links of the day 02/26/2014 (a.m.)

• ABA asks NSA how it handles attorney-client privileged information in intelligence work « ABA News Archives

• Zeus variant hit Software-as-a-service applications

  "The SaaS Security firm vendor Adallom, detected a malware-based campaign against Salesforce.com users, the Zeus variant used implements the web crawling capabilities to grab sensitive business data from the CRM. The attacks originated from Salesforce employee’s home computer, this variant of Zeus trojan crawled the site and created a real-time copy of the user’s Salesforce.com instance that included all the company account data. “We’ve been internally referring to this type of attack as “landmining”, since the attackers laid “landmines” on unmanaged devices used by employees to access company resources. The attackers, now bypassing traditional security measures, wait for the user to connect to *.my.salesforce.com in order to exfiltrate company data from the user’s Salesforce instance.” reported the official post issued mt Adallom. Experts at Adallom discovered the campaign because noted approximately 2GB of data been downloaded to the victim’s computer in a few minutes, the malware authors exploited Zeus Web inject capabilities for the purpose of data harvesting and exfiltration."

• NIST Tech Beat for February 25, 2014

• A Snapshot: 6 Rorschach Tests on the State of the International Order | Brookings Institution

• Ominous CBO Report Triggers Congressional Inaction

• The Danger of the New Internet Choke Points | Internet Society

• Massachusetts Joins New Jersey In Demanding Police Warrants For Cell Phone Tracking

• Why NSA Spying On The German Chancellor's Aides Matters | Bustle

• 7 Strangest Holidays Celebrated Across The World

• Snowden 2.0: Is There A New Active Duty NSA Whistleblower?

• Rules To Limit Marketing Unhealthy Food In Schools

• UN Official: Israel Guilty Of ‘Inhuman’ And ‘Degrading’ Apartheid

• Secretive Netflix-Comcast Deal Destroys Promise Of Net Neutrality

• The Truth Behind Lazarenko’s Assets Recovery | Anticorruption Action Center

• Центр Протидії Корупції

• Robot cops take over streets of Kinshasa to tackle traffic chaos - CNN.com

• GM crops: European scientists descend on Africa to promote biotech | Global development | theguardian.com

• Fed knew about Libor rigging in 2008 - Telegraph

• 'Haags' kapitaal zoon Janoekovitsj onder vuur - Europa Nu

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• EU-akkoord over aanpak crimineel geld - Europa Nu

• Caphaw Banking Malware Distributed via YouTube Ads - The Hacker News

• First Tor-Based Android Malware Spotted in the Wild - The Hacker News

  "The Android Malware dubbed as 'Backdoor.AndroidOS.Torec.a', using Tor hidden service protocol for stealth communication with Command-and-Control servers. Researchers detected that the Trojan is running from .Onion Tor domain and working on the functionality of an open source Tor client for Android mobile devices, called 'Orbot', thus eliminating the threat of the botnet being detected and blocked by law enforcement authorities, although often it's not clear how many devices has been infected by this malware till now. "

• Russia To Add "Stealth" Subs To Mediterranean Force

• Google Translate

• Russian Ships Carrying Soldiers Said To Be En Route To Sevastopol

• BlackListedNews.com

• “WhatsApp Tricks” Apps Subscribe Android Users to Premium Mobile Services

• Cybersecurity Framework: What’s Next? - DataBreachToday

• Absolute Computrace Revisited - Securelist

• 5 Best WhatsApp alternatives with end-to-end Encryption - The Hacker News

• Silent Circle's Blackphone - Privacy and Security Focused Smartphone for $629 - The Hacker News

• Hackers can use common anti-theft tool to wipe devices remotely | ITProPortal.com

• Anonymous targets 'Facebook Pedophiles' POSTs forces Facebook to take them down | TechWorm

• U.N. Office Criticizes Australia Detention Policies - NYTimes.com

• New iOS flaw makes devices susceptible to covert keylogging, researchers say | Ars Technica

• New data reveals extent of the malware problem

• Information Security | Compliance | Trustwave

• Search for compromised credentials | Support | Trustwave

• Search for compromised Bitcoin addresses | Support | Trustwave

• BBC News - Egypt interim government resigns unexpectedly

• BBC News - Crimea: Next flashpoint in Ukraine's crisis?

• The real reason behind the confiscation of my passport | Islam21c

• Breach Level Index | Data Breach Database & Risk Assessment Calculator

• Pirate sites reportedly generate a whopping $227 million a year in ad revenue | Tech String

• Tech String | Tech Updates and more…

• BitcoinRichList - Charts

• Distribution of bitcoin wealth by owner

• A lot can happen in few years. You can go from the vice president of engineering for Yahoo, to a guy looking for a job at Facebook, to a startup founder, to a guy that just sold that startup to Facebook for a jaw-dropping $US19 billion. And that’s exactly

• Not only is WhatsApp huge, it’s been growing like crazy. Right now, it has about 450 million users. And if you look at its growth curve compared to other popular services like Gmail, you can see why Facebook is willing to pay $US19 billion for the company

• Apparent Theft at Mt. Gox Shakes Bitcoin World - NYTimes.com

• ECB: New report on card fraud shows online fraud increased in 2012

• One-Time Bitcoin Exchange Giant Mt. Gox Collapses Amid Insolvency, Trading Allegedly Suspended | Entrepreneur.com

• MtGox Situation: Crisis Strategy Draft

• Mt. Gox, once the world’s largest Bitcoin exchange, shuts down | Ars Technica

• Major bitcoin exchange is insolvent, companies say - The Washington Post

• Mt. Gox CEO Mark Karpeles Resigns from Bitcoin Foundation Board

• Google Paraguay Hijacked via NIC.py Hack

• I was invited to a meeting at the Federal Reserve, and these are the 4 predictions I made. — Articulate Ventures

• Fiatleak - watch the world's currencies flow into BTC in realtime

• Strategic Europe - Carnegie Europe

• How Ukraine Destroyed the Myth of Russia’s Great Power - Carnegie Europe

• Episode 5 | WikiLeaks World Tomorrow

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• Welcome | CAGE

• Charred bodies of the wounded found in remains of burnt Trade Union building | Voices of Ukraine

• CNN Video - Breaking News Videos from CNN.com

• Eyewitness Account: Peaceful March Turned Bloody | Euromaidan PR

• How Covert Agents Infiltrate the Internet to Manipulate, Deceive, and Destroy Reputations - The Intercept

• Conspiracy Theories by Cass R. Sunstein, Adrian Vermeule :: SSRN

• Index of /books/vonnegut

• Robert Reich: WhatsApp is everything wrong with the U.S. economy - Salon.com

• Dwangsom dreigt voor privacyschending WhatsApp - Tech & Media - VK

• Telegram (Android) - Download

• Arizona passes law allowing shopkeepers to refuse to serve gay people

• Harriet Harman admits paedophile group joined her civil liberties group in the 1970s

• The Ukrainian oligarchs living it large in London - Telegraph

• Publications | Centre for International Governance Innovation

• Anonymous in Context: The Politics and Power behind the Mask

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