STUXNET CYBER FALSE FLAG LAUNCHED DURING THE PLANNED CYBER STORM MILITARY DRILL

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"a proof of concept, initiated by an academic group"



I'll say!

A proof of the concept of wholesale insanity by the world's leading technocrats and cyberneticists!

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Is Stuxnet an Israeli-invented attack against Iran?
Ellen Messmer
30.09.2010 kl 22:11 | Network World (US)

Was Stuxnet, a sophisticated piece of malware designed to attack industrial control systems (ICS), secretly invented by Israel to attack Iran's industrial controls systems?

Was Stuxnet, a sophisticated piece of malware designed to attack industrial control systems (ICS), secretly invented by Israel to attack Iran's industrial controls systems?

Stuxnet code hints at possible Israeli origin, researcher says

Though the idea is pure conjecture at this point, some odd technical design in Stuxnet and how it works, as discovered by Symantec researchers, suggests it might be possible for someone to think that Jewish enemies of Iran, and Israel would be the obvious country to speculate about in this regard, as being behind Stuxnet.

Stuxnet clearly appears to be a cyberwar-grade piece of malware designed to sabotage an enemy's energy-distribution resources — but the Symantec report is careful not to name names, but just cite some peculiar clues that may be buried in Stuxnet code.

The Symantec report "W.32 Stuxnet Dossier" is about the malware known about since about mid-June that has made many working in the energy-distribution business very nervous. Because it's been clear it's out to get ICS by exploiting vulnerabilities in Windows-based computers, among other means.

In Symantec's extensive analysis of the Stuxnet code, which is being published tomorrow, Symantec says "Stuxnet is a threat targeting a specific industrial control system in Iran, such as a gas pipeline or power plant. The ultimate goal of Stuxnet is to sabotage that facility by reprogramming programmable logic controllers to operate as attackers intend them to, most likely out of their specified boundaries."

Stuxnet, a topic of fascination for weeks since it is so sophisticated and apparently not intended to perform the usual malware stunts, is increasingly regarded as cyberwar-caliber malware that one state might use against another to disable energy-distribution systems. Iran this week acknowledged it has been hit by Stuxnet.

The Symantec report is careful not to name Israel as Stuxnet's creator in any way. But the report does point to a specific malware loading function that Stuxnet uses as part of its larger command-and-control structure that looks for an infection marker and "checks that the configuration data is valid, after that it checks the value 'NTVDM TRACE' in the following registry key," says the Symantec report. "If this value is equal to 19790509, the threat will exit. This is thought to be an infection marker or a 'don’t infect' marker. If this is set correctly, infection will not occur. The value appears to be the date May, 9, 1979."

In its search for some meaning to attach to this, Symantec says it has found a Wikipedia reference to Habib Elghanian, "who was executed by a firing squad in Tehran, sending shock waves through the closely knit Iranian-Jewish community. He was the first Jew and one of the first civilians to be executed by the new Islamic government. This prompted the mass exodus of the once 100,000-member strong Jewish community of Iran which continues to this day."

In citing this reference to Elghanian, however, Symantec immediately "cautions readers on drawing any attribution conclusions. Attackers would have the natural desire to implicate any party." That means the creators of Stuxnet might be leaving a few false clues to make the world think Israel created it while the truth might lie elsewhere. Nothing's known for sure.

In the report, Symantec goes no further in its statements on this issue. And in sticking to sheer technical detail, Symantec notes that programmable logic controllers "are often programmed from Windows computers not connected to the Internet or even the internal network."

In addition, the PLCs themselves are unlikely to be connected to the Internet, the report says. And in presenting what it acknowledges is a "possible attack scenario" that is "speculative," Symantec notes, "As each ICS is quite custom, the attackers will first need design documents. These design documents may have been stolen by an insider or even retrieved by an early version of Stuxnet or other malicious binary."

How successful has Stuxnet been in spreading? As of Sept. 29, 2010, there have been about 100,000 infected hosts, according to Symantec's estimate,. About 60% of these are in Iran, with the remaining in Indonesia, India and Azerbaijan, with the rest of the world seeing only small numbers.

"On August 22, we observed that Iran was no longer reporting new infections," says Symantec. "This was most likely due to Iran blocking outward connections to the command-and-control server, rather than a drop-off in infections."
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Stuxnet code hints at possible Israeli origin, researchers say
Gregg Keizer
30.09.2010 kl 20:22 | Computerworld (US)

Security researchers today offered another tantalizing clue about the possible origins of the notorious Stuxnet worm, but cautioned against reading too much from the obscure tea leaves.

Security researchers today offered another tantalizing clue about the possible origins of the notorious Stuxnet worm, but cautioned against reading too much from the obscure tea leaves.

In a paper released today and presented at a Vancouver, British Columbia security conference, a trio of Symantec researchers noted that Stuxnet includes references in its code to the 1979 execution of a prominent Jewish Iranian businessman.

Buried in Stuxnet's code is a marker with the digits "19790509" that the researchers believe is a "do-not infect" indicator. If the marker equals that value, Stuxnet stops in its tracks, and does not infect the targeted PC.

The researchers -- Nicolas Falliere, Liam O Murchu and Eric Chen -- speculated that the marker represents a date: May 9, 1979.

"While on May 9, 1979, a variety of historical events occurred, according to Wikipedia "Habib Elghanian was executed by a firing squad in Tehran sending shock waves through the closely knit Iranian Jewish community," the researchers wrote.

Elghanian, a prominent Jewish-Iranian businessman, was charged with spying for Israel by the then-new revolutionary government of Iran, and executed May 9, 1979.

According to a contemporary account in Time magazine, Elghanian was the first Jewish Iranian to be executed by the revolutionary government, which seized power after the Shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, fled the country in January 1979.

"Elghanian, who was convicted of spying for Israel, was said to have made huge investments in Israel and to have solicited funds for the Israeli army, which the prosecution claimed made him an accomplice 'in murderous air raids against innocent Palestinians,'" reported Time.

But Falliere, O Murchu and Chen warned against jumping to the natural conclusion, that the reference pointed to Israel as the origin of Stuxnet. "Attackers would have the natural desire to implicate another party," they said.

Researchers at Symantec, Kaspersky Lab and elsewhere have been pulling apart Stuxnet since it made a public splash in July in attempts to understand how it works and who might have created the worm.

Stuxnet, which has been dubbed the world's most sophisticated malware ever by O Murchu and others, targets Windows PCs that oversee industrial-control systems, called "SCADA" systems, that in turn manage and monitor machinery in power plants, factories, pipelines and military installations.

Stuxnet's complex design and SCADA target has led many to conclude that it was the work of a state-backed group of hackers, while massive infections in Iran hinted that that country's infrastructure, possibly its nuclear facilities, was the intended target.

Last weekend, Iranian officials confirmed that tens of thousands of PCs in their country had been infected by Stuxnet, including some used at a nuclear power plant in southwestern Iran that's planned to go online next month.

The Symantec researchers also revealed a host of other Stuxnet details in their paper, including a "kill date" of June 24, 2012, after which the worm will refuse to execute.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habib_Elghanian

Habib Elghanian

Habib (Habibollah) Elghanian was a prominent Jewish Iranian businessman and philanthropist who served as the president of the Tehran Jewish Society and acted as the symbolic head of the Iranian Jewish community in the 1970s.

In 1959, Elghanian established "Plasco", a plastics manufacturing factory in Tehran which later became the largest and most technologically advanced plastics manufacturer in Iran. He played a significant role in bringing Western technology to Iran in the 1960s and 1970s while the country was moving forward with progressive changes in cultural, social and technological spheres under the Shah, Mohammed Reza Pahlavi. A self made muti-millionaire, Elghanian gained worldwide respect for his entrepreneurial accomplishments in Iran and Israel.

In a symbolic move, shortly after the Islamic revolution, the new government of Iran arrested Elghanian and charged him with "corruption", "contacts with Israel and Zionism", "friendship with the enemies of God", "warring with God and his emissaries", and "economic imperialism". He was tried by an Islamic revolutionary tribunal and sentenced to death, A report by Time magazine states: .

    Elghanian,who was convicted of spying for Israel, was said to have made huge investments in Israel and to have solicited funds for the Israeli army, which the prosecution claimed made him an accomplice "in murderous air raids against innocent Palestinians."

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On May 9, 1979, Elghanian was executed by a firing squad in Tehran sending shock waves through the closely knit Iranian Jewish community. He was the first Jew and one of the first civilians to be executed by the new Islamic government[2]. This prompted the mass exodus of the once 100,000 member strong Jewish community of Iran which continues to this day.

