Irans News ( Iran is under investigation for " Cyber Attacks " on U.S Banks )

Iranian regime behind cyber attacks on the U.S. banks

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Published on Monday, 20 May 2013 08:14

 

WASHINGTON — The series of cyber attacks that repeatedly knocked major US banking websites offline in the past nine months had been more powerful than the public realised, government officials and security experts told the Reuters Cybersecurity Summit on Friday.
Members of congressional intelligence committees said the attacks were sponsored by Iran and showed its growing capability in cyberspace. US banks, internet service providers and security companies "have had trouble keeping up with the recent DDoS attacks that have had the sophistication and level of resources that a nation-state entity like Iran can devote to them", House intelligence committee chairman Mike Rogers says.
"As a result, many key parts of our telecommunications and financial services infrastructure have been stressed to a dangerous level."
In three waves of attacks since September, consumers have reported inability to conduct online transactions at more than a dozen banks, including Wells Fargo and Citigroup.

Virginia Beach ( Two FBI agents from a counterterrorism unit based in Northern Virginia were killed )

By Martin Weil,

Martin Weil

May 19, 2013 10:27 PM EDT

The Washington Post

Sunday, May 19, 3:27 PME-mail the writer

Two FBI agents from an elite counterterrorism unit based in Northern Virginia were killed Friday during a training exercise in the Virginia Beach area, the FBI said Sunday.
The agents were part of the FBI’s Hostage Rescue Team, which is part of the Critical Incident Response Group, and is based at Quantico.

The agents were identified as Christopher Lorek, 41, and Stephen Shaw, 40. The FBI said the incident occurred off the coast of Virginia Beach, but gave no further details. An FBI spokeswoman in the Virginia Beach area said the deaths did not involve gunfire.

The FBI said in a statement that the cause of the incident was “under review.”
The deaths brought to at least four the number of agents killed during Hostage Rescue Team training since the group was established in 1983 as a national counterterrorist unit.
TV station WAVY, based in the Tidewater/Hampton Roads area, quoted a Navy spokesman as saying that the accident happened aboard a Military Sealift Command ship that the FBI had leased for training.
At the Sealift Command headquarters in Washington, inquiries were referred Sunday night to the FBI. An FBI spokeswoman said Sunday night that the bureau had released no information beyond the statement posted on its website.
A Virginia Beach police spokeswoman said she had no information about the incident. An investigator in the state medical examiner’s office for the Tidewater District said no cause of death could be obtained before Monday.
The two agents were brought by helicopter Friday to Sentara Norfolk General Hospital, the highest-level trauma center for the area, a spokesman for Sentara Healthcare said. He could provide no information about their treatment or injuries.
Lorek joined the FBI in 1996, the bureau said, and is survived by his wife and two daughters, ages 11 and 8.
Shaw, who joined the FBI in 2005, is survived by his wife, a 3-year-old daughter and a 1-year-old son.
FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III issued a statement mourning the loss of “two brave and courageous men.” Like the others on the hostage rescue team, he said, they accepted “the highest risk each and every day,” whether on missions or in training.
“Our hearts are with their wives, children, and other loved ones who feel their loss most deeply. And they will always be part of the FBI family,” Mueller said.
According to the FBI Web site, the rescue team responds to the “most complex and urgent FBI cases in the United States and abroad.
The team is based at the FBI Academy in Quantico, which is on the Marine Corps base there, about 40 miles south of Washington.
A 2006 federal report described a key capability of the hostage rescue team as the capacity to “fast-rope,” in which an assault team rappels from a helicopter. The report said the technique is particularly useful in assaulting a maritime target because it allows the FBI to place a team aboard a ship quickly.
Fast-roping was described as an advanced skill requiring “great coordination’’ between helicopter pilots and the assault teams.
The FBI Web site indicated that the unit places great emphasis on “extensive, continuous” training.
The first of the two previous deaths to occur in rescue team training came in April 1986, less than three years after the unit was established. James K. McAllister died after falling from a helicopter during training at the FBI Academy, according to the bureau.
According to the bureau’s Web site, Gregory J. Rahoi, a supervisory special agent, was accidentally shot and fatally wounded Dec. 6, 2006, at Fort A.P. Hill, in Virginia’s Caroline County. Rahoi was killed during a live-fire training exercise intended to prepare hostage rescue-team personnel for deployments to Iraq.

MEXICO City ( 2 Waiters from Palace Club - Charged with Killing Malcolm X's Grandson )

Mexican Judge Orders Trial for Suspects in Killing of Malcolm X’s Grandson

MEXICO CITY – A Mexican judge has ordered the two waiters accused of killing Malcolm Shabazz, the grandson of U.S. political activist Malcolm X, to stand trial, the District Attorney’s Office said.

