WikiLeaks Uncovered Secret Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP), Incoming Threat For Internet

WikiLeaks Uncovered Secret Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP), Incoming Threat For Internet 

After SOPA, PIPA & ACTA now the Internet is about to face another ferocious challenge named Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP). I am sure that many of you are unaware of this TPP, as it is still on process, but WikiLeaks have uncovered ad released secret negotiated draft text for the entire TPP (Trans-Pacific Partnership) which is a multilateral free-trade treaty currently being negotiated in secret by 12 Pacific Rim nations. The current TPP negotiation member states are the United States, Japan, Mexico, Canada, Australia, Malaysia, Chile, Singapore, Peru, Vietnam, New Zealand and Brunei. "This Trans Pacific “Partnership” is really, really bad News. #WikiLeaks" -said the twitter feed of WikiLeaks. From the leaked draft we came to know that  TPP will take time for all the corporate rigging in this lengthy document to be understood, but already it is evident that Internet freedom will be curtailed, access to health care will become more expensive and access to information will be undermined. In short the more you know about the odious Trans-Pacific Partnership, the less you’ll like it. It’s made for corporate intellectual property and profits. According to WikiLeaks official website -"The TPP is the largest-ever economic treaty, encompassing nations representing more than 40 per cent of the world’s GDP. The WikiLeaks release of the text comes ahead of the decisive TPP Chief Negotiators summit in Salt Lake City, Utah, on 19-24 November 2013. The chapter published by WikiLeaks is perhaps the most controversial chapter of the TPP due to its wide-ranging effects on medicines, publishers, internet services, civil liberties and biological patents. Significantly, the released text includes the negotiation positions and disagreements between all 12 prospective member states." 

In the words of WikiLeaks’ Editor-in-Chief Julian Assange, “If instituted, the TPP’s IP regime would trample over individual rights and free expression, as well as ride roughshod over the intellectual and creative commons. If you read, write, publish, think, listen, dance, sing or invent; if you farm or consume food; if you’re ill now or might one day be ill, the TPP has you in its crosshairs.” To download the entire TPP (Trans-Pacific Partnership) draft click here. 

While talking about Jullian Assange and WikiLeaks, and this sensational leak of TPP, I would like to give you reminder that in this year we got several leaks from WikiLeaks, among them -'Detainee Policies' containing more than 100 classified or otherwise restricted files from the United States Department of Defense covering the rules and procedures for detainees in U.S. military custody. SpyFiles, GI Files (Global Intelligence Files & Five Million E-mails From Stratfor) & The Syria Files Containing 2.5 Million Emails of Syrian Politicians, Govt, Ministries & Companies. 

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Anonymous Targeted Mexican Defense, Navy & Ministry Websites

Anonymous Targeted Mexican Defense, Navy & Ministry Websites 

The whole cyber world can be the witness of bitter relation between hacker collective group Anonymous and the Mexican government. We those who used to observe the cyber domain have already seen several protest campaign came from Anonymous against Mexico, whether it was the Pope or Mexican Drug Cartels or Mexican Govt. sponsored bus organization. Here again the same thing get repeated when the infamous Anonymous targeted  several web sites of Mexico’s defense and navy departments. 

The name of the group "Anonymous Mexico" was visible on the website in front of a black background, with phrases from the manifesto of the Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN). The group MexicanH Team, which identified itself as part of Anonymous Mexico, said on Twitter that it had hacked and "defaced" the ministry website. In another Twitter account, the group Anonymous Hispano, which uses the handle @anonophispano, claimed that "the entire content" of the defense ministry server was hacked and that it will be "released soon." 

“Brothers and sisters, let’s raise our voices for a Mexico free of corruption, free of crime,” the message said. “Let’s show the world that were are one, we are everyone. We are anonymous. We are legion. We don’t forgive. We don’t forget. Wait for us!” -added by the hacker. 