Amid the post-revolution chaos, the government with its many rival factions initially refused to release Elghanian's body to his family for burial. With the intervention of Chief Rabbi Yedidia Shofet and other prominent members of the Tehran Jewish community, his body was finally released and initially buried in an unmarked grave in Tehran's Beheshtieh Jewish cemetery. Out of fear of further retaliation, only a handful of people attended Elghanian's burial. A modest tombstone was later placed on his grave making no reference to his execution.[3]

Shortly after Elghanian's execution, the United States Senate passed a resolution authored by senator Jacob Javits to condemn his execution as well as that of other civilians as a violation of human rights in Iran.

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http://www.inl.gov/nationalsecurity/factsheets/docs/cyber_security.pdf

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http://www.inl.gov/research/scada-test-bed/

SCADA Test Bed
Helping protect the nation’s supervisory control and data aquisition systems


INL’s SCADA test bed includes access and testing options on a utility-scale 138KV transmission system.

The Invisible Threat

On August 14, 2003, many north-eastern metropolitan cities were in the midst of a historic blackout. According to the US-Canada Power Systems Outage Task Force, the event left millions of American and Canadian citizens without power for upwards of four days. It cost the U.S. economy between four and 10 billion dollars in lost wages, productivity and overtime. The event, though not terrorism related, brought infrastructure vulnerabilities to the forefront of homeland security. It proved that basic necessities needed for daily activity in our nation could be an easy target for cyber terrorists, hackers or disgruntled employees.

The security of control systems has been an issue of concern for the federal government since 9/11. In fact, the GAO report 04-354 states that an organization with sufficient resources, such as a foreign intelligence service or a well-supported terrorist group, could conduct a structured attack on the electric power grid electronically with a high degree of anonymity, and without having to set foot in the target nation. The blackout is only one example of the potential ramifications of a supervisory control and data acquisition, or SCADA attack. In fact, SCADA systems and their components can be found in a number of national infrastructures including the water and oil and gas industry. SCADA systems are computer controlled devises that perform and relay physical changes in infrastructure systems to technical operators. They are capable of monitoring millions of data points simultaneously, and can therefore be manipulated by a cyber attack. The reality that an adversary could penetrate an electrical powergrid, or other control system, with little more than a laptop and an Internet connection, is a major threat to our way of life.

SCADA systems were originally designed for reliability and efficiency, not security. They were designed and put into place long before businesses relied on the Internet. Today, corporations use the Internet to monitor SCADA and other control system activity. Yet many prominent security flaws, including sub-par firewalls and nonunique passwords, continue to exist within these systems creating the potential for a devastating attack.

With prominent concerns such as these, the U.S. departments of Energy and Homeland Security selected Idaho National Laboratory to lead the nation in control system vulnerability reduction.


INL’s SCADA Test Bed houses the nation’s only Real Time Digital Simulator certified for performing government and industry modeling and simulation.

Full-Scale Testing

To help prevent an attack from occurring, INL established a SCADA Test Bed. A test bed is a functioning model of full or near full-scale proportions that allows individuals to visualize, Continued from previous page analyze and test their control systems in a domain that is more realistic than computer simulation. Our SCADA Test Bed consists of several facilities that together create a centralized location for industry, equipment manufacturers and government agencies to work at finding tangible solutions to this growing threat. The Test Bed houses control systems from leading national and international manufacturers. Here, SCADA and cyber experts systematically examine the components of a functioning system and look for inherent vulnerabilities. Future testing and tool development will allow customers to bring their Remote Terminal Units (RTU), Intelligent Electronic Devices (IED), or Programmable Logic Controller (PLC) devices to the Test Bed and connect them to our full-scale electrical power grid. Our functioning power grid consists of 61 miles of 138 kV transmission loop distribution that feeds power to INL, and allows our technical staff to configure numerous network topologies to meet any customer’s needs. Within the loop there are multiple feeders, transformers and seven independent substations. These resources allow us to bring testing out of the theoretical, and into the real-world.

Customers have access to research and testing capabilities across a number of other INL Test Beds including our Wireless Test Bed which can simulate and test real TCP/ IP, ATM, 802.11, GSM, and modem communication signals. The Wireless Test Bed, along with our other test beds, can be configured to communicate with a customer’s SCADA systems via several means including ICCP, modbus, proprietary and public domain protocols, and DNP3. We also operate a specialized Cyber Test Bed where we can manipulate and test different firewall configurations and virtual private networks.
INL Facilities

Situated on 890 square miles of isolated landscape, the INL has designed, built and relied on our own control systems for more than 50 years. The immense location requires the lab to operate and maintain a vast network of control systems for electrical, water and telecommunication distribution. Using this existing setup and system expertise, INL developed a Test Range to perform real world control system tests and attacks. Our Test Range includes the SCADA Test Bed, Wireless Test Bed, Cyber Test Bed and many others. Customers of the SCADA Test Bed have the ability to connect their systems to other components of our Test Range, allowing for a complete and thorough assessment.

INL has established cooperative research agreements and non-disclosure agreements with dozens of companies, and is working with other companies that have expressed interest in the lab’s capabilities.
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http://www.cso.com.au/article/363005/smart_grid_security_critical_success_factors?fp=39&fpid=25592

Smart grid security: Critical success factors
Security is paramount in any smart grid deployment and should be embeded into the end-to-end architecture and deployment of intelligent networks

Threats to the smart grid can be classified into three broad groups: System level threats that attempt to take down the grid; attempts to steal electrical service; and attempts to compromise the confidentiality of data on the system.

It’s often assumed that security threats come exclusively from hackers and other individuals or outside groups with malicious intent. Staff and other “insiders” also pose a risk, however, because they have authorised access to one or more parts of the system. Insiders know sensitive pieces of information, such as passwords stored in system databases, and have access to a secure perimeter, cryptographic keys, and other security mechanisms that are targets of compromise. And not all security breaches are malicious; some result from accidental misconfigurations, failure to follow procedures, and other oversights.

An effective security strategy for smart grids needs to be end-to-end. This means that security capabilities need to be layered such that defence mechanisms have multiple points to detect and mitigate breaches. These capabilities also need to be integral to all segments of intelligent network infrastructure and address the full set of logical functional requirements, including:

Physical security

Examining the security of SCADA Networks, we always found lack of evidence in regards to physical security. The first thing to consider for securing a smart grid is keeping the intruders off the premises. A physical security solution needs to include capabilities for video surveillance, cameras, electronic access control, and emergency response. These functions need to be flexible enough to integrate and converge onto the IP backbone. The secure and smooth interoperability enables centralized management and control, monitoring and logging capabilities, and rapid access to information. This reduces the amount of time it takes facilities personnel and operations teams to respond to incidents across the grid.

Indentity and access control policies

Knowing who is on the grid is a vital element to the overall security strategy. Today, we see various user groups that have a reason to be on the network, including employees, contractors, and even customers. Access to these user groups, be it local or remote, should be granular, and authorization should only be granted to 'need to know' assets.

For example, an employee can have access to a specific grid control system, while a contractor only has access to a timecard application, and a customer has Internet-enabled access that allows that customer to view energy consumption and bills online.

Identity should be verified through strong authentication mechanisms. Passwords must be strong, attempts must be logged, and unauthorised attempts should be logged. We should implement a 'default deny' policy whereby access to the network is granted only through explicit access permissions. Furthermore, all access points should be hardened to prevent unauthorised access, and only ports and services necessary for normal operation should be enabled.

Hardened network devices and systems

The foundation of effective security architecture is the protection of the infrastructure itself. A system is only as strong as its weakest link and core elements—the routers and switches—can represent vulnerabilities and access methodologies if not properly protected. If these devices are compromised, they can be used to disrupt grid operations through denial-of-service (DoS) attacks or worse used to gain access to more vital control systems.

For example, routers can be shipped with factory default passwords and basic remote access such as Telnet and HTTP services turned on. Network administrators might neglect to change these settings, unknowingly providing an easy entry point into their domain. These best practices address the steps that keep intruders off the devices and help to make sure of a secure environment.

Threat defence

A comprehensive threat defence strategy is required to broadly cover the different vulnerabilities that a smart grid network can face. Despite discrete functional zones and clear segmentation, it is often difficult to anticipate what form a new threat might take. Care should be taken to apply security principles broadly across the entire infrastructure to build an effective, layered defence:

DoS attacks can debilitate the functionality of the grid. DoS attacks sourcing from the Internet should not have any effect on the control systems due to network segmentation and access control.

Host protection in the form of antivirus capabilities along with host-based intrusion prevention is required to protect critical client systems, servers, and endpoints. Host protection should be kept up to date with patch management controls to make sure that the latest threat intelligence and signature updates are in place.

Network intrusion prevention system (IPS) technologies should augment the host-based defenses. An IPS should be used to identify external threats attempting to enter the infrastructure, as well as stop any attempts at internal propagation.

Vulnerability assessments must be performed at least annually to make sure that any elements that interface with the perimeter are secure.

In some instances, user action can open potential vulnerabilities to the system. As such, awareness programs should be put in place to educate the network users—employees, contractors, and guests alike—about security best practices for using network-based tools and applications.

