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Is There a War on Police or a War on Us?

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“According to the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund, 38 cops have been shot dead in America this year. Balko further notes that this number includes ‘at least one suicide and two cases in which a cop was shot by another cop.’ The 2015 gun-related deaths of police, Balko relates, are among the least of any year from the last nearly 150 years of data.  Meanwhile, the Washington Post reported on December 26 an assessment that police shot dead nearly 1,000 people this year, and Mapping Police Violence calculated that, through December 15, police killed, at least 1,152 people this year in America.”

http://ronpaulinstitute.org/archives/peace-and-prosperity/2015/december/29/is-there-a-war-on-police-or-a-war-on-us/

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Police Officers Took 1,196 American Lives in 2015

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“It is important to note that this number only includes the reported killings.  Most police misconduct goes entirely unreported.  For all anybody knows, the actual number could be anywhere between 2,000-3,000.  At least 27% of the people killed by police were suffering from mental illness, and instead of getting the help they needed, they were exterminated.  On the other hand, the number of police officers who were killed by gunfire has dropped dramatically — a nearly 15% reduction compared to previous years.  It is therefore puzzling as to why cops and their mainstream media lapdogs continue to insist that there is a ‘War on Cops’ in America.”

http://filmingcops.com/police-officers-took-1196-american-lives-in-2015/

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Americans: ‘Online Surveillance Is O.K. For Most’

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“A majority of Americans say they support warrantless government surveillance of the Internet communications of U.S. citizens, according to a new [AP] poll.  It’s at least somewhat important for the government to sacrifice freedoms to ensure safety, most say in the survey. Majorities both of Republicans (67 percent) and Democrats (55 percent) favor government surveillance of Americans’ Internet activities to watch for suspicious activity that might be connected to terrorism. Independents are more divided, with 40 percent in favor and 35 percent opposed. Only a third of Americans under 30, but nearly two-thirds 30 and older, support warrantless surveillance.”

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_AP_POLL_CIVIL_LIBERTIES_THINGS_TO_KNOW?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2015-12-31-03-37-50#

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NSA Helped British Spies Find Security Holes In Juniper Firewalls

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“A top-secret document dated February 2011 reveals that British spy agency GCHQ, with the knowledge and apparent cooperation of the NSA, acquired the capability to covertly exploit security vulnerabilities in 13 different models of firewalls made by Juniper Networks, a leading provider of networking and Internet security gear.  The six-page document, titled ‘Assessment of Intelligence Opportunity – Juniper,’ raises questions about whether the intelligence agencies were responsible for or culpable in the creation of security holes disclosed by Juniper last week.”

https://theintercept.com/2015/12/23/juniper-firewalls-successfully-targeted-by-nsa-and-gchq/

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TSA Will Stop Accepting Driver’s Licenses From Nine States On Jan. 10

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“A decade ago, Congress passed The Real ID Act which was supposed to make it easier for law enforcement to share information on driver’s licenses issued by the states and territories. Even during a period of heightened fear of terrorism, there was massive and continuing pushback because everyone realized that when the federal government (or any other centralized authority) concentrates information, it just makes it that much easier for it to get hacked or misused (here are 22.1 million examples of the former and one representative example of the latter).  A dozen states actually have laws banning their divisions of motor vehicles from complying with Real ID requirements.”

https://reason.com/blog/2015/12/29/tsa-says-it-will-stop-accepting-drivers

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John Hussman: On the Completion of the Current Market Cycle and Beyond

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“Based on a century of evidence relating the most historically reliable valuation measures to actual subsequent market returns, neither a market plunge of 40-55% over the completion of the current cycle, nor the expectation of zero 10-12 year S&P 500 nominal total returns, nor the likelihood of substantially negative 10-12 year real returns should be viewed as worst-case scenarios. Based on the joint behavior of the most reliable leading economic measures (particularly new orders plus order backlogs, minus inventories), widening credit spreads, and clearly deteriorating market internals, our economic outlook has also moved to a guarded expectation of a U.S. recession.”

http://www.hussmanfunds.com/wmc/wmc151228.htm

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Juniper Networks backdoor confirmed, password revealed, NSA suspected

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“The next mystery to solve is where this unauthorized code comes from. Security advisories usually relate to vulnerabilities arising from defects — mistakes programmers made. In this case, someone deliberately inserted a backdoor password into Juniper’s devices. That’s a huge deal. If it’s the NSA (which looks possible, given one leak about a program called ‘FEEDTROUGH’ that installs persistent backdoors in Juniper devices) then it will mean that the US government deliberately sabotaged tens, if not hundreds, of thousands of networks that were protected by products from a US company that is the second-largest provider of networking equipment in the world, after Cisco.”

https://boingboing.net/2015/12/21/juniper-networks-backdoor-conf.html

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CIA director fumes over teen who hacked his AOL email account

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“The head of the CIA says he was ‘outraged’ by a teenager’s hacking of his personal AOL email account.  Brennan didn’t explain why someone in his position still has an AOL account that a teenager was able to access.  The hacker said he used a reverse phone-number lookup to determine that Brennan has a Verizon Wireless account.  He then called the company, posing as a technician whose ‘tools were down’ to get details about the account, including Brennan’s AOL email address.  With that information, the teen called AOL and convinced a representative to reset the password, using Brennan’s personal details provided by Verizon.”

http://nypost.com/2015/10/27/cia-director-outraged-with-teenager-who-hacked-him/

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Critical Flaws Found in Network Management Systems

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“Four leading network management system providers are busy patching and preparing fixes for a half-dozen critical cross-site scripting and SQL injection vulnerabilities disclosed Wednesday by Rapid7.  Three of the affected vendors, Spiceworks, Ipswitch and Opsview, have already patched their respective products, while Castle Rock Computing has yet to set a timeline for the availability of patches.  These management planes provide enterprises with a view into network activity and performance, and hackers with an attractive attack vector.”

https://threatpost.com/critical-flaws-found-in-network-management-systems/115649/

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Car parking apps vulnerable to man-in-the-middle attacks

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“The next time you need to pay for parking, it might be best to have a handful of coins ready for the meter.  That’s the advice from researchers at NCC Group, who recently dissected 6 mobile apps being used as alternatives to paying with coins or cards at parking meters.  Their findings: nearly all were affected by security vulnerabilities, ‘some more serious than others.’  While the app makers all recognized the need for some form of encryption – after all, these apps send sensitive data such as credit card details and passwords to the server – they’re not necessarily doing it right.”

https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2015/12/15/car-parking-apps-vulnerable-to-man-in-the-middle-attacks/

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