In response of hacking, the Defense Ministry responded that its website was “momentarily out of service” but did not explain why and did not refer to the hacking claim. But on the other hand the Mexican Navy accommodated the cyber attack and said that- its web site was targeted only by a simple denial-of-service, attack and that no sensitive information was compromised. Later Sedena issued a statement hours later saying that while its Web site was indeed temporarily down, but the department’s internal information and communication systems were “functioning with complete normality.” And After couple of hours all the services and website came back live with proper functionality. 

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Former Anonymous Spokesman Barrett Brown Arrested in Texas

Former Anonymous Spokesman Barrett Brown Arrested in Texas After Threatening FBI Agent

Barrett Brown, former spokesman and leader of infamous hacker collective Anonymous was arrested by authorities in Dallas. This arrest took place on Wednesday just hours after he posted a YouTube video in which he appeared to threaten an FBI agent for allegedly harassing his mother. Brown was arrested shortly before 11 p.m. and turned over to FBI custody, according to Carmen Castro, a spokeswoman for the Dallas County Sheriff’s Office. Castro could not say what he had been charged with. Brown's attorney, Jay Leiderman, told the press that his client was charged with making threats to a federal agent.  

In immediate response Anonymous on Thursday,  released a statement on Pastie detailing what it claimed were credit card numbers, addresses and phone numbers of 13 federal government employees. On Twitter, the hacker group said the release of the information was in retaliation for Brown's arrest, calling him “our controversial hated/loved friend.”  But it seems that, these protest cant make any difference to Barrett Brown's future. We would like to remind you that in middle of last year Brown officially broke all his attachment with Anonymous. But still he has been under the eye of law enforcement for some time and In March, Brown’s home was raided by the FBI, which confiscated his laptop, when authorities revealed that Hector Xavier Monsegur was the person behind Sabu, the colorful leader of LulzSecurity, an offshoot of Anonymous. Brown has been faulted by many members of Anonymous for using his real name and for being quoted as a representative of the group, which prides itself on being loosely knit and having no clear leaders. He is best known for threatening to hack into the computers of the Zetas, one of Mexico's deadly drug trafficking cartels. Brown did not immediately return a message left on his cell phone on Thursday. Several websites posted what they said was video of Brown conducting a web chat as officers arrived, yelling "get your hands up!"

-Source (CNBC & Huffington Post)

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Hacktivist Group Anonymous Targeted Pope in Mexico

Hacktivist Group Anonymous Targeted Pope in Mexico 

After Vatican now Anonymous targeted the Mexico Pope. The hacker group in Mexico crashed at least two of the websites for Pope Benedict XVI’s upcoming visit to Mexico on Thursday, claiming the papal visit is a political move to support the conservative National Action party.

The site contained information on the pope’s planned activities starting Friday in the north-central state of Guanajuato, which is governed by President Felipe Calderon’s National Action Party, or PAN. The Anonymous IberoAmerica website, which has been a channel of communication for such hacker “ops” in the past, said the site crashes were the result of Anonymous operations with names such “Pharisee” and “freeloader.”
Anonymous Mexico said in a video posted on social media sites that the pope’s visit will cost Mexicans money that could be better spent on the poor, and is meant to support the PAN in the July 1 presidential election. PAN candidate Josefina Vazquez Mota is trailing front-runner Enrique Pena Nieto of the Institutional Revolutionary Party by at least 10 percentage points in most polls on the race. The official campaign season starts at the end of this month. The pope’s “visit comes precisely at the start of the electoral campaigns,” said the faceless Anonymous figure in the video. “The PAN will take this as a political weapon to win the votes of millions of Catholics in Mexico.”

Earlier this month Anonymous take responsibility of engaging cyber attack on Vatican official website & Vatican Radio System. The hacker group said - "This attack is not against the Christian religion or the faithful around the world but against the corrupt Roman Apostolic Church," said the statement, posted on the Italian-language version of the Anonymous website.