Data protection for transmission and storage

Because of the different entities that make up a grid, it is important to think about how data is protected as it is transmitted and stored.

    * Implement firewall functionality that enforces access policies between different network segments, either logical or physical
    * Support VPN architectures that apply encryption algorithms to make sure of secure and confidential data transmission
    * Allow for host encryption and data storage security capabilities to protect critical assets on servers and endpoints
    * Provide granular access control to sensitive data at the application level
    * Provide ubiquitous security across both wired and wireless connections in a consistent manner

Real-time monitoring, management, and correlation

For ongoing maintenance and tighter control, it is important to have the ability to monitor events at a granular level. Over the lifespan of any complex system, events occur. Some of these events might be the result of a security incident, and some might simply be 'noise', but it is important for the system to detect those events, generate alerts, and apply intelligence so that more informative and intelligent decisions can be made.

This level of visibility can show which network elements are being targeted, which network elements might be vulnerable, and what type of corrective action needs to take place. This is a requirement for any successful security strategy.

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This is exactly what Ptech and PROMIS were built for. Perhaps now it is time to review every single word Indira Singh has said so we know how the terrorists (Bilderberg) were able to pull of 9/11!

FBI’s role in 9/11 investigation needs investigation
http://www.madcowprod.com/mc4522004.html

"The project included incident investigation, law enforcement, military aviation systems, highly sensitive information, especially if you wanted to exploit the FAA’s current capabilities and holes… to jam or slow down U.S. military response to a domestic hijacking, for example.” Just the portion of the story above the waterline and already public record is shocking enough: Briefly, Saudi “money man” Yasin al-Qadi, named by the Bush Administration as a financial backer of the al-Qaeda terrorist network, had funded a software start-up in Boston named Ptech, reported the Boston Globe over a year ago.  Al-Qadi, a Saudi businessman whose US assets were frozen after the Sept. 11 attacks amid allegations that he has funded terrorist groups, is from Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, where he also headed the Saudi-based Muwafaq (Blessed Relief) Foundation. Treasury officials allege the “charity” is an al-Qaeda front used to funnel millions of dollars to the terrorist organization, and Al-Qadi was named a Specially Designated Global Terrorist by the United States on October 12, 2001. A US Treasury Department statement stated that "Muwafaq is an Al-Qaeda front that receives funding from wealthy Saudi businessmen"
"Somebody musta paid Osama for the heroin."

But it’s the unreported story that has the potential to lead to the explosive charge that the FBI’s role in the 9/11 investigation itself needs investigation. Ptech’s customers included sensitive government and intelligence agencies such as the FBI and the Air Force. “But until last fall,” the GLOBE reported on Jan. 22, 2003, “few seemed aware an early financial backer of Ptech was Yasin al-Qadi, a Saudi businessman named as a suspected terrorist financier by the Bush Administration in October 2001.” Reports of ineptitude at FBI headquarters have already surfaced in numerous places: in Phoenix, Chicago, and Minneapolis, for example. What makes reports of the Boston FBI’s bungled investigation into Ptech different is the unmistakably dark suggestion that this poor performance may have been intentional. Why would the Boston FBI do such a thing? Maybe because they were shielding a money laundering vehicle, goes the allegation, that was created back in the 1980's as part of the CIA’s program of arming the Afghan mujahedeen.

Can you say BCCI?

The tale begins almost right after the 9/11 attack, when, in October of 2001, handful of ex-Ptech employees alerted the FBI to evidence indicating that the firm had Saudi terror connections.

Saudi terrorists, Saudi money, and JP Morgan Chase

Almost a year later the Boston FBI had still done nothing about it. They had, in fact, shut down their cursory investigation and taken no action.  Thus Ptech was still operating at the highest levels of American society in the Spring of 2002,  when the firm showed up hustling business at the door of Wall Street’s JP Morgan Chase. The question is “why?” On its surface, the answer appears to be “money.” Lots and lots of Saudi money. Indira Singh, who later became a whistleblower, was an unwitting eyewitness to the “train wreck.”   “I invited Ptech to come down and give a presentation and a customized demo to JP Morgan Chase,” states Singh, who was a consultant to the bank on “risk architecture,” an arcane software specialty which calculates enterprise risk. In one of the story’s many ironic twists, Singh was at the time designing a system to help JP Morgan Chase detect terrorist money laundering.

When Ptech showed up, Singh quickly realized that she was witnessing her worst fears about compromised security come true.  “Within half an hour on the premises, I knew something was up,” she says. “They had almost immediately raised about six of my red flags, to the point where I walked over to my desk and picked up the phone, and began making phone calls.”

She talked with a respected industry figure who had once worked at Ptech. “He was shocked to learn that I had invited Ptech on the premises. He told me the company belonged to Yasin Qadi.” In the course of what would otherwise have been just another day at the bank, Indira Singh made the amazing discovery that the firm in front of her at the moment was owned by Saudis, including Yasin Qadi, with suspected as well as proven ties to the terrorists who carried out the 9/11 attack.  All this left her feeling more than a little surprised.
 
'Chief Thug' at J.P. Morgan Chase

Moreover, she learned, Yasin Al-Qadi had been fingered by the Bush Administration in October 2001, over six months before.  So how was it that Ptech was still making presentations to top American companies six months later?  The industry source Singh had consulted on Ptech had more bad news than just Yasin Qadi. “There were several people at Ptech who were targets of Operation Greenquest, a Dept of Treasury terrorism investigation,” she told us, “and that the company’s funding vehicle, BMI, was also under investigation. The list just went on and on and on. It was a spider’s web of connections.”  When Singh flew to Washington D.C. to meet some of the ex-Ptech employees to verify their allegations, she received another shock. “I met with five extraordinarily scared people. These people were scared for their lives, and for their families. Some were about to leave the country. They told me, ‘Indira, you don’t know who you’re dealing with.’ Sadly, when she told us what happened next, it came as no surprise:  When Singh alerted authorities, and her employer, what she encountered was the inexplicable wrath of a top Wall Street Bank, as well as an official wall of silence at the FBI.

“I took everything I had at that point back to my boss at JP Morgan Chase,” she states. “He didn’t want to deal with it. So I called his boss,  because at this point I realized I was sitting on dynamite.” “The various heads of the security functions at the bank set up an interview with me, and it quickly  escalated to the bank’s General Auditor, who introduced himself to me as JP Morgan Chase’s ‘chief thug.’”

We didn’t know banks like JP Morgan had thugs, we said. “He introduced himself as the General Auditor,” said Singh, “but he said, for the real purposes of what he does at JP Morgan Chase, I am the ‘chief thug.’” “He basically told me to keep my mouth shut and look the other way, and enjoy a wonderful life here at JP Morgan, and if I didn’t I was out.” Alerting the bosses at one of America’s largest banks to a terror threat had certainly produced a strange result. Singh had entered a hall of mirrors, especially after she discovered that the terrorist threat was real.
 

A 'problem' with the Boston FBI

“By that time, I had already talked with my boss’s boss, to whom I had originally gone,” she says. “He told me, it was all true. He said, ‘everything you laid out on the table was true.’” When attempts to intimidate her into silence failed, she became another American hero speaking out despite the consequences, which will be described in a future report. After talking to the Boston FBI, Singh said she had been ''shocked'' and ''frustrated'' to learn that the FBI had not alerted any of the government agencies using Ptech software that there were questions about the company's ties to suspected terrorist fund-raisers.  The story is just the latest in a series of embarrassments for the Boston FBI office, including the scandal over the agency's coddling of murderous organized crime informants, which led to an until-now inexplicable threat by President Bush to use “executive privilege” to cloak details about the Boston FBI from Congressional investigators.

Still, when we first heard whistleblower Indira Singh tell her story it sounded so incredible that we would have found it unbelievable…except that we had already encountered stories like it in Venice, of witnesses bullied and intimidated by authorities into silence. For example, the FBI was all over tenants at the Sandpiper Apartments across the street from the Venice Airport, to keep them from talking about Mohamed Atta’s two-month long ‘shack-up’ with an American girlfriend named Amanda Keller. In addition to warning Keller not to talk, a warning she took so seriously she left town and disappeared from view, FBI agents bullied and intimidated apartment residents who remembered the pair, and even the apartment manager of the complex, Charles Grapentine, an ex-marine, who told us grimly, "They called me a liar, and told me to keep my mouth shut. Nobody likes to hear that: that they didn't see something they know they saw.”

Atta and Amanda’s next door neighbor, a 50-year old housewife named Stephanie Frederickson, confirmed the apartment manager’s remarks. "The question they asked was always the same," she told us. "You aren’t saying anything to anybody, are you?" Now, it seems that FBI agents in Boston were engaged in equally-dubious behavior. Mistakes, malfeasance, and even missed opportunities to avert the Sept 11 attack… There’s been a regular drumbeat of depressing news about the FBI.

