA's project to "own the Internet" According to Thomas Drake, a former National Security Agency senior executive who blew the whistle on the agency’s reckless spending and spying in 2006, a previously unknown NSA surveillance program known as FAIRVIEW aims to “own the Internet.” Last month, former NSA contractor Edward Snowden leaked a series of PowerPoint slides to the Washington Post and the Guardian revealing that the agency was engaged in a large-scale Internet surveillance program, dubbed PRISM, that collects Americans’ chats, emails, photos, and videos. One of the slides, only later released by the two papers, made reference to a group of additional “upstream” collection programs, including two named FAIRVIEW and BLARNEY, but gave no further details about their function. Drake, who was prosecuted under the Espionage Act for his whistleblowing, explained the upstream programs to the Daily Dot. “Upstream means you get inside the system before it’s in the Internet. Illustration by Fernando Alfonso III
Privacy and Security Fanatic: Rise of the AI Overlord: Machines monitor, automatically detect suspicious behavior When it comes to monitoring CCTV video feeds for suspicious activity, the human brain reportedly overlooks 45% of all activity after 12 minutes. After 22 minutes, the human brain overlooks 95% of all activity. But what if all the 45 - 60 million eye-in-the-sky cameras were connected to computers with artificial intelligence . . . computers with an extraordinary AI brain that can see, learn, get smarter with time, and make decisions on what behavior recognition threats to report in real-time? While TrapWire seems to use "behavioral recognition" to analyze video and camera feeds, a "video camera on its own is dumb." Most video analytics are rule-based logic systems that continually need the rules redefined, can give hundreds of false-alarm alerts, and even miss true threats in real-time. "We are seeing more and more surveillance cameras installed everywhere, and increasingly they are being networked together.