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Israel Vows To Treat Hackers Like Terrorists

Few days ago Group-XP, A hacker group from Saudi Arabia has stolen more than 400K Israeli Credit Cards. 0xOmar a hacker from Group-XP told "We decided to give the world a new year gift". Now Govt. is taking it very seriously. Israel has said that it will respond to cyber-attacks the same way it responds to violent terrorist acts. A hacker named OxOmar has claimed responsibility for the hack and information leak. The man claims to be from Saudi Arabia, but reports suggest that OxOmar (Omar Habib) may be a 19-year-old living in Mexico. Credit card companies say at least 6,000 valid cards have been exposed.

Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon told Such cyber-attacks are "a breach of sovereignty comparable to a terrorist operation, and must be treated as such. Israel has active capabilities for striking at those who are trying to harm it, and no agency or hacker will be immune from retaliatory action,".

 “The US has announced that any attack on its cybernetic space would be considered a declaration of war, and that it would go as far as firing missiles to respond to such an attack. This is a good criterion for us all,” the deputy FM added later.

“If a stupid student thinks he can find me (within) 8 hours of work, what will Mossad do? But I'm still here and no one can find me, make sure, no worries,” said 0xOmar of Group-XP.

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Demand of Anonymous To Mexican Govt. & Bus Companies (#OpRoadSafe)

'Hacktivist' Anonymous has threatened the Mexican Government and local bus companies. According to a YouTube video Anonymous released fives demands in-front of the Mexican Government, if those demands not get fulfilled then Anon has planned massive cyber attack to Mexican government and bus companies on the December 10th under the banner of Op Carreteras Seguras (#OpRoadSafe)

Anonymous launched its latest digital campaign in an effort to publicize the fact that the Mexican government and bus companies are failing to stop kidnappings, rapes and robberies of passengers on the country’s lawless highways. Indeed, a mass grave containing 293 bodies was recently discovered in San Fernando, Tamauilpas just 90 miles south of the Rio Grande Valley. 

Authorities believe the victims were bus passengers abducted and murdered by members of the Zetas drug cartel.

Although dozens were arrested after the horrifying discovery, Anonymous says similar crimes continue in Tamaulipas and throughout Mexico, as only a minority of citizens travel by airplane, while the rest of the country is at the mercy of local bus companies and shoddy security. 

Five Demands of Anonymous:-

1. All passenger buses travel on more secure tolls roads.
2. All buses should be equipped with GPS devices.
3. Live, remote cameras be installed on all buses.
4. Armed, plain clothes "bus marshals" travel on passenger buses.
5. Those arrested in the context of Mexico's ongoing drug war should be treated as prisoners under the guidelines of the Geneva Convention.

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#OpCartel Anonymous Takes on Mexican Drug Cartels

It seems that Anonymous supporter in Mexico was kidnapped by a Mexican drug cartel, and well, this isn’t sitting too well with the larger Anonymous group as a whole. Members of the hacktivist group Anonymous on Monday appeared to call off an attack, dubbed "OpCartel," aimed at taking down Mexican cartels.
"Anonymous cancels crackdown on Mexican drug cartel," tweeted Sm0k34n0n. "We cannot risk our partners."

But a Twitter post from LulzSec leader Sabu in direct reply to Sm0k34n0n appeared to dismiss the cancellation, or at least imply that there would be future anti-cartel efforts. "Thanks for pushing the op, but now that you've cleaned your hands of it--move on with your life," said Sabu. In another post, he said that "#OpCartel is very much alive and like I said to others in private our war is on corruption on both sides of the spectrum," referring to the war on drugs including both the Drug Enforcement Administration as well as the Mexican cartels.
In fact Anonymous has let it be known that if they Zetas Cartel doesn’t release their compatriot the hackavist group will start publishing the names, address, and other personal information of all the Zetas Cartel members as well as politicians, cops, and military members who are bought and paid for by the cartel.
They say everyone from taxi drivers to businesses that fronts for the cartel will be revealed on the web and as the spokesman for the group says in a recently posted Spanish speaking video – it won’t be hard as we already know who they are and where they are located. As Mike Vigil, a retired head of international operations for the DEA said following this announcement – the Zetas Cartel needs to take Anonymous seriously because by publishing the names they identify the Zetas Cartel members to rivals and they will go after them. It’ll be interesting to see if anything really will come of this as one group with no guns but the power of the web takes on some of the nastiest people on the planet to carry a gun, or three.