Singh told us that disgruntled Boston FBI agents told her privately that their hands were tied on Ptech, because, they said, “Saudis have been given a free pass for 9/11.” “And that,” says Singh, “is when I began to get really scared.”
   
NEXT WEEK: PTECH, THE BOSTON FBI, AND THE KAMIKAZE KID

• There's something different about the FBI's Boston office.
• What does the Ptech story have to do with a two-year inquiry of the House Government Reform Committee?
• Hint: the committee’s final report said this about the Boston FBI: “Their conduct must be considered one of the greatest failures in the history of federal law enforcement." • Dark hints about why the Boston FBI’s seeming “incompetence” may have been intentional.

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NOTE: SAVE ANY MP3 FILE, VIDEO FILES, DOCUMENTS, TRANSCRIPTS, ANALYSIS WITH INDIRA SINGH LOCALLY. ALL INFORMATION ON INDIRA SINGH IS BEING REMOVED FROM THE INTERNET. THIS INCLUDES THE GUNS AND BUTTER ARCHIVES AND THE MICHAEL CORBIN ARCHIVES.

Transcript: Indira Singh on Guns and Butter exposing STUXNET False Flag Plans
http://forum.prisonplanet.com/index.php?topic=188160.0

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Why was Michael Corbin assassinated?

Why has Indira Singh been silenced?

BECAUSE THEY WERE PLANNING STUXNET!!!!!!!!!!!

The whole reason she was ignored, covered up, and the interviewers assassinated or intimidated is because the STUXNET plans were already on the table!

She exposed STUXNET years ago!

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For Immediate Release
July 15, 2009   
United States Attorney's Office
District of Massachusetts
Contact: (617) 748-3100

Former Ptech Officer Arrested for SBA Loan Fraud
http://boston.fbi.gov/dojpressrel/pressrel09/bs071509.htm

Indictment Unsealed Charges Former Ptech President with Dealing in Assets of Specially Designated Global Terrorist

BOSTON—A former resident of Somerville, Mass. who has been living in South Korea was arrested today after arriving at John F. Kennedy Airport in New York.

An indictment, originally returned on March 1, 2007, was unsealed today charging Buford George Peterson and Oussama Abdul Ziade, both former officers of Ptech, Inc., a computer software company that was principally located in Quincy, Mass., with making false statements to the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) in connection with a loan application in the amount of $650,000 for Ptech submitted under a program offered to assist small businesses economically harmed by the attacks of September 11, 2001. The indictment charges Peterson and Ziade with falsely representing the identities of Ptech’s major shareholders in this loan application to conceal the ownership interest in Ptech held by a Specially Designated Global Terrorist, Yassin Kadi aka Yassin Al-Kadi aka Yassin Al-Qadi aka Yassin Qadi (Kadi) through Sarmany Limited, a company Kadi owned and controlled. Ziade served as Ptech’s President, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of its Board of Directors from February 1994 to 2003 while Peterson served as Ptech’s Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operating Officer from February 2001 to August 2002.

Acting U.S. Attorney Michael K. Loucks; Bruce M. Foucart, Special Agent in Charge of Immigration and Customs Enforcement - Office of Investigations in Boston; Warren T. Bamford, Special Agent in Charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation - Boston Field Office; and Susan Dukes, Special Agent in Charge of the Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation - Boston Field Office, announced today that a seven-count indictment, originally returned on March 1, 2007, was unsealed charging Peterson and Ziade with making false statements to the SBA in Ptech’s loan application in January 2002 when they falsely represented the identity of the major stockholders of Ptech (those owning 20 percent or more of stock) by omitting in Ptech’s stock ownership table any reference to Sarmany Limited, a company owned and controlled by Kadi. The indictment also charges Ziade with engaging in transactions involving, and dealing in, the property of Kadi, a Specially Designated Global Terrorist, and making false statements to law enforcement during the investigation of Ptech.

According to the indictment, beginning in or about 1994 and continuing until or about 2001, Kadi, a Saudi Arabian national, invested approximately $10 million dollars in Ptech through companies he owned, controlled or in which he held a beneficial interest. On Oct. 12, 2001, pursuant to Executive Order 13224, entitled “Blocking Property and Prohibiting Transactions with Persons who Commit, Threaten to Commit, or Support Terrorism,” which was issued in response to the attacks of September 11, 2001, the United States government designated Kadi as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist. As a result, any transaction involving, or dealing in, any interest in any property, direct or indirect, held by Kadi, and subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, was prohibited.

As of Oct. 12, 2001, the date of Kadi’s designation, Kadi owned and controlled a large percentage of Ptech common shares. The indictment alleges that “Kadi held that interest in the names of [foreign] entities he owned and controlled or in which he held a beneficial interest...  At the time of his designation, Ziade knew that Kadi held an interest in Ptech stock issued in the names of Kadi’s entities.” According to the indictment, “on or about Nov. 29, 2001, Ziade drafted a capitalization table identifying Kadi as the owner of approximately 9.9 million dollars worth of Ptech common shares, which had been issued by Ptech in the names of Kadi’s entities.” The indictment further alleges that Ziade “engaged in transactions designed in whole or in part to conceal the source and ownership of Ptech's assets and common stock.”    

If convicted on these charges, Peterson faces up to 30 years in prison, to be followed by five years of supervised release and a $1 million fine.

Also unsealed today was a criminal complaint issued on July 27, 2005 charging Ziade with attempting to engage in transactions involving, and dealing in, the property of Kadi, a Specially Designated Global Terrorist; knowingly making false statements to the SBA in a loan application submitted on behalf of Ptech; and making false statements to law enforcement. Ziade, a Lebanese national, has been living outside of the country since 2005.

If arrested and convicted of the charges in the indictment, Ziade also faces up to 30 years in prison, to be followed by five years supervised release and a $1 million fine.  

The case was jointly investigated by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation. The Medford Police Department, Massachusetts State Police, U.S. Secret Service, Office of Foreign Asset Control of the U.S. Department of Treasury, and U.S. Small Business Administration also provided assistance in the investigation. It is being prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorneys B. Stephanie Siegmann and Jeffrey Auerhahn of Loucks’ Anti-Terrorism and National Security Unit.

The details contained in the indictment are allegations. The defendants are presumed to be innocent unless and until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt in a court of law.

Feds: Former Quincy execs hid ties to man on terror list
http://www.bostonherald.com/news/regional/view/20090715feds_former_quincy_execs_hid_ties_to_man_on_terror_list/srvc=home&position=recent
By Associated Press Wednesday, July 15, 2009 - Added 1h ago  

Federal authorities have accused two former executives of a Massachusetts software company of concealing financial ties to a man on the government’s terrorism list. The Quincy office of PTech, Inc., was raided by federal agents in the aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks. [ Indictments were unsealed Wednesday against PTech’s former chief executive, Oussama Ziade, and former chief financial officer Buford George Peterson. They are accused of trying to conceal in a loan application an approximately $10 million financial interest in the company held by Yassin Kadi (KAH’-dee). Kadi is a Saudi Arabian on the Treasury Department’s list of Specially Designated Global Terrorists. The U.S. Attorney’s office says Peterson was arrested Wednesday after arriving at New York’s Kennedy Airport. It wasn’t known if he has an attorney. Prosecutors said Ziade is living overseas. [Yeah in the House of Saud!]

Recent cyberattacks provide pretext for sweeping new Internet snooping powers by the government
http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_4898.shtml
By James Corbett Online Journal Guest Writer Jul 13, 2009, 00:24

On Friday, July 3, while most Americans were preparing for a weekend of fireworks and hot dogs, the Obama administration had an ominous message: they are going ahead with a Bush-era plan to allow the NSA even more power to invade, intercept and analyze the data of anyone visiting a government website, ostensibly to help prevent a major cyberattack.

The timing of the announcement -- the day before a long holiday weekend -- seemed unusual, but less than 24 hours later just such an attack began to unfold on a series of websites in America and South Korea, including those of the White House, Pentagon, New York Stock Exchange, Treasury Department, Secret Service and Washington Post, amongst others.

The attack itself turns out to have been fairly innocuous -- a run of the mill DDOS (distributed denial of service) attack that did not even employ the latest malware, but you wouldn’t know that from reading the sensational reporting in the controlled corporate media. The VOA reports that the ‘Internet attackers’ have struck again. US State Department under cyberattack for fourth day blares a headline from the AFP.

Blame for the attack is now falling on North Korea, but what North Korea has to gain by taking down The Washington Post’s website is anybody’s guess (perhaps Kim Jong-il was giving his own pronouncement on the recent revelation that the Post was selling access to high-level politicians to lobbyists for $250,000 a pop). The big winner in this attack, it seems, is the federal government, which has been preparing to unveil an Internet surveillance spy grid for years, but has virtually no mandate to do so from a public that has become tired of invasive government snooping.