David Hernandez Cruz and Manuel Alejandro Perez, both 24, will be tried on homicide and robbery charges under a ruling issued Saturday by Judge Hector Palomares, the DA’s office said.

Attorneys for the two suspects, who worked as waiters at The Palace Club on the Plaza Garibaldi, will have three days to appeal the ruling.

District Attorney Rodolfo Fernando Rios said last Monday that Hernandez Cruz and Perez had been arrested for the killing.

The two suspects and two other men allegedly beat Shabazz in the early morning hours of May 9 after he refused to pay a $1,200 bar tab, the DA said.

The 29-year-old Shabazz died a few hours later at a hospital emergency room “as a result of the trauma from being beaten with a large blunt object,” Rios said.

Investigators determined that Shabazz arrived in Mexico City from Tijuana, a border city in northwestern Mexico, along with a person whose identity is not being disclosed because they are considered a victim, Rios said.

Shabazz’s companion, a Mexican, was robbed and threatened but managed to get out of the bar alive, DA’s office spokesmen said.

Malcolm’s mother, Qubilah Shabazz, was one of six daughters of Malcolm X and his wife, Betty Shabazz.

Qubilah was only 4 when she witnessed her father’s 1965 assassination in New York.

In August 1997, the then-12-year-old Malcolm Shabazz was sentenced to 18 months in juvenile detention for starting a fire that resulted in the death of grandmother Betty Shabazz.

Syria ( ' Rebels ' Throw postal workers off roof - Graphic content ) Human rights / Human wrongs

SYRIA: Free Syrian Army ‘rebels’ are filmed throwing postal workers off a roof, while the cheering crowd is heard chanting “Allahu Akbar.“

This is disturbing and Graphic , human rights and human wrongs ?

Iran News ( Two men have been hanged in Evin Prison for being " Enemies of God " ) Wow

Two prisoners were hanged in Evin prison

Posted on: 19th May, 2013

 

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HRANA News Agency – Mohammad Heydari and Kourosh Ahmadi have been hanged in Evin prison on charge of enmity against the God.

Mohammad Heydari and Kourosh Ahmadi, the two political prisoners who were known as the enemies of the God and sentenced to death by the revolutionary court, were hanged.

Fars News Agency claimed in his report that these two prisoners had relationship with the enemy governments and they were spying against the interests of the Islamic Republic.

This report adds that after the investigations were finished, the case was sent to the Tehran revolutionary court and after the trial they were known as the enemies of the God and sentenced to death. The sentences were confirmed by the Supreme Court.

No independent source confirms these claims and there is no news about their arrest and trial process.

Australia ( Gene Simmons - KISS Rock band -sparked outrage with anti-Muslim comments )

 Legendary rock star, Gene Simmons of KISS, in Australia, calls Muslims “vile”

Legendary rock legend, Gene Simmons, sparked outrage in Australia earlier this month when he made anti-Muslim comments on a Melbourne radio station. ”This is a vile culture and if you think for a second that it’s willing to just live in the sands of God’s armpit you’ve got another thing coming,” the Israeli-born musician said on Melbourne’s 3AW radio.

The KISS bassist, who was in Australia on tour, continued on his anti-Muslim rant for over a minute stating that dogs are treated better than Muslim women, and insinuating that the West was under threat.

“Your dog, however, can walk side by side, your dog is allowed to have its own dog house… you can send your dog to school to learn tricks, sit, beg, do all that stuff – none of the women have that advantage,” Simmons stated.

Simmons said that the United Nations approach was not effective, suggesting that the west has to “speak softly and carry a big stick.”

DOG News ( Florida man shot by his dog - No charges to be filed )

A Florida man was shot and wounded over the weekend by his dog, who walked away without charges, police said.
Gregory Dale Lanier, 35, of Frostproof, Fla., told police Saturday that he and his dog were in their truck in nearby Sebring when the dog kicked a gun that was on the truck’s floor, the Highlands Tribune newspaper reported.
The gun went off, shooting Lanier in the leg, Sebring police said.
Lanier wasn’t seriously injured, said Sebring Police Cmdr. Steve Carr, who actually said police didn’t arrest the dog because the investigation was pending, the Tribune reported.
He also said he had never heard of a similar case.
According to the police report, Lanier said he was driving along State Road 17 North when the dog kicked “the unloaded .380 pistol.” It went on to say that Lanier was “surprised” to learn not only that the gun was loaded, but also that it was actually a 9mm weapon, not a .380.