Spanish Video Presentation By Anon:-

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WikiLeaks supporter sues DHS over laptop seizure

A prominent WikiLeaks supporter is suing the U.S. 

government for unlawfully seizing and copying the contents of 

his laptop at an international airport after returning from 

Mexico.

"The computer is like an extension of my mind," David House 

told the WaPost.

"It is my notes, my writing, locations I've been."



House - co-founder of a Bradley Manningadvocacy group - said he was targeted by the DHS because of his support for the soldier, who stands accused of stealing and disseminating classified information.

"All these people working for the Manning Support Network, all of a sudden their names are in the open, and that is most worrisome."



Indeed, the laptop - which was held for a total of 49 days - contained personal/work e-mails, passwords, lists of potential donors and confidential messages from the Bradley Manning Support Network.



The American Civil Liberties Union has expressed concern over the seizure, as it believes the government lacked a crime and a "border-related" justification to search House's laptop which contained a significant amount of personal data. 



David Cole, a law professor at George Washington University, seemed to concur with ACLU's assessment.

"[If the government seized the laptop not for] valid customs law enforcement purposes, but rather to get intelligence about protected political associations or as a way of avoiding the requirements of criminal law searches, then it seems to me they're abusing the border search exception for purposes it was never designed to serve."

But Paul Rosenzweig, a former senior DHS policy official, emphasized the Supreme Court had previously ruled that "searches made at the border... are reasonable simply by virtue of the fact that they occur at the border."

"It's absolutely clear that if you were carrying around your Rolodex in your briefcase across the border, the government can take it, photocopy it and give it back to you without probable cause or a reasonable suspicion," he added.

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McAfee and CSIS report reveals the vulnerability of cyber attacks

A report prepared by antivirus company McAfee and the Center for Strategic and International Studies(CSIS), has brought to light the vulnerability of cyberattacks on power grids, oil, gas and water.

The report, called In the Dark: Crucial Industries Confront Cyberattacks, is a follow up to 2010’sreport, In the Crossfire: Critical Infrastructure in the Age of Cyberwar. Commissioned by McAfee and produced by CSIS, the report reveals the survey results which were undertaken in 14 countries. It found out that of the 200 IT security executives of critical electricity infrastructure enterprises, 40 per cent believed that their industry is vulnerable, while 30 per cent believed their companies are not well protected from cyberattacks. More than 40 per cent fear a major cyber attack by 2011.

“We found that the adoption of security measures in important civilian industries badly trailed the increase in threats over the last year,” said Stewart Baker, who led the study for CSIS. In addition to that, the press release byMcAfee quotes Jim Woolsey, former United States Director of Central Intelligence, “Ninety to 95 percent of the people working on the smart grid are not concerned about security and only see it as a last box they have to check.” It also adds that “as the energy sector increased its adoption of securitytechnologies by only a single percentage point (51 percent), and oil and gas industries increased only by three percentage points (48 percent).”

Other findings of the report include the fact that a few countries like Brazil, France and Mexico have lesser security measures than their counterparts China, Italy and Japan. McAfee’s press release reveals, that “India and Mexico have a high rate of extortion attempts; 60 to 80 percent of executives surveyed in these countries reported extortion attempts.” According to the report, while 81 per cent of respondents faced DDoS service attacks, more than 50 per cent of them had already faced government attacks.

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