Various government stooges have been trying to drum up support for their Orwellian police state fantasy for years by warning of the coming ‘cybergeddon’ at the hands of ‘cyber terrorists.’ In 2003, former National Security Agency (NSA) Director Mike McConnell was going on international fear mongering trips, warning of attacks “equivalent to the attack on the World Trade Center in New York” unless a new agency were created to deal with the threat. The ‘cyber 9-11’ meme has carried on ever since, with hysterical coverage of Chinese cyber warriors and teenage hackers, attempting to rally the public into supporting a new front in the War on Terror: cyberspace.

Of course, exactly as was the case of 9/11, which was used as a pretext for introducing and passing (before anyone had time to read it) the voluminous, labyrinthine, constitution-destroying USAPATRIOT Act, so too will the ‘cyber 911’ be used to justify an iPATRIOT Act that will destroy any vestige of legal red tape preventing the government from tracking, tracing and controlling every movement of every citizen in cyberspace forever.

That this legislation exists and is, in fact, merely waiting for a large cyberterrorist incident to justify rushing it into law was actually admitted last year by former Counter Terrorism Czar Richard Clarke to Lawrence Lessig. “I was having dinner with Richard Clarke and I asked him if there is an equivalent [to the USAPATRIOT Act],” Lessig recounted to a technology conference in California last year. “Is there an i-PATRIOT Act just sitting waiting for some substantial event as an excuse to radically change the way the Internet works. He said, ‘Of course there is.’”

The three prongs of the attack on Internet freedom and privacy come from the military, the NSA and the Executive/Legislative branches of government. In 2003, the military labeled the Internet itself an enemy weapons system and ever since then there has been growing momentum behind various military, intelligence and governmental schemes to track and trace all movements of all Internet users, American or foreign. Last year, the Air Force attempted to establish its own cyber command, resulting in military turf wars that spawned last month a new U.S. Cyber Command and the further militarization of cyberspace. The military has even threatened a military response against any would-be hackers of government systems (unless you are North Korean, evidently).

At the same time, the NSA is jockeying to launch a new system dubbed Einstein that would see all telecoms route data traveling to or from government networks through an NSA monitoring box. This is on top of existing programs like Pinwale and Stellar Wind, which have already given them legal access to secretly spy on billions of communications records. Now Mike McConnell is back on the fear mongering trail telling anyone who will listen that if the NSA doesn’t have the authority to examine everyone’s search history, private emails and file transfers, then there will be a (you guessed it) “cyber 9/11.”

The third prong of the attack comes from America’s own elected representatives. Even back in 2007 the powerful think tank known as the Center for Strategic and International Studies was already preparing for the coming Obama presidency, convening a yearlong panel that issued a report called Securing Cyberspace for the 44th Presidency, which contained the following chilling passage under the heading Regulate cyberspace: “Voluntary action is not enough. The United States must assess and prioritize risks and set minimum standards for securing cyberspace in order to ensure that the delivery of critical services in cyberspace continues if the United States is attacked.”

Now, Jay Rockefeller is attempting to do just that with a bill that would kick start this process of setting ‘minimum standards’ for cybersecurity over to an advisory panel filled with globalists, corporate chieftains and hand-picked academics. Rockefeller tried to drum up his own support for the bill by reaching new heights of hysterical fear mongering over the Net, even going so far as to say the Internet should never have existed. Obama is getting in on the act as well, threatening to pick a new ‘cyber czar’ who is conspicuous for having taken every opportunity during his time in Congress to vote for the expansion of NSA spying programs and authorities.

The entire cyberterror hysteria seems to have reached a peak in the last month, with the announcement of U.S. Cyber Command, the impending vote on Rockefeller’s bill and the naming of Obama’s cyber czar expected to occur in the near future.

Up until last week, there has only been one problem: there has been no clear mandate for any of this hysterical rush toward increased government snooping and regulation on the Internet. The American public is becoming disgusted with Obama’s continuation of the NSA spying program and has been unwilling to get behind giving up their online liberties in exchange for protection from the threat of teenage hackers and Russian spambots. The former head of the National Cybersecurity Center resigned this March citing “threats to the democratic process from the NSA’s attempts to dominate all governmental cybersecurity efforts. Wired even ran a story detailing how the U.S. Cyber Command is an agency without a purpose, function or mission that has been trying to find a reason for existing.

Now along comes a relatively unsophisticated DDOS attack from what may or may not be North Korea (there is no proof for the origin of the attack other than the government’s say-so) and suddenly it all seems justified: the creation of new branches of the military to deal with cyberwarfare and even create sophisticated new cyberweapons for destroying hackers and rogue governments; the NSA programs to track and trace all searches, file transfers and communications of seemingly everyone on the planet; Rockefeller’s legislation to appoint big business and globalists to advise on mandatory communications regulations. It seems that Obama and the NSA have more to gain from these attacks than do the North Koreans.

Of course, the capability (and presumably the intention) to monitor every electronic communication passing through the United States in real time has long existed. What we are seeing now is the revelation of long-established policies and technologies to a public that may have rejected them before. The Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA) of 1994 already mandated that every communications device in the country be accessible by law enforcement, and it has now been mainstream news for years that the FBI can (and has) dialed into cellphones to listen in on any conversations taking place within reach of the microphone . . . even if the power is turned off. In 2006, an AT&T whistleblower revealed an NSA spy room directly in the data hub monitoring every email, every phone call and every fax traveling through that hub. In 2008, it was admitted that part of the NSA’s efforts to catch Al-CIAda included agents passing around particularly humorous phone sex conversations between US military overseas and their wives back home.

No, the capability of spying on all communications of all Americans is not being developed now; that has already happened. Right now we are witnessing the implementation of the phase in which the capability to track and trace all communications are being introduced to the public and justified on the grounds of national security. Expect to see an increasing number of media-hyped “cyberattack” stories before the cyber 9/11 makes the iPATRIOT Act a reality.

Of course, it should be obvious by now that those in charge of multi-billion dollar agencies are in positions to directly materially benefit from just such large, stunning cyberattacks, opening the door to the false-flag mentality by which attacks are to be welcomed for their transformative nature. Certainly the NSA is not building a $1.6 billion data center to sit on their hands waiting for an attack, nor are the governments of the UK, Canada, Ireland and many other countries suddenly considering draconian new e-spying legislation for the fun of it.

For those who are interested in how a false-flag cyber terrorist attack could be generated, the PTech story remains a crucial piece of the puzzle. The technology exists for those in the know to commit sophisticated, convincing and devastating attacks through the government’s own cyber infrastructure. The only question is who has the means, motive and opportunity to use it.

James Corbett publishes the Corbett Report.com.

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Go to the original link, James hyperlinks every single assertion!  Nice article James!!!!!

[Dig]

Live Free or Die Hard, PTECH, Next 9/11 the writing is on the walls
http://forum.prisonplanet.com/index.php?topic=71246.0

PTECH INDIRA SINGH
http://forum.prisonplanet.com/index.php?topic=72748.0

Live Free or Die Hard 2: Ptech/CVE.MITRE.ORG/DHS/Horizons/EA/IT Governance/USAID
http://forum.prisonplanet.com/index.php?topic=80222.0

PTECH Fullfills OMG Request for OODA Loop generation functionality.
http://forum.prisonplanet.com/index.php?topic=99539.0

PROMIS/Ptech/Choicepoint/Infragard/DIEBOLD=World ID/Carbon Tax/IPv6
http://forum.prisonplanet.com/index.php?topic=79634.0

Ptech used in Desert Storm - Future Combat Systems - Global Dictatorship
http://forum.prisonplanet.com/index.php?topic=91752.0

Ultra - rare mass data dump of Ptech related news articles
http://forum.prisonplanet.com/index.php?topic=95708.0

Ptech CONFIRMED-Booz Allen, *False Flag Warning* to usher in Internet2/GIG
http://forum.prisonplanet.com/index.php?topic=91740.0

PROMIS/Ptech makes compartmentalization obsolete. Key to total tyranny & C2
http://forum.prisonplanet.com/index.php?topic=79470.0

Avian Flu-Criticial Infrastructure, False Flag wargame-Ptech Lab in charge of CS
http://forum.prisonplanet.com/index.php?topic=98058.0

New World Order told Singh that her sources on Ptech "SHOULD BE KILLED"
http://forum.prisonplanet.com/index.php?topic=108802.0

Most Startling 9/11 Evidence(Ptech, Oklahoma, Saudis, etc)
http://forum.prisonplanet.com/index.php?topic=102913.0

Guardium-Israeli MOSSAD-Ptech, BAH Black Ops Cyber Conference in 48 hour
http://forum.prisonplanet.com/index.php?topic=109378.0

WTF? Ptech was contracted w/ Rocky Flats Nuclear Weapons Facility | DOE
http://forum.prisonplanet.com/index.php?topic=110276.0

"We helped carry out 9/11, now we have control of India's airspace with Ptech"
http://forum.prisonplanet.com/index.php?topic=92428.0

Legitimizing Unconstitutionality - DMV gets Ptech AI facial recognition software
http://forum.prisonplanet.com/index.php?topic=99421.0

Ptech... ALL YOUR FLIGHT CONTROLS ARE BELONG TO US...


