THREAT MATRIX 2012 #1

Freepers Who Care | JANUARY 1, 2012 | TM CREW

[MestaMachine]

~2003~THREAT MATRIX~2012~

LAST 72 71 SEVENTY 69 68 67 66 65 64 63 62 61 SIXTY

59 58 57 56 55 54 53 52 51 FIFTY 49 48 47 46 45 44 43 42 41 FORTY

39 38 37 36 35 34 33 32 31 THIRTY 29 28 27 26 25 24 23 22 21 TWENTY

19 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 TEN 09 08 07 06 05 04 03 02 ONE

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[Rushmore Rocks]

Meant to ping you also to my post above.

[LucyT]

Keep us posted, please.

(I’m in the hinterlands without tee-vee.)

[Velveeta]

Cindy has details here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2867228/posts

[Domestic Church]

There was some report on the radio news today about a vast number in the millions of credit card numbers and data and the 3 digit security #s being taken. Has anyone come across this news story?

[Rushmore Rocks]

Just saw on FoxNews.com the following header.....

“Al Qaeda Mystery Ad Has Authorities on Alert”

[Velveeta]

I should have said post #17 on Cindy’s link coupled with forums going dark. Also coming up on 1st anniversary of UBL’s death.

[Rushmore Rocks]

ping to 425

[Rushmore Rocks]

Anniversary of Bin Laden’s death. I hadn’t thought about that.

Thanks.

[LucyT]

MasterCard and Visa Data Theft Brings Concern To A Wide Profile of Card Holders

The breach of 10 million credit card holders’ data is believed to be the largest in history. The profile of card holders reveals that it also may cut across income brackets.

More:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/prospernow/2012/04/02/mastercard-and-visa-data-theft-brings-concern-to-a-wide-profile-of-card-holders/

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Global Payments credit-card data breach: How big is the theft?

The Global Payments breach is the largest known credit-card theft from a business or financial institution in the past two years. Last year, data from some 3.4 million credit cards were grabbed.

By Mark Clayton, Staff writer / April 2, 2012

(Excerpted)

Among data theft worldwide last year, there were 855 incidents with 174 million compromised records, according to the Verizon study, which was conducted by Verizon’s RISK Team and included data from Australian, Dutch, and Irish police as well as the US Secret Service. In the report last year, the number of compromised records came in at an all-time low – 4 million.

Most payment-card thefts, the Verizon study found, are from small businesses, with only about 5 percent last year from large organizations. More than three-quarters of the breaches involved losses of fewer than 10,000 records. Just seven breaches involved more than 1 million records each.

“The criminal community has effectively been deterred from engaging in high-profile activity,” Verizon’s 2011 study found. “Pulling off a huge heist might achieve fame and fortune, but it also attracts a lot of unwanted attention.”

The Global Payments cybertheft falls squarely in the Verizon report’s “mega-breach” category. But it’s counter to the overall trend in which criminals targeting payment cards have largely shifted from big to small businesses to dodge law enforcement.

One notable mega-breach of a card processor occurred in 2008 against Heartland Payment Systems, which netted thieves data on more than 100 million cards. For that crime, hacker Albert Gonzalez was sentenced in 2010 to 20 years in prison.

It’s not certain yet what methods were used to snatch credit-card numbers from Global Payments, although early reports indicated a possible link to a New York City street gang and possibly to parking garages in the city, according to Brian Krebs, the cybersecurity blogger who first broke the story last Friday.

“In an alert sent to card-issuing banks ... [Visa and MasterCard] said the window of vulnerability for the breached processor (at that time unnamed) was between Jan. 21, 2012 and Feb. 25, 2012,” Mr. Krebs reported on his website. The data stolen included sufficient information for the thieves to counterfeit new cards, he said.

More:

http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/2012/0402/Global-Payments-credit-card-data-breach-How-big-is-the-theft

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1.5 Million Credit Card Numbers Stolen

By Ross Kaminsky on 4.2.12 @ 11:35AM

The computer systems of a major credit card payment processing company called Global Payments have been hacked, reportedly compromising information on up to 1.5 million credit card account numbers.

Two of my credit cards - (one MasterCard and one American Express) - are among the numbers stolen, as proven by Amex and Citibank calling me to verify charges on my cards (2 through Yahoo, 1 to Google AdWords, and 1 to EasyJet) which I did not make. Those cards have been canceled.

More:

http://spectator.org/blog/2012/04/02/15-million-credit-card-numbers

[Myrddin]

I should have said post #17 on Cindy’s link coupled with forums going dark. Also coming up on 1st anniversary of UBL’s death.

Have they finally learned the value of OPSEC? Going dark is in itself a red flag. Are we checking for clean shaven ME men hanging out it strip clubs? Any ME street vendors missing? Good Friday, Passover and Easter weekend ahead.

