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Cybercriminals Ramp Up Activity Ahead of 2014 World Cup
wiredmikey (1824622) writes With the FIFA World Cup 2014 kicking off this week in Brazil, cybercriminals and scammers are working hard to take advantage of visitors to the World Cup in Brazil and those following the world soccer tournament online. In recent months, several security vendors have published advisories about the various scams, phishing and malware operations that target Internet users interested in the World Cup. While individuals from all over the world have been targeted, many of the malicious campaigns focus on Brazil and neighboring South American countries. While news that cybercriminals are zoning in on a large global event is no surprise, the scale and tactics being used is quite wide in scope, ranging from malware distribution and phishing scams, to fraudulent ticket sales, spam and other promising yet fraudulent schemes.For those visiting Brazil to watch the games in person, the cyber threats also include rogue wireless access points, ATMs rigged with card skimmers and Point-of-Sale malware.
Brazil isn't quite "first world." They may be soccer fans, but they are rabid, brutal, dismembering, beheading, soccer fans. This is something FIFA from which should stay as far away as possible.
Would anyone think selecting any African nation as a site for the world cup is a good idea? Brazil was a bad idea for similar reasons. "Bad Neighborhood."
What is a "bad neighborhood" or "bad area?" We seem to try to avoid a glaringly obvious issue by blaming the surroundings instead of the people. "Don't go into that bad area!" Is it the area that's bad? Is the the land? The flora? No. It's the people. Don't go around bad people! And this is where things become much more clear and clear why people seek to avoid the obvious. It's RACISM!
People need to give up linguistic obfuscation as a means of avoiding the truth. How many times will we change the word we use to avoid saying what we think? We went from negros all manner of other terms, which at the time were okay to say, but before long was recognized as offensive due to the meaning adaptation and then we moved on to another word meaning the same thing. Seriously -- how many words do we use to identify black people and of those which were intended to be "nice words" became bad ones? How did that happen? "Colored people?" Once good, now bad. Can't say that but the NAACP didn't change its name. This isn't really about black people, this is just an example supporting my rant on linguistic obfuscation.
Linguistic obfuscation is a way of avoiding and confusing the truth of a situation. What we're dealing with is a mass of people who do not behave well. And while no mass of people behaves well, white or otherwise, there are varying degrees which are clear to the observer -- very clear.
A problem cannot be solved, resolved, avoided or even mitigated by avoiding or denying the causes.
I would seriously love it if we could all get along and live together. I really would. I don't hate anyone because of what they look like. I hate the behavior as it is not conducive to the peace and harmony I want for all of humanity. But we can't have it without a common subscription to an understanding of what mutual respect means and how well we live our lives in accordance with that understanding. Different cultures/religions/peoples bring disparate understandings to the whole and that causes problems. If they can't be re-/solved, they must be contained. Otherwise we're inviting peaceful people in to mingle with non-peaceful people, and the obvious will occur as it has every single time in the past.
FIFA blew it. They selected a "bad area." And by that, I mean they selected the wrong people to host the event. THE WRONG PEOPLE. I'm not going to hide behind linguistic obfuscation. The Wrong People.
That's a thought for the day... the week.. keep at it.