Holy shit..Ptech runs the FAA when the air traffic controllers are not!
http://forum.prisonplanet.com/index.php?topic=126240.0

WTF? Who (or What) controlled this plane? PTECH still controls FAA!
http://forum.prisonplanet.com/index.php?topic=144120.0

TRON, Master Control Program, Ptech, Agile, and C.A.E.S.E.R.
http://forum.prisonplanet.com/index.php?topic=103833.0

Live Free or Die Hard, PTECH, Next 9/11 the writing is on the walls
http://forum.prisonplanet.com/index.php?topic=71246.0

CAESAR III, Temper, Pythia, Data Fusion Ptech AI wargame C2 process modeling
http://forum.prisonplanet.com/index.php?topic=102701.0

Indira Singh, Ptech, Bohemian Gove, Octopus, Babylon, 9/11, Enron
http://forum.prisonplanet.com/index.php?topic=40587.0

PTECH INDIRA SINGH
http://forum.prisonplanet.com/index.php?topic=72748.0

NRO Declassified/NIMA - Ptech/DHS terrorist Amit Yoran-In-Q-Tel
http://forum.prisonplanet.com/index.php?topic=60343.0

IBM-from Nazi Deathcamp computers to Ptech/GIG RBAC Prison Infrastructure
http://forum.prisonplanet.com/index.php?topic=109977.0

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I cannot stress these links enough. If they do not communicate well, build your own thread. Do your own analysis. For Pete's sake, please continually research this stuff, the elite's fingerprints are all over the place on STUXNET. Connect the dots...STUXNET false flag was why Indira Singh has been silenced. This connects SUXNET to Ptech as being the same exact command and control back end system which takes over all of the controls from the operators. Ptech is connected to 9/11 as it did exactly the same thing on 9/11 exposed by Indira Singh. Expose STUXNET and you expose the inside job cyberterrorism component of 9/11 (which was about the biggest component from an operational standpoint).

Transcript: Indira Singh on Guns and Butter exposing STUXNET False Flag Plans
http://forum.prisonplanet.com/index.php?topic=188160.0

WTF? Ptech was contracted w/ Rocky Flats Nuclear Weapons Facility | DOE
http://forum.prisonplanet.com/index.php?topic=110276.0

Live Free or Die Hard, PTECH, Next 9/11 the writing is on the walls
http://forum.prisonplanet.com/index.php?topic=71246.0

Ultra - rare mass data dump of Ptech related news articles
http://forum.prisonplanet.com/index.php?topic=95708.0

New World Order told Singh that her sources on Ptech "SHOULD BE KILLED"
http://forum.prisonplanet.com/index.php?topic=108802.0

NRO Declassified/NIMA - Ptech/DHS terrorist Amit Yoran-In-Q-Tel
http://forum.prisonplanet.com/index.php?topic=60343.0

[Dig]

22 months ago post about Michael Kane's 8 year old warnings concerning Indira Singh raising the warning flag and Paul Revere-ing this issue with every ounce of energy she had:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8228336760154277932

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-368745798563225089

May-December 5, 2002: US Investigators Pressed to Look Into Ptech



Indira Singh. [Source: Michael Kane]
http://www.historycommons.org/entity.jsp?entity=indira_singh
In October 2001, Ptech insiders attempted to warn the FBI that suspected terrorist financier Yassin al-Qadi had funded Ptech (see Shortly After October 12, 2001). Then Indira Singh, an employee at JP Morgan Chase bank, develops her own suspicions about Ptech after her bank assigned her to investigate Ptech for a potential business deal. In May 2002, she speaks with the FBI about her concerns. Weeks later, she learns the FBI still has not told any other government agencies about the potential Ptech security threat. She later will recall, “the language, the kind of language law enforcement, counterterrorism, and the FBI agents themselves were using basically indicated to me that absolutely no investigation was going on, that it was totally at a standstill, at which point my hair stood on end.” She contacts a Boston CBS television station, WBZ-TV, and a reporter for the station named Joe Bergantino begins investigating Ptech. [Boston Globe, 12/7/2002; National Public Radio, 12/8/2002; WBZ 4 (Boston), 12/9/2002] Around the same time, a former government official with contacts in the Bush administration tells officials at the National Security Council about the Ptech allegations. By late August, Operation Greenquest then opens its own Ptech investigation. The FBI then tries “to muscle its way back into the probe once it [becomes] clear that [Greenquest is] taking the case seriously.” [Newsweek, 12/6/2002; WBZ 4 (Boston), 12/9/2002] Beginning in late November, US agents begin calling Ptech officials and asking them if they have ties to money laundering, thus tipping them off. Ptech will also be notified when a December raid will be occurring before it happens. [Associated Press, 1/3/2003] WBZ-TV prepared a story on Ptech, but withheld it from the public for more than three months after receiving “calls from federal law enforcement agencies, some at the highest levels.” The station claims the government launched its Ptech probe in August 2002, after they “got wind of our investigation” and “asked us to hold the story so they could come out and do their raid and look like they’re ahead of the game.” [Boston Globe, 12/7/2002; WBZ 4 (Boston), 12/9/2002]

Entity Tags: Operation Greenquest, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Ptech Inc., National Security Council, Indira Singh

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PTECH runs the risk architechture software for the IRS, FAA, DoD, CIA, Banking, Insurance, etc.

They are connected to the 9/11 conspirators and have been outed by Indira Singh.

They have the capability to create the almost identical scenario as seen in Live Free or Die Hard.

Investigate Indira and PTECH, their software is currently benind the scenes working its magic during the stock market mayhem we are in.

They can change numbers on a board, just as easily as they can create false blips for the FAA during 9/11.

Their programmers worked in the FAA unhindered during 9/11.

Like I said, investigate it yourselves.

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Malware can make planes crash...or is it Ptech/PROMIS:

http://www.notanotherconspiracy.com/2010/08/malware-implicated-in-fatal-spanair.html

They are setting up the new narrative..."These are not controlled by Bilderberg agents...it is caused by 'Malware'"

[Anti_Illuminati]

67 page document by world renowned Anti-Virus vendor ESET, on the Stuxnet worm:

http://www.eset.com/resources/white-papers/Stuxnet_Under_the_Microscope.pdf

[Satyagraha]

21st Century Hunter-Killer UAV Enters Restricted DC Airspace – Skynet Alive?
by Charles Jeter Contributing writer for Securing Our eCity
August 28, 2010 at 11:26 am
http://blog.eset.com/2010/08/25/rise-of-the-machines-navy-uav-goes-awol-malware-or-skynet

In a page directly out of Hollywood’s Terminator script the US Navy released details  today about a rogue robot helicopter which diverted twenty-three miles penetrating restricted Washington DC airspace (ADIZ) after a complete loss of command and control on August 2nd due to “software anomaly.”

Considering that a trojan-infected maintenance system is partially responsible for downing a commercial airliner in 2008, “software anomaly” is speculative.

Navy UAV Goes AWOL

SkyNet has not yet been blamed and there was no word about whether this Fire Scout drone was carrying its armament load-out of the Advanced Precision Kill Weapon System or Hellfire missiles.

    * The cause appears to have been “a software anomaly that allowed the aircraft not to follow its pre-programmed flight procedures,” [Firescout program manager Capt. Tim Dunigan] said in the statement.

    * “We have identified the issue and have aircraft operating restrictions that will prevent this from happening again.” Software modification has been developed to remove the anomaly, he said.

    * …Although the Fire Scout has racked up more than 1,000 flight hours since December 2006, this was the first such incident to hit the program, the Navy said.

Does anyone else hear the theme music to Terminator playing softly in the background?

[Update 1:55pm] As for the Madrid 2008 air disaster, while the trojan’s role was not the cause of the crash, it was ruled a contributing factor:

    * An internal Spanair report indicated that a central computer system used to monitor problems in the aircraft was infected with malware, according to El Pais.
    * The infected computer system, which was located at the airline’s headquarters in Palma de Mallorca, failed to detect several technical problems with the airplane.
    * Had the issues been identified, the plane should not have been able to take off.

[Update 3:23pm] I just read today’s DoD announcement that the most significant breach in US Military history is confirmed to have originated with foreign intelligence. The vector for the DoD attack was Autorun and removable media, same as the Madrid air disaster.

Related? Hard to tell.

[Update 8/26 8:25] At least one Navy source says it’s not related and is a conspiracy theory in our comments below, with the IP goes right back to the Norfolk US Navy NMCI server.



