https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2019/07/20/russian-intelligence-has-been-hacked-with-social-media-and-tor-projects-exposed/

Russia's Secret Intelligence Agency Hacked: 'Largest Data Breach In Its History'

Red faces in Moscow this weekend, with the news that hackers have successfully targeted FSB—Russia's Federal Security Service. The hackers managed to steal 7.5 terabytes of data from a major contractor, exposing secret FSB projects to de-anonymize Tor browsing, scrape social media, and help the state split its internet off from the rest of the world. The data was passed to mainstream media outlets for publishing.

A week ago, on July 13, hackers under the name 0v1ru$ reportedly breached SyTech, a major FSB contractor working on a range of live and exploratory internet projects. With the data stolen, 0v1ru$ left a smiling Yoba Face on SyTech's homepage alongside pictures purporting to showcase the breach. 0v1ru$ then passed the data itself to the larger hacking group Digital Revolution, which shared the files with various media outlets and the headlines with Twitter—taunting FSB that the agency should maybe rename one of its breached activities "Project Collander."

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/18/nyregion/el-chapo-has-disappeared-is-he-at-the-supermax.html

El Chapo Disappeared for Two Days. Now He’s at the Supermax

After being sentenced to life in prison, the drug lord was whisked away in secret. Two days later, he arrived at the United States’ highest security prison.

Throughout his long and bloody career, the drug kingpin known as El Chapo has proved to be a master of escape, breaking out of two Mexican prisons to continue his reign leading the Sinaloa cartel.

Within hours of being sentenced to life in prison on Wednesday, the notorious Mexican crime lord, Joaquín Guzmán Loera, was whisked away from a federal jail in Manhattan and transferred to an undisclosed location, his lawyers said.

Mr. Guzman’s whereabouts remained a mystery for two days, even for his lawyers. But late Friday afternoon, the Bureau of Prisons confirmed that Mr. Guzmán had been taken to the nation’s most forbidding federal prison, the United States Penitentiary Administrative Maximum Facility, or ADX, in Florence, Colo.

The intense secrecy surrounding Mr. Guzmán’s transfer to another prison reflected the anxiety over his Houdini-like ability to engineer escapes in the past and the deep financial resources at the disposal of the cartel. (Prosecutors say a “conservative” estimate of Mr. Guzmán’s career earnings is about $12.7 billion.)

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Mr. Guzmán had been last seen being escorted from Federal District Court in Brooklyn by United States marshals at about 10:20 a.m. on Wednesday, after Judge Brian M. Cogan sentenced him to life in prison plus 30 years on murder, drug and money laundering charges.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-cyber/nsa-contractor-sentenced-to-prison-for-huge-theft-of-classified-us-data-idUSKCN1UE2NV

NSA contractor sentenced to prison for huge theft of classified U.S. data

A former National Security Agency contractor was sentenced in Maryland to nine years in prison on Friday for stealing huge amounts of classified material from U.S. intelligence agencies over two decades though officials never found proof he shared it with anyone.

Harold Martin, 54, also received three years of supervised release from U.S. District Judge Richard Bennett in Baltimore after pleading guilty to willful retention of national defense information, the Justice Department said in a statement.

In what officials have called perhaps the biggest breach of U.S. classified information on record, Martin was accused of stealing from the NSA, CIA, U.S. Cyber Command and National Reconnaissance Office starting in 1996. The data he was accused of stealing included 2014 NSA reports detailing intelligence information “regarding foreign cyber issues” that contained targeting information and “foreign cyber intrusion techniques.”

The list of pilfered documents also included an NSA user’s guide for an intelligence-gathering tool and a 2007 file with details about specific daily operations, the indictment against him said.

“Instead of respecting the trust given to him by the American people, Martin violated that trust and put our nation’s security at risk,” Assistant Attorney General John Demers said. “This sentence will hold Mr. Martin accountable for his dangerous and unlawful actions.”

Prosecutors have said Martin’s actions risked the disclosure of top secret information to America’s enemies. One of their allegations was that Martin talked online with people in Russian and other languages but they never found proof he shared stolen information with anyone.

His defense team portrayed him as an eccentric hoarder. Martin’s attorney could not immediately be reached for comment.

From 1993 to 2016, Martin was employed with at least seven firms and was assigned as a contractor to work in several government agencies, the Justice Department said.

His positions, which involved work on highly classified projects involving government computer systems, gave him various security clearances that routinely provided him access to top-secret information, it said.

The government has not said what, if anything, Martin did with the highly sensitive material that, according to the court documents, he hoarded at his home in Glen Burnie, Maryland and his vehicle.

Martin was working for Booz Allen Hamilton Holding Corp when he was taken into custody in 2016. Booz Allen also had employed Edward Snowden, who leaked a trove of secret files to news organizations in 2013 that exposed vast domestic and international surveillance operations carried out by the NSA.