[LucyT]

Photo from 1999:

[LucyT]

Oh, sorry.

Photo from 2009.

[Rushmore Rocks]

Now a couple of articles on Drudge (right hand side of form).

[MestaMachine]

Walked in and caught this report as well. Said something like 9/11 is going to happen all over again. NYPD is taking it very seriously. The image looked like a painting.
Coincidence that doj is giving NYPD such a hard time over muslim surveillance?
oscumma is probably drooling over the prospect.

It looks like all hell is about to break in a few places in Europe too.

Sorry I haven’t been keeping up so well the last few weeks. A lot of stuff going on.

[piasa]

And how freaking stupid are THEY for only ‘suspecting’ that the 19 SAUDIS who pulled off 9/11 MIGHT have ties to the freaking SAUDIS??

Not all 19 hijackers were Saudis in Sept. 2001, and of those that were, not one could be described as a Saudi loyalist.

One of the 19 hijackers was an Egyptian named Mohammed Atta who was a member of the Egyptian Islamic Jihad; he had links to Syrian MB. He, not some Saudi, was the leader of the 9/11 hijackers.

In fact, the Germany-based cell from which Atta emerged consisted of a Yemeni, 2 Moroccans, 2 Syrians (besides Atta), a half-breed German/Moroccan, an Indonesian, an apparent Sudanese, a Malaysian, and some others. Guess What? Apparently no Saudis.

Another 9/11 hijacker, Marwan al Shehhi, was not a Saudi, he was born in the UAE.

Another 9/11 hijacker, Ziad Jarrah, was Lebanese.

The mastermind of the plot was KSM, a Kuwaiti and a member of the Muslim Brotherhood. Damn Kuwait! -Oh, wait, he may have been born in Kuwait but his parents were Pakistanis. He was about as "Kuwaiti" as Obama is American.

Osama bin Laden was born in Saudi Arabia of a Syrian mother and a Yemeni father. In the tribalistic regions of the Middle East, unlike what is the norm in our country, one's tribe and family have far more influence on your belief system than a nationality that was created by foreigners when they marked out boundaries without regard to tribal relations. Last I heard there were 14 Saudis aboard, not 19. Twelve of the Saudi citizens who hijacked planes on September 11, 2001 were not typical Saudis but were instead from the tribal regions of Saudi Arabia's southwest- in other words, more closely affiliated with YEMEN's tribes than to the more distant government of Saudi Arabia. This should not come as a surprise given OBL's partial Yemeni ancestry.

This is why al Qaeda doesn't have much of a problem finding "Saudis" to bomb Saudi targets or to use overseas. The southwestern part of Saudi Arabia is heavily influenced by the goings on of Yemeni tribesmen across the border. AQ's comfort zone is more in line with rebellious tribesmen than government and this is why AQ set up shop in Yemen with Anwar al Awlaki. OBL's turn towards islamic radicalism took place after he'd been quite the womanizer and drinker in L ebanon in the 1970s. He and his new wife went to the US where he met Azzam. OBL's former mentor and MAK cofounder Azzam was a Palestinian and a member of Arafat's PLO- not a Saudi. AQ came into existance after Azzam was killed.

That lawsuit story with former Senator Graham has been repeated endlessly for years and it's pretty much nothing but follow-the-money- the lawyers can't get Ahmadinjad's Iran or Saddam's Iraq or Tourabi's Sudan to pay up so they are looking for money from a source more likely to pay them off.

The fact is Saudi Arabia pulled OBL's citizenship years before 9/11, even before anyone on this side of the Atlantic thought OBL was a big deal, because the government of Saudi Arabia viewed him as a threat to itself. The fact is, OBL's family was harbored by Iran. The fact is, AQ is led now by an EGYPTIAN of Islamic Jihad... the other half of OBL's original dynamic duo, and not by a Saudi.

So no, 9/11 was not a "Saudi operation." Were Saudis involved? Sure. It might be easier to list what nationalities were not involved.

[WestCoastGal]

I saw it too - I had CNN on because of the bad weather.

I wish this site wasn’t so slow, I would like to keep up with this again. Ping me if any other news pops

[thouworm]

Most useful info I have seen on this story (not because of its conclusion, but for the other info it contains). I would like to post in it's entirety, but am assuming NYT blog falls under same copyright as NYT.

Experts Say Qaeda Image Unlikely to Be Real Warning of Attack

[LucyT]

Pinging TM & Ping List; helping MestaMachine, - and catching up.

Thanks, thouworm.

[LucyT]

Domestic terrorism:

Barack 0bama Was A Foreign Student – American Media Threatened Into Silence

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2867831/posts

[rodguy911]

Wow thanks for that MM a ton of stuff there!!