While I’m certain that this is not keeping with the finest traditions of Navy transparency, demonstrated by the recent open access given 16 bloggers, I’m still left wondering if an attribution of the software anomaly may be clarified – was it due to malware?

[Update 8/28 12:12] Clarity on the Spanair crash should be given; the maintenance computer found partially responsible was indeed infected with malware however this was not an onboard flight computer. Rather, it was the ground crew policy and procedure which was interfered with by the malware-ridden system. The flight would have been grounded according to policy had the alarm triggered, however the pilot error was ruled the primary cause of the mishap.

So the pilot made an error, the takeoff warning system (TOWS) failed to alert the pilot to the error, and this TOWS system was problematic, which would have grounded the plane had the malware-infected system the ground crew was using been operating properly. Any of the three issues being resolved would have saved 154 people, and that does include the malware on the non-flight ground maintenance system, which would have been ruled a ‘contributing factor to the mishap’ in Naval Aviation. Others have said it’s tertiary – there is no such thing. There are primary causes and contributing causes for a mishap. All contributing causes are equally to blame because without them the mishap may have been avoided, and that includes malware.

‘Rise of the Machines’ or ‘Motive With Universal Adaptor?’

There are no indications as of yet  that this was the result of cyberwarfare or hacking however this remotely operated (potentially armed) vehicle would definitely become the target of command and control interruption during a cyberwar. Interruption would result in similar circumstances such as a deviation of flight. Successful command and control hacking would result in complete usability gained by an outside force, and perhaps even direction of weapons systems.

Still, paired with today’s other late breaking announcement about USB malware intentionally used by foreign intelligence back in 2008 against the US military, we should note that the motive should not be ruled out in the future. Cybercrime syndicates as well as national security actors/agents from foreign intelligence networks are equally capable of attempting this level of breach and the tactical rewards are monumental.

As Deputy SecDef W. Lynn pointed out last year:

    * We know that organized criminal groups and individual hackers are building global networks of compromised computers, botnets and zombies, and then selling or renting them to the highest bidder, in essence becoming 21st-century cybermercenaries.

 
Takeaway:

As civilians it’s important for us to understand that there is a documented monetary incentive involved with defeating these systems.  The 2009 DBIR notes the most common breach tactic tends to be in finding the ‘weakest link’ of the entire defensive structure, commonly with partnering corporations.

This means that often our unrelated companies may be targeted specifically in order to work upwards through the trust relationships in order to successfully penetrate the ultimate target. The Fire Scout systems were designed here in San Diego and they are assembled in Moss Point, MS. More Fire Scout project partner details can be found at GlobalSecurity.org’s site.

If we work for companies who are partnered with defense contractors, two words should remind us all how connected we are: Stuxnet & SCADA. I urge anyone to check to see if their companies have data pathways open with defense contractors and take appropriate precautions. Don’t be that open door.
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Trojan may have contributed to fatal 2008 Madrid air crash
http://www.scmagazineus.com/trojan-may-have-contributed-to-fatal-2008-madrid-air-crash/printarticle/177361/
Angela Moscaritolo
August 23 2010

An investigation into the 2008 crash of Spanair Flight 5022, which killed 154 people, has revealed that a trojan-infected system may have contributed to the fatal accident, according to a report in the Spanish daily newspaper El Pais.

An internal Spanair report indicated that a central computer system used to monitor problems in the aircraft was infected with malware, according to El Pais. The infected computer system, which was located at the airline's headquarters in Palma de Mallorca, failed to detect several technical problems with the airplane. Had the issues been identified, the plane should not have been able to take off, the newspaper states.

The flight, destined for the Canary Islands, crashed on Aug. 20, 2008 after takeoff from Madrid Barajas International Airport in Spain. Of the 172 people onboard, 154 died, including the six crew members.

The malware could have made its way onto the airline's diagnostic computer from an infected portable media device, such as a CD or USB drive, Rick Wanner, handler at the SANS Internet Storm Center, told SCMagazineUS.com in an email Monday.

It is important to note, though, that the malware did not cause the plane to crash, Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant at anti-virus firm Sophos, wrote in a blog post Friday.

The malware, however, could have caused Spanair's central computer system to fail, Wanner said.

“I don't have the expertise in airline operations…but my guess is that the malware didn't prevent the information from being communicated from the plane, but that the malware was consuming so many resources on the computer that it delayed the ability of the computer to process the information in a timely manner,” Wanner said.

A preliminary investigation of the accident, released in August 2009 by the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board, states that the probable cause of the crash was the flight crew's failure to ensure that the plane's flaps and slats were extended for takeoff.

Contributing to the accident was the absence of electrical power to the airplane's takeoff warning system, which did not warn the flight crew that the airplane was not configured properly for takeoff, the report states. The reason for the absence of electrical power could not be determined.

The incident should highlight the importance of ensuring that control systems used to prevent, detect and correct issues are operating correctly, Wanner wrote in a blog post Sunday.

“In information security, the stakes are rarely so high as human lives, but failures in controls often lead to unexpected consequences,” Wanner wrote. “A misconfigured firewall rule allowing more permissive access to systems, a false negative in an IDS [intrusion detection system] or IPS [intrusion prevention system], a user violating policy by plugging in a personal USB stick, etc. The moral of the story is: Don't take your control systems and processes for granted. Audit and test them regularly.”

A judge has ordered Spanair to provide all computer logs from the days before and after the crash. The final report from crash investigators is due in December.

Meanwhile, mobile media infections are common and will continue to surface as long as unverified external media are permitted into control systems, Wanner said. In 2008, for example, a virus made its way onto laptop computers used at the international space station due to an infected removable media device.

And just last month, control systems manufacturer Siemens warned customers that the Stuxnet malware was spreading via infected USB devices to penetrate industrial control systems. :P

[Dig]

They are running version 3 of this drill RIGHT NOW!

CYBER STORM I

2006

Pentagon Runs Military Drill where:
Energy utilities, Transportation, Communications are attacked by anti-globalization hackers
http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Journalists_bloggers_are_threats_in_terror_0131.html
Associated Press Published: Thursday January 31, 2008

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[NOTE: Notice the 1's and 0's in the logo?]

It's the government's idea of a really bad day: Washington's Metro trains shut down. Seaport computers in New York go dark. Bloggers reveal locations of railcars with hazardous materials. Airport control towers are disrupted in Philadelphia and Chicago. Overseas, a mysterious liquid is found on London's subway.



And that's just for starters.

Those incidents were among dozens of detailed, mock disasters confronting officials rapid-fire in the U.S. government's biggest-ever "Cyber Storm" war game, according to hundreds of pages of heavily censored files obtained by The Associated Press. The Homeland Security Department ran the exercise to test the nation's hacker defenses, with help from the State Department, Pentagon, Justice Department, CIA, National Security Agency and others.



The laundry list of fictional catastrophes which include hundreds of people on "No Fly" lists suddenly arriving at airport ticket counters is significant because it suggests what kind of real-world trouble keeps people in the White House awake at night.

Imagined villains include hackers, bloggers and even reporters. After mock electronic attacks overwhelmed computers at the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, an unspecified "major news network" airing reports about the attackers refused to reveal its sources to the government. Other simulated reporters were duped into spreading "believable but misleading" information that worsened fallout by confusing the public and financial markets, according to the government's files. The $3 million, invitation-only war game simulated what the U.S. described as plausible attacks over five days in February 2006 against the technology industry, transportation lines and energy utilities by anti-globalization hackers. The government is organizing another multimillion-dollar war game, Cyber Storm 2, to take place in early March. "They point out where your expectations of your capabilities may be overstated," Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff told the AP. "They may reveal to you things you haven't thought about. It's a good way of testing that you're going to do the job the way you think you were. It's the difference between doing drills and doing a scrimmage." The AP obtained the Cyber Storm internal records nearly two years after it requested them under the Freedom of Information Act. The government censored most of the 328 pages it turned over, marked "For Official Use Only," citing rules preventing the disclosure of sensitive information. "Definitely a challenging scenario," said Scott C. Algeier, who runs a cyber-defense group for leading technology companies, the Information Technology Information Sharing and Analysis Center. For the participants including government officials from the United States, England, Canada, Australia and New Zealand and executives from leading technology and transportation companies the mock disasters came fast and furious: Hacker break-ins at an airline; stolen commercial software blueprints; problems with satellite navigation systems; trouble with police radios in Montana; school closures in Washington, Miami and New York; computer failures at border checkpoints.

The incidents were divided among categories: computer attacks, physical attacks or psychological operations.

"We want to stress these players," said Jeffrey Wright, the former Cyber Storm director for the Homeland Security Department. "None of the players took 100 percent of the correct, right actions. If they had, we wouldn't have done our job as planners." How did they do? Reviews were mixed. Companies and governments worked successfully in some cases. But key players didn't understand the role of the premier U.S. organization responsible for fending off major cyber attacks, called the National Cyber Response Coordination Group, and it didn't have enough technical experts.