When FBI agents raided Martin’s home south of Baltimore they found stacks of documents and electronic storage devices amounting to 50 terabytes of files, according to prosecutors.

https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/dismissal-and-investigation-by-rcmp-of-winnipeg-co-inventor-of-ebola-drug-stuns-colleagues

Dismissal and investigation by RCMP of Winnipeg co-inventor of Ebola drug stuns colleagues

In the U.S., at least, security agencies have recently put a magnifying glass on researchers and students with ties to China, amid espionage fears

Heinz Feldmann has known and worked with Xiangguo Qiu for years, and to this day says he has nothing but respect for his fellow microbiologist.

Indeed, Qiu won global accolades for her part in developing an experimental new drug for treating Ebola virus, most of the inquiry done at her high-security lab in Winnipeg.

So Feldmann says he was taken aback Monday to see a media report that the scientist and her entire research team, all from China, had been escorted out of the federal government’s National Microbiology Laboratory (NML) last week and reported to the RCMP.

“I still hope that this is a big misunderstanding,” said the former head of the lab’s special pathogens program, where Qiu worked. “She is a great researcher, she has been a great collaborator, she has been a great interacter in the field. I can’t say anything bad about her.”

Feldmann, now chief of the U.S. National Institutes of Health laboratory of virology in Montana, stressed that he had no personal knowledge of the reported events.

CBC-TV said that Qiu, as well as husband and NML scientist Keding Cheng and her students had been forcibly dispatched from the facility on July 5, a fact the National Post could not independently confirm.

Eric Morrissette, a spokesman for the Public Health Agency of Canada, would not comment on whether she had been dismissed, citing privacy concerns.

But he said the agency is looking into an “administrative matter,” and advised the RCMP on May 24 of “possible policy breaches” at the lab.

The organization is “taking steps to resolve it expeditiously,” said Morrissette in a statement. “There is no employee from the NML under arrest or confined to their home.”

He also said the public is not at risk and that the work of the lab continues.

An RCMP spokesman confirmed to Reuters news agency it had received a referral from the agency, but refused to comment on its investigation. A University of Manitoba spokesman told Reuters that Qiu’s non-paying adjunct professorship had been suspended “pending an RCMP investigation.”

With the government releasing so few details, it is unclear what might be behind the unusual episode.

>>7119393

>a former paramedic

>>7119393

https://www.newsweek.com/florida-man-pleads-guilty-filming-himself-having-sex-1-year-old-daughter-1382024

Florida Man Pleads Guilty to Posting Videos of Himself Sexually Abusing 1-Year-Old Daughter on Dark Web

Months after his arrest, James Lockhart pleaded guilty to three charges related to creating and distributing pornography of his 1-year-old daughter.

As part of a plea agreement, Lockhart, 31, pleaded guilty to producing, distributing and possessing child pornography on Thursday. He faces up to 70 years in prison and a fine of more than $750,000, according to the agreement.

Between March 2016 and February 2018, the Department of Justice (DOJ) said Lockhart created and distributed sex-abuse photographs and videos of the one-year-old girl. Using the online moniker "Strangewood" and "Hardwood," Lockhart posted the graphics on a dark web forum. He also posted messages on the forum asking if anyone had any "requests" for pictures and videos.

The images showed Lockhart sexually abusing the female victim, whose face was partially blurred but still indicated she was "under duress," according to the DOJ. He also produced a four-video series of the abuse, which showed the victim crying and screaming.

Along with the videos he created, authorities found at least 43 videos and 4,000 images of child pornography.

Lockhart's arrest came from an investigation code-named "Operation Test Pilot," during which Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) agents attempted to infiltrate high-level child pornography rings and websites, a criminal complaint said. The international investigation led officers to discover the user "Strangewood" posting extremely graphic and violent images and videos on the forums.

After discovering the username belonged to Lockhart, HSI agents obtained a search warrant for his home and while there, spoke to his wife and the mother of his two children, a boy and a girl. When shown a sanitized image of the 1-year-old taken from one of the videos, Lockhart's wife identified the girl as her daughter. She also identified the man's hand in the video as her husband's.

The plea agreement also required Lockhart to cooperate fully with investigations and prosecutions of other people and to testify in connection with charges in his case and other matters. A sentencing date has not been set, yet.

The case was part of the DOJ initiative, Project Safe Childhood, which was launched in 2006, and is a unified and comprehensive strategy to combat child exploitation. Since its launch, the DOJ said the number of defendants prosecuted by United States Attorney's Offices increased by 40 percent.

When it comes to crimes involving the sexual exploitation of children, the DOJ said there is often an international dimension to the crimes. In Lockhart's case, investigating the crime included the assistance of the Queensland Police Service in Australia.

https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1155891/michelle-obama-news-donald-trump-us-presidential-elections-oprah-winfrey-piers-morgan

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'Balls of steel' Michelle Obama can beat Trump in 2020 election, says Piers Morgan

Donald Trump has started his campaign trail as he looks to be elected for a second term as US President in the White House. Earlier this week, the former First Lady was named as the most admired woman in the world in 2019, replacing Hollywood actress and humanitarian Angelia Jolie at the top of a YouGov poll which interviewed 42,000 people from 41 countries. Mrs Obama also savaged Mr Trump after more controversial tweets caused worldwide condemnation, telling him the US was everyone’s, regardless “where we are born”.