Also, the sheer number of mock attacks complicated defensive efforts. The little-known Cyber Response group, headed by the departments of Justice and Homeland Security, represents the largest U.S. government departments including law enforcement and intelligence agencies and is the principal organization for responding to cyber attacks and recovering from them. The exercise had no impact on the real Internet. Officials said they were careful to simulate attacks only using isolated computers, working from basement offices at the Secret Service's headquarters in downtown Washington.



However, the government's files hint at a tantalizing mystery: In the middle of the war game, someone quietly attacked the very computers used to conduct the exercise. Perplexed organizers traced the incident to overzealous players and sent everyone an urgent e-mail marked "IMPORTANT!" reminding them not to probe or attack the game computers.



"Any time you get a group of (information technology) experts together, there's always a desire, 'Let's show them what we can do,'" said George Foresman, a former senior Homeland Security official who oversaw Cyber Storm. "Whether its intent was embarrassment or a prank, we had to temper the enthusiasm of the players."

This video is from The Associated Press, broadcast January 31, 2008.


http://www.rawprint.com/media/2008/0802/ap_bloggers_cyberstorm_threat_080131a.flv

CYBERSTORM I
THIS IS A DRILL
THIS IS A FALSE FLAG OPERATION IN THE MAKING
JUST LIKE WHEN THEY RAN DRILLS OF A PLANE HITTING THE PENTAGON

[Pentagon crash drill, Oct. 24-26, 2000]
THIS IS LIVE FREE OR DIE HARD FIRE SALE
WILL FULL PENTAGON AUTHORITY TO CARRY OUT THESE ATTACK ON THE US POPULATION
HOW INSANE ARE THESE PSYCHOPATHS?

SCENARIOS THE PENTAGON IS CREATING IN CYBER STORM I

Imagined villains include hackers, bloggers and even reporters. After mock electronic attacks overwhelmed computers at the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, an unspecified "major news network" airing reports about the attackers refused to reveal its sources to the government.

Other simulated reporters were duped into spreading "believable but misleading" information that worsened fallout by confusing the public and financial markets, according to the government's files.

The $3 million, invitation-only war game simulated what the U.S. described as plausible attacks over five days in February 2006 against the technology industry, transportation lines and energy utilities by anti-globalization hackers. The government is organizing another multimillion-dollar war game, Cyber Storm 2, to take place in early March. "They point out where your expectations of your capabilities may be overstated," Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff told the AP. "They may reveal to you things you haven't thought about. It's a good way of testing that you're going to do the job the way you think you were. It's the difference between doing drills and doing a scrimmage." The AP obtained the Cyber Storm internal records nearly two years after it requested them under the Freedom of Information Act. The government censored most of the 328 pages it turned over, marked "For Official Use Only," citing rules preventing the disclosure of sensitive information. "Definitely a challenging scenario," said Scott C. Algeier, who runs a cyber-defense group for leading technology companies, the Information Technology Information Sharing and Analysis Center. For the participants including government officials from the United States, England, Canada, Australia and New Zealand and executives from leading technology and transportation companies the mock disasters came fast and furious: Hacker break-ins at an airline; stolen commercial software blueprints; problems with satellite navigation systems; trouble with police radios in Montana; school closures in Washington, Miami and New York; computer failures at border checkpoints.


Why is the US government running multimillion dollar, multi-national, and multi-thousands of personnel drills to set up the blaming of people who believe in protecting the United States government in the face of international attacks on our financial security? Why are they conditioning the Secret Service and the highest levels of our military to view people who are protecting the sovereignty of the United States of America as the enemy? This is fricking bizarro world!

More on Cyber Storm I:

http://current.com/entertainment/88830245_government-plays-cyber-storm-war-game-to-test-nations-defenses.htm
http://cryptome.org/cyberstorm.pdf
http://www.dhs.gov/xlibrary/assets/prep_cyberstormreport_sep06.pdf
http://www.securityfocus.com/brief/303
http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Security/Feds-Deem-Operation-Cyber-Storm-a-Success/
http://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-08-825

Cyber Storm II: http://fcw.com/articles/2008/02/29/cyber-storm-ii-stirring.aspx

http://www.blacklistednews.com/?news_id=10719

This is the image of their drill "logo"...notice any 1's or 0's?

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I can see the narratives already from Robert Gates, Def Sec: "Well you know we cannot monitor and control every 1 and every 0 with the present budget and all of the FREEDOMS that people still think they have a right to."

October 10, 2010
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IT IS BINARY, THEY WANT TO DO SOMETHING SO WE ARE ALL REMINDED THAT EVEN ONE KEYSTROKE OF BINARY CODE MEANS YOU ARE A TERRORIST! This is illuminati 101 just like 911, the emergency number. Now they own the term 911. So they want to own all binary code. Where have we seen 101010 like wallpaper all over? Maybe the Rockefeller Foundation Report for Social  Conflict?

But to all the nutcase Bilderbergers and Trilateral Terrorists...no one is going to believe your bullshit anymore. Abort your insane plans, just stop terrorizing everyone. Why the hell hasn't DHS issued an alert for 10-10-10 knowing about the green nazi video with the exploding children mentioning 10-10-10 as their rally date?

What happened before 9/11? What is this all about?

U.S. Military Lowered Its Computer Security Level the Night Before 9/11/2001
http://forum.prisonplanet.com/index.php?topic=187584.0

[citizenx]

All right.  I know Debkafile is heavy-duty propaganda -- all the more reason why I wonder what this piece is all about:

Russian experts flee Iran, escape dragnet for cyber worm smugglers
 
DEBKAfile Exclusive Report October 3, 2010, 1:13 PM (GMT+02:00)

 ...debkafile's intelligence sources report from Iran that dozens of Russian nuclear engineers, technicians and contractors are hurriedly departing Iran for home since local intelligence authorities began rounding up their compatriots as suspects of planting the Stuxnet malworm into their nuclear program.
Among them are the Russian personnel who built Iran's first nuclear reactor at Bushehr which Tehran admits has been damaged by the virus.
One of the Russian nuclear staffers, questioned in Moscow Sunday, Oct. 3 by Western sources, confirmed that many of his Russian colleagues had decided to leave with their families after team members were detained for questioning at the beginning of last week. He refused to give his name because he and his colleagues intend to return to Iran if the trouble blows over and the detainees are quickly released after questioning.

According to our sources, these detentions were the source of the announcement Saturday, Oct. 2, by Iranian Intelligence Minister Heidar Moslehi that several "nuclear spies" had been captured. "The enemy had sent electronic worms through the internet to undermine Iran's nuclear activities," he said. This was the first high-level Iranian admission that the Stuxnet virus had been planted by foreign elements to sabotage their entire nuclear program - and not just the Bushehr reactor. The comprehensive scale of the damage is attested to by the detention of Russian nuclear experts also at Natanz, Isfahan and Tehran.

continued (FWIW):
http://www.debka.com/article/9061/

[Dig]

All right.  I know Debkafile is heavy-duty propaganda -- all the more reason why I wonder what this piece is all about:

Russian experts flee Iran, escape dragnet for cyber worm smugglers
 
DEBKAfile Exclusive Report October 3, 2010, 1:13 PM (GMT+02:00)

 ...debkafile's intelligence sources report from Iran that dozens of Russian nuclear engineers, technicians and contractors are hurriedly departing Iran for home since local intelligence authorities began rounding up their compatriots as suspects of planting the Stuxnet malworm into their nuclear program.
Among them are the Russian personnel who built Iran's first nuclear reactor at Bushehr which Tehran admits has been damaged by the virus.
One of the Russian nuclear staffers, questioned in Moscow Sunday, Oct. 3 by Western sources, confirmed that many of his Russian colleagues had decided to leave with their families after team members were detained for questioning at the beginning of last week. He refused to give his name because he and his colleagues intend to return to Iran if the trouble blows over and the detainees are quickly released after questioning.

According to our sources, these detentions were the source of the announcement Saturday, Oct. 2, by Iranian Intelligence Minister Heidar Moslehi that several "nuclear spies" had been captured. "The enemy had sent electronic worms through the internet to undermine Iran's nuclear activities," he said. This was the first high-level Iranian admission that the Stuxnet virus had been planted by foreign elements to sabotage their entire nuclear program - and not just the Bushehr reactor. The comprehensive scale of the damage is attested to by the detention of Russian nuclear experts also at Natanz, Isfahan and Tehran.

continued (FWIW):
http://www.debka.com/article/9061/

Cyber Storm Drill Actual Wording:

Other simulated reporters were duped into spreading "believable but misleading" information that worsened fallout by confusing the public and financial markets, according to the government's files.

[citizenx]

Given the reports of Russian "saboteur" patsies (previous psyop from ealry Sept. being made public now), I think you are right.