She was responding to comments the US President made on Twitter telling the likes of Somalian-born Democrat Ilhan Omar, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ayanna Pressley and Rashida Tlaib to “go back” to their “broken and crime infested” countries.

Writing on Twitter, she said: "What truly makes our country great is its diversity.

"I’ve seen that beauty in so many ways over the years.

"Where we are born here or seek refuge here, there’s a place for us all.

“We must remember it’s not my America or your America.

"It’s our America.”

Now Mr Morgan has claimed the former First Lady and chat show host Oprah Winfrey could be the only two Democrats to unseat Mr Trump as US President.

The television personality, who was the only journalist to be granted an interview with Mr Trump during his state visit of the UK last month, has endorsed Mrs Obama and Mrs Winfrey as possible Presidential contenders.

If you ask me, the two names who can beat him. They would be Michelle Obama or Oprah Winfrey, if they could be persuaded. I'm totally serious

Speaking on BBC’s political programme This Week, he said the Democrats will need star power to be successful in next year’s elections.

Mr Morgan said: "They are going to be in a position that party, when they will be desperate for someone who can actually beat Trump.

“If you ask me, the two names who can beat him. They would be Michelle Obama or Oprah Winfrey, if they could be persuaded. I'm totally serious.

"I think they have the star power, I think they have the television quality that you need to be a candidate these days, I think they have the universal appeal. They've got balls of steel."

Earlier this year, Mrs Obama said she would not run for President because she was "not interested in politics" and no longer lived a normal life.

Oprah Winfrey’s partner Stedman Graham has poured cold water over speculation of her running in the presidential elections.

He told ITV's Good Morning Britain, the show which Mr Morgan co-hosts: "She is not divided by parties, she has the ability to move in and out all different circles.

“It doesn't make a lot of sense to run for presidency because she can do so much more.”

>>7119471

>Balls of steel

>>7119485

Memes are hunter killer torpedoes weaving through the sea of low-quality information in our shared mind space to destroy low quality ideas

>>7119502

What's the pine-cone about, fruit of knowledge?

>>7119495

>The best things to do in N.Y.C. during the hottest season of the year.

>>7119485

>Ultimate Spinach

1. Gilded Lamp of the Cosmos 0:00

2. Visions of Your Reality 3:04

3. Jazz Thing 8:59

4. Mind Flowers 15:42

5. Where You're At 25:23

6. Suite: Genesis of Beauty (In Four Parts) 28:40

7. Fifth Horsemen of the Apocalypse 38:30

8. Fragmentary March of the Apocalypse 44:32

>>7119536

>outer Space

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heliosphere

>>7119557

What event was this?

>>7119592

song for anons

Former first lady Michelle Obama added her voice Friday to the Democratic outcry following President Donald Trump’s attack on four ethnic minority congresswomen, saying “there’s a place for all of us.”

“What truly makes our country great is its diversity… Whether we are born here or seek refuge here, there’s a place for all of us,” Obama tweeted, without mentioning Trump.

“We must remember it’s not my America or your America. It’s our America.”

Trump has come under intense fire after he attacked four first-term Democratic congresswomen known as the “Squad.”

In a rare move, the Democratic-controlled House of Representatives on Tuesday rebuked Trump for “racist comments” after he said the four should “go back” to their countries of origin if they are not happy in the United States.

But chants of “Send her back!” directed at Somali-born congresswoman Ilhan Omar broke out at Trump’s “Make America Great Again” rally in Greenville, North Carolina on Wednesday night. Trump claimed to reporters in the Oval Office the following day that he was not pleased by the taunts and attempted to cut them short. Television footage, however, showed he let the chant continue for more than 10 seconds before he resumed speaking.

“Those are incredible people. Those are incredible patriots,” Trump told reporters outside the White House on Friday when asked about the chants. “She’s lucky to be where she is, let me tell you,” he added about Omar.

The first-term lawmakers — all but one of whom, Omar, were born in the United States — are of Hispanic, Arab, Somali and African-American descent. Some Republicans have urged Trump to tone down the rhetoric, but the president has made it clear that attacks on the “Squad” will be a centerpiece of his 2020 re-election strategy — despite the risk of inflaming racial tensions and widening the partisan divide.

>>7119621

>Tlaib decided to address the issue head-on in an op-ed for the Free Press.

https://www.freep.com/story/opinion/contributors/2016/08/24/rashida-tlaib-why-disrupted-donald-trump/89251860/

>>7119670

>Pres of Mexico is nervous

he related to that Salinas dude worshipping Raniere?

Could you bore a tunnel underwater through seabed with Elon's devices for submarines to cross panama (for example)? Or would that collapse super fast.

I'm not a water doctor